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| Jun 26, 2023 | В США туристку со сломанной ногой спасли благодаря экстренному вызову с iPhone через спутник | Хуана Рейес с командой экстренной службы и «спасительным» смартфоном в руках
Функция экстренной спутниковой связи, представленная Apple в 2022 году, помогла найти и спасти раненую туристку в национальном парке Трейл-Каньон-Фоллс в Калифорни... |
| May 1, 2023 | Canada’s DFO accused of using shoddy science by group of academics | Critics are calling for change at Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) as the agency is facing accusations of disseminating unreliable science.
The DFO was recently in the crosshairs of a parliamentary committee that analyzed t... |
| Apr 9, 2023 | Bitcoin Scammers Impersonate $55M Lottery Winner with Fake Facebook Accounts | Scott Gurney, a recent $55-million lottery winner from Sidney, warns the public not to send him Bitcoin, The Times Colonist reports.
Several bogus Facebook accounts have emerged using his identity to scam people out of money. Since claiming... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Аварийную функцию SOS в iPhone 14 для передачи через спутник считают технологией для спасения жизней | Поисково‑спасательные службы канадской провинции Британская Колумбия спасли двух заблудившихся из‑за снежных бурь женщин благодаря функции SOS в iPhone 14. Как пишет Times Colonist, автомобиль женщин застрял в снегу, а позвонить спасателям ... |
| Jan 28, 2023 | Две женщины в Канаде спаслись благодаря экстренному вызову Apple через спутник | Две женщины в Британской Колумбии смогли спастись благодаря тому, что отправили экстренный вызов SOS с iPhone 14, используя спутниковое соединение. Инцидент произошёл 23 декабря.Поисково-спасательная служба долины Робсон
Женщины возвращалис... |
| Jul 3, 2022 | COVID-19: Third Omicron wave has begun in B.C. and it's expected to grow rapidly | Article content
The third Omicron wave has begun and is expected to increase rapidly and peak in August, says a COVID modelling expert. |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Two suspects dead, six officers injured after shootout at Saanich bank | Article content
Two suspects are dead and six members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team were wounded by gunfire in a shootout at the Bank of Montreal on Shelbourne Street in Saanich Tuesday morning. |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Tiny bear cub wanders into Campbell River home via cat door | Article content
VICTORIA — A tiny bear cub likely separated from its mother and seeking shelter wandered into a Campbell River home via a cat door on Tuesday. |
| May 17, 2022 | Second Omicron wave has peaked: B.C. COVID-19 modelling group | Article content
The sixth wave of COVID-19 that has spread through the province has peaked and started its decline, according to a member of the B.C. COVID-19 modelling group. |
| May 15, 2022 | $1B for Victoria museum could be better spent elsewhere, critics say | Article content
The announcement of a new $789-million provincial museum seemed to come out of the blue in the midst of immediate concerns among citizens about healthcare, say two MLAs who questioned the plan. |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Cruise ship headed to Victoria had 'lots of COVID' on board, passenger says | Article content
VICTORIA — A Canadian passenger aboard the Caribbean Princess said there was “lots of COVID-19” on the cruise ship, which has cancelled its scheduled stops in Victoria and Vancouver this week. |
| Feb 16, 2022 | 👀 9 Victoria tech stories you may have missed | Good afternoon! Welcome to this week’s Midweek Memo, brought to you by Deloitte Ventures. Today, we’re focusing on Victoria, B.C. VIATEC CEO Dan Gunn recently said that 2021 may have been the strongest year for the city’s tech community in ... |
| Nov 7, 2021 | 📰 The $800M SaaS company hiring a new media team | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this week. I invite you to join me and my friends at Switchboard PR for a special Twitter Spaces online show where we’ll share tips for tech companies to tell their story... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | LifeLabs and Its Unionized Workers Come to Tentative 3-Year Agreement After Less Than 48 Hours from Legal Strike Position | Urian B., Tech Times 25 October 2021, 03:10 am
(Photo : Image from Unsplash Website) LifeLabs and Its Unionized Workers Come to Tentative 3-Year Agreement After Less Than 48 Hours from Legal Strike Position
LifeLabs and its own unionized wo... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | British Columbia Woman Gets Record $60K Fine for Getting Bears Killed (by Feeding Them Eggs) | A woman in B.C. has been given the province’s largest ever conservation fine for incessantly feeding eggs to black bears. Police began investigating Zuzana Stevikova and a man named Oliver Dugan in the summer of 2018 after they got a tip th... |
| Aug 6, 2021 | Seafood analog firms attracted USD 70 million in investment first half of 2021 | The seafood analogs sector is getting busier, with increased investments, new product offerings, and expanded distribution.
Investment in plant-based seafood analogs reached USD 70 million (EUR 59 million) in the first half of 2021, accordi... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | A Canadian taxi driver took a drunk New Year’s Day passenger who refused to wear a mask straight to the police station | A Canadian taxi driver took a passenger to the police station when he refused to wear a mask or follow COVID-19 regulations, the Times Colonist reported.
The driver called 911 just after 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day to report that the man was d... |
| Nov 24, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #83 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Fresh off of a $70m raise, Trulioo tapped Zac Cohen as COO. Cohen was formerly GM. “Under hi... |
| May 26, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #64 | In this week's Sunday Briefing, learn about UBC and Huawei's precarious position, Shahrzad Rafati's new job, why B.C.'s ridesharing debate continues to rage on, and where $2.5B in early-stage company financing could come... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | New Data on Sextortion: 124 Additional Public Cases | Content warning: This post contains content that may be upsetting for some readers. Additional warnings are located throughout the document to signal the introduction of disturbing content. Resources for those affected by sextortion are lin... |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Twitter Kills Another Social Media Monitoring Service's Connection To Its Every-Tweet-Ever Feed | Twitter has cut off another social media “surveillance” company from using its API. To date, the platform has forced third-party Dataminr to cut off connections to the CIA, DHS/law enforcement “fusion centers,” and Geofeedia. All of these d... |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Copyright Maximalists And Lobbyists Celebrate Vancouver Aquarium Censoring Critical Documentary With Copyright | We’ve written many times about how copyright is frequently used for censorship, and just recently we wrote about law professor John Tehranian’s excellent article detailing how copyright has a free speech problem, in that people using copyri... |
| Jun 30, 2013 | Crab closures anger B.C. fishermen | Angry Dungeness crab fishermen on British Columbia's North Coast blocked a fisheries office in Prince Rupert, B.C., with their traps Friday over a one-month industry closure staring 5 July.
A Department of Fisheries management plan say... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Meet Genesis Angels, A New $100M Fund For AI And Robotics, Co-Founded By Investor Kenges Rakishev And Chaired By Israel’s Ex-PM | For those startups in newer areas like robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality who complain that VCs are too focused on consumer internet companies, help is at hand: Genesis Angels is a new VC that has raised a fund of aroun... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | FDA flooded with comments on GM salmon | Almost 30,000 comments have poured into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about Canadian genetically modified salmon since the agency announced preliminary assessments found the altered fish pose no significant environmental impact.
The... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Backed by Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners and others, Temple’s licensing revenue hits all-time high [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Salmon activist to be deported from Canada | Anti-fish farm activist Don Staniford is to be deported to Britain days after the conclusion of a 20-day defamation case in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
Staniford is fighting a defamation suit launched by Mainstream Canada, the province... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Biologist: Canadian fish health regs inadequate | Canada’s fish health regulations are not stringent enough to prevent viruses from being imported to West Coast fish farms on Atlantic salmon eggs, says a former high-level provincial government fisheries biologist.
Sally Goldes, fish health... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Marine Harvest cuts 60 jobs in Canada | Aquaculture giant Marine Harvest is cutting up to 60 jobs around the Campbell River area to cut costs as a global product glut pushes down farmed salmon prices.
So far, 20 employees, mainly administrative staff in the company’s Vancouver Is... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | RealNetworks buys Backstage Technologies | GameHouse division gets access to millions of new social gamers
Social gaming is a sizzling hot market right now.
Companies like Zynga reach an estimated 65-plus million users each day. Single titles can be massively popular, like Mafia War... |
