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‘We’re hungry and we want to win:’ fierce competition expected as Silly Boats return to Nanaimo’s waterfront – Nanaimo News NOW

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Money collected from their efforts also goes toward equipment costs for various therapy programs.

A new organizing team is behind this years event, bringing new ideas and some added elements. However, the NCDC ran into a bit of a roadblock a few days out from the event with a number of teams pulling out at the last minute due to a lack of numbers.

Still, the races will be immensely competitive.

In past years, the repeat winner weve had is Superette Foods, Rockall said. Whatever they do to design their boat, they do it really well and theyre a tight rowing team, theyve been repeat winners. Last time, they were knocked off the pedestal by Island Red Cedar Construction, so this year both of those teams are back.

Rockall added a dark horse entering this year may upset the two favourites, however he did not confirm who the team was.

He also said the all-heart Island Radio outfit could make waves in more ways than one.

Ive got high hopes for them, thats one of the teams were looking at closely for sure, people are talking about them.

Shari Sorensen is part of the Superette Foods team which has a strong desire to reassert their recent dominance.

It is so strong, we are starving to regain the championship. Were hungry and we want to win.

When NanaimoNewsNOW, which is affiliated with the Island Radio team, asked for any secrets on what makes the Superette Foods boat so successful, a candid Sorensen only replied with I will divulge nothing.

The building of boats begins at Maffeo Sutton Park at 8 a.m., with entertainment running through the morning ahead of races getting underway at 1 p.m.

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Things to do in Ottawa this weekend | CTV News – CTV News Ottawa

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CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at activities and events happening in Ottawa, eastern Ontario and western Quebec this weekend.

It's the final weekend of RBC Ottawa Bluesfest at LeBreton Flats.

This weekend's lineup includes:

Friday: Rage Against the Machine, Run the Jewels, Ludic, Suzie Vinnick and Milky Chance

Saturday:Ja Rule, TLC, Cooper Brothers Southern Rock All-Star Revue, Cleopatrick, Grandson, Crystal Shawanda

Sunday:The National, Andy Shauf, Aysanabee, Elijah Woods, The Beaches, Lex Leosis

For more information, visithttps://ottawabluesfest.ca/.

Celebrate the very best in Middle Eastern cuisine this weekend at the Ottawa Lebanese Festival.

Enjoy the rich diversity of the Ottawa-Lebanese community with food, Middle Eastern entertainment and heritage.

The Ottawa Lebanese Festival runs until Sunday at St. Elias Cathedral.

For more information, visit https://www.ottawalebanesefestival.com/

After two years off because of COVID-19, the Ottawa Lebanese Festival is back this weekend. (Shaun Vardon/CTV News Ottawa)

Don't miss the Broadway hit Hamilton at the National Arts Centre.

Hamilton is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway.

The show runs until July 31.

For more information, visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21476

The Ottawa Titans host Quebec for a three game series this weekend at the Ottawa Baseball Stadium.

Game times are 6:30 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

For tickets, visit ottawatitans.com

Season ticket holder Judi Haines poses with Ottawa Titans mascot, Cappy. (Jackie Perez/CTV News Ottawa)

The Music and Beyond festival continues in Ottawa until Sunday.

It's a classical music and arts festival happening at several venues.

For more information, visithttps://musicandbeyond.ca/

The Northern Lights sound and light show is back on Parliament Hill this summer.

Enjoy the free and unique multimedia experience and discover Canada's great achievements and our history's key milestones.

The show runs Thursday to Monday, starting at 10 p.m. in July.

Join tap dancer Travis Knights in an intimate musical journey through rhythm and song in Together Again: a full-bodied concert.

See Travis Knights until Saturday at the National Arts Centre.

For more information, visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30868

The National Arts Centre is partnering up with Arohafest to offer a series of workshops to explore multiple facets of popular and classical Indian dance.

Arohafest is Saturday at the NAC.

For more information, visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/31460.

Canada's Ballet Jorgen's presentation of Anne of Green Gables The Ballet scheduled for Saturday night in Ottawa has been postponed.

For more information, visit https://meridiancentrepointe.com/en/anne-green-gables-ballet.

For information on each museum in Ottawa, click on the websites.

Beaches in Ottawa and Gatineau are open for the season.

In Ottawa, lifeguards are on duty at Britannia Beach, Mooney's Bay Beach and Petrie Island Beach from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Westboro Beach is closed for the season.

Six NCC beaches in Gatineau Park are open for the summer. Lifeguards will be on duty at the O'Brien, Blanchet, Breton, Parent, Smith and La Peche Lake beaches.

The NCC's popular weekend bike days continue all spring and summer.

Queen Elizabeth Driveway will be open for active transportation 24 hours a day all summer. The road will be closed to vehicles between Fifth Avenue and Somerset Street.

The parkways will be closed to vehicles and open for active transportation users during the following periods:

Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway

Sir George-Etienne Cartier Parkway

Immerse yourself in Claude Monet's paintings.

Claude Monet is considered to be the leading artist of impressionism, a movement that was called after his famous painting Impression Soleil Levant.

See Imagine Monet at the EY Centre until Aug. 14. For more information, visithttps://www.imagine-monet.com/ottawa-tickets/?lang=en.

The Ottawa Farmers Market is open every Sunday at Lansdowne Park.

The market is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Aberdeen Pavilion.

The York Street Farmers Market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Shop for fresh farmed goods at this producer-only farmers' market.

For more information, visithttps://ottawamarkets.ca/byward-market.

The 32ndseason of the Carp Farmers Market is underway.

Visit the farmers' market every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Carp Fairgrounds.

For more information, visitcarpfarmersmarket.ca.

The Metcalfe Farmers' Market is every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Metcalfe Fairgrounds.

For more information, visitmetcalfefm.com.

The Barrhaven Market is open every Sunday.

Visit the Nepean Woods Park and Ride from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday until Oct. 30.

The Barrhaven Farmers' Market is open every Saturday at the Log Farm on Cedarview Road.

The market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, visithttps://barrhavenfarmersmarket.com/.

H.O.P.E Volleyball Summerfest takes over the sand at Mooney's Bay Beach on Saturday.

Don't miss North America's largest one-day outdoor beach volleyball tournament.

For more information, visit https://hopehelps.com/

The Ottawa Maker Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

To register for free tickets, visit https://ottawamakerfestival.ca/.

A Company of Fools presents The Tempest in parks across Ottawa this summer.

The 90-minute show is pay what you can.

To find the park near you, visit https://fools.ca/the-tempest/.

Celebrate 30 years of music and community at the Stewart Park Festival in Perth, Ont. this weekend.

Enjoy music, the marketplace, kids' area and more Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

For more information, visit https://www.stewartparkfestival.com/.

Wesley Clover Parks invites you to attend the Ottawa Summer Tournaments.

See hundreds of horses and riders compete until Sunday in Ottawa's west end.

For more information, visit https://www.ottawaequestriantournaments.com/spectators.

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Norway’s latest Euros humiliation seems impossible to recover from. Can they do it anyway? – ESPN

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Football has a habit of it leaving scars. There are the literal, physical ones that line the flesh of those who play it, those left behind long after stitches or studs have been removed from skin. When it comes to emotional scars, we tend to think of fans carrying the weight of so many near misses, and joke about supporting a team for your sins.

It's in the interest of footballers, however, to leave painful losses behind them -- they'll be far better players if they can forget the penalty miss that cost them a title or the time they let their marker get away from them in a cup final. Yet, there are some losses that cut so deep, have such an impact that there will always be a reminder left behind.

For the Norwegian women's national team, the Monday night 8-0 loss to England in Euro 2022's Group A was the type of defeat that they may never recover from.

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There, of course, had been tears after Norway's group stage exit at the 2017 Euros, just as there was no way of quieting the sobs after the same team lost the 2013 final of the same competition. But Monday was different. It was the type of loss to rock all of Norwegian football -- it was not just the biggest margin of failure by any team at a Euros, male or female, but it was the single biggest loss in the history of the Norway women's national team.

As the players spoke to the media after the match, still clad in sweat and shame-soaked kits, there was no getting away from the emotion that rolled off each member of the squad who had to face the press. When speaking to ESPN, Norway captain Maren Mjelde described the feeling as "[her] heart bleeding a little."

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Whilst some players could do little to hide their frustration and anger, fighting to keep from spitting their words out in disgust, others used the last of their energy to stop from letting the misery overtake them, lips quivering. Professional pride had been hurt, but much worse, the players were carrying the burden of letting a nation of over 5 million down on their shoulders, the Norway badge never so heavy on their shirts. Eight-nil burned into the collective consciousness of a nation, the Norwegian delegation in Brighton part of footballing infamy.

As Caroline Graham Hansen said after the loss, "I think the problem today is that we don't do what we're supposed to do in the defence and when you don't do well in defence, you don't have good positioning to win the ball and do easy play out in the offense. I think today we didn't work as a team and then you see that each and every one of us are not able to perform."

The team, quite simply, was in a shambles. The players were fragmented across the pitch, formation unfathomable, obvious weaknesses exposed as England took a battering ram to the ruins of the visiting defence.

For as damning as the scoreline was, there was a stark inevitability about the result. Norway had never quite found their footing under coach Martin Sjgren and, although they could flex their attacking might against lower-ranked nations, there was a persistent issue of team cohesion against stronger nations.

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After the defeat, sections of the Norwegian press lamented the team's lack of preparation against teams in the FIFA top 10, but the problems had remained hidden in plain sight for all to see over the past four years. The defence was a collection of midfielders and attackers who had been repurposed, only getting weaker over Sjgren's tenure, the actual midfield lacked fluency and too often the onus was on Graham Hansen to be the saviour in Ada Hegerberg's absence.

When Norway were knocked out of the 2019 World Cup by England, the team had looked broken as soon as the whistle was blown. The team had booked their spot in the last eight after two hours and a round of spot kicks against Australia in the blistering heat of Nice, France, and by the time the ball began to roll in Le Havre, the players looked mentally and physically spent.

Having been dispatched by England in the 2015 edition of the World Cup, when Lucy Bronze slammed the ball home from outside the box, the players seemed blind to the English defender when she took up a position away from her teammates at an early free kick in France. The move failed to work but when the Lionesses were granted another set piece moments later, Bronze took up the same position, only to be ignored by the entire Norwegian team. Predictably, she scored as vigorously as she had four years prior. The players had not the energy to even move to intercept the defender.

At the Amex stadium in Brighton days ago, Norway could offer even less than they had against the same opposition three years prior. A soft penalty in the 12th minute was the catalyst for the worst night in Norwegian football history.

England had played well, there was no questioning that, but they had been playing a team that didn't move to defend them, didn't track runs or even jump to attempt to win headers. Watching the match wasn't so much viewing women against girls as it was regarding a team of footballers versus training cones, inanimate and malleable.

In the mixed zone, Graham Hansen had spoken about analysing what had gone wrong as part of the team's recovery for the upcoming Austria game. Yet watching the last 80 minutes of the match, it would be hard to find anything that had gone right. There barely looked to be a Plan A let alone B or C for Norway. The shape offered little defensive strength or attacking thrust, players left to their own devices on the pitch as Sjgren patrolled his dugout, refusing to affect the match -- his first substitute did not come until halftime with his team already down 6-0.

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Despite the loss, as stunning as it was, Norway are still very much still in this year's Euro competition -- but they must win their final group game against Austria on Friday if they are to progress to the knockout stages. To punch past Austria, they must return to the site of their English nightmare: Brighton.

The players seemed immediately aware in the aftermath of the fact that they couldn't dwell on the loss with a must-win to prepare for. Although they have already begun their mental preparation, including working with well-respected Norwegian sports psychologist Britt Tajet-Foxell, the very fact that their match against Austria will take place in Brighton could well be disastrous.

Should Norway manage to find a way to mine out their better attacking football against a defensively resolute Austria team that will, no doubt, be licking their lips at the prospect of facing such a flimsy defence, they will be pitted against Germany in the quarterfinals. No good deed and all that.

Win, lose or draw Friday, Sjgren's position has become untenable with several former Norwegian internationals calling for his head, yet the wider question of where the team goes after July remains heavy. The scars left by the defeat to England are ones that may never fully fade.

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Did the DAR Really Force Jimi Hendrix off the Monkees’ Tour? – Ultimate Classic Rock

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One of the greatest mismatches in rock history took place in July 1967 when the Jimi Hendrix Experience embarked on a massive U.S. tour opening for the Monkees and promptly ended eight dayslater, with Hendrix departing the ill-fated trek on July 17, 1967, after playing a mere seven shows.

It was not for a lack of effort or affection on the headliners' part. Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork had both seen Hendrix deliver a star-making performance at the Monterey Pop Festival one month earlier. While Tork later admitted that he "didn't get it," Dolenz was positively enamored and urgedthe Monkees camp to reach out to Hendrix's team about bringing the guitar hero on the road with them.

"I mentioned to our producers at the time we were looking for an opening act for our first big world tour and I said, 'How about these guys?' Because they were very theatrical," Dolenz told UCR in 2021. "Let's face it, the Monkees were a theatrical act. I guess they liked the idea and we liked the idea, and there you go."

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It was aboldmove for the Monkees, the squeaky-clean, made-for-TV pop-rock group whose audience largely comprised teenagegirls and exasperated parents chaperoning them. Hendrix attracted an older, rowdier and decidedly less white-bread crowd with his blistering, psychedelic hard rock, hippie regalia and (literally) pyrotechnic stage antics.The two artistsmixed as well as oil and water.

Speaking of water: "Oh, God, I hate them! Dishwater," Hendrix told theNew Musical Express several months earlier when asked about the Monkees. "I really hate somebody like that to make it so big. You can't knock anybody for making it, but people like the Monkees?"

DespiteHendrix'sopendisdain for the Monkees and the fact that nobody in his camp besides managerMichael Jeffery, knowing a good publicity stunt when he saw one, was enthusiastic about thetour offer the trek commenced on July 8 in Jacksonville, Fla. It went exactly as poorly asany reasonable observer would have expected.

"Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break into 'Purple Haze,' and the kids in the audience would instantly drown him out with, 'We Want Davy [Jones]!!' God, it was embarrassing," Dolenz wrote in his autobiography,I'm a Believer:My Life of Monkees, Music and Madness."The parents were probably not too crazy about having to sit through a Monkees concert, much less see this Black guy in a psychedelic Day-Glo blouse, playing music from hell, holding his guitar like he was fucking it, then lighting it on fire."

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Hendrix had at least one fan in the audience each night: Michael Nesmith, who used tosneak down to the front of the stage and bask in the Experience's distorted, acid-washed guitar squalls.

"First time I ever saw him was in North Carolina. It was the trio," Nesmith said in a 1986 MTV interview. "These guys came out, their hair was like9 feet across, and it was all backlit so it looked like they were on fire. And Jimi flips the guitar over and starts playing the opening lines to 'Foxey Lady.' I'd never heard anything like that in my life. It brought me to my knees, moved me back3 feet.So every night I'd sneak down to the stage, and I'd sit hidden with all these people screaming, 'We want the Monkees!,' listening to this exalted music that this guy was making."

Nesmith didn't get to listen for long. By the time the tour reached New York for a three-night stand at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Hendrix had had enough. "There was a sea of waving pink arms saying, 'We want the Monkees,'" Nesmith recalled. "And he finally flipped everybody the bird and muttered an expletive and walked off. Bless his heart."

After the third New York date and seventh overall, Hendrix asked the Monkees to be released from the tour. To cover up the reason for his departure, music critic Lillian Roxon, who was traveling with the tour, issued a tongue-in-cheek press release claiming the Daughters of the American Revolution had pressured concert promoters to drop Hendrix from the bill, complaining that his music was "too erotic" and "corrupting the morals of America's youth." The undiscerning press reported it as fact, and the lighthearted PR masterstroke became an indispensable, albeit untrue, part of Hendrix's mythology.

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Despitethe chilly receptionfrom the teenybopper crowd, Hendrix's stint opening for the Monkees was ultimately beneficial, helping to raise his profile in the United States just in time for the stateside release of his debut album,Are You Experienced?,the following month. The album became a sensation on underground radio, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold 5 million copies, turning Hendrix into a superstar. Within a year, theguitar god was headlining packed arenas and stadiums. The Monkees, meanwhile, continued paying tribute to him on their tour by playing a snippet of "Purple Haze" every night.

Hendrix's meteoric rise was inevitable, given his revolutionary guitar playing, but the Monkees still liked toclaima little credit for helping to elevate his U.S. profile."I'm quite sure that Jimi Hendrix would have done very well with or without the Monkees," Dolenz told UCR. "But I'd like to think that maybe it gave him a little bit of a leg up."

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Valkyrae reveals stalker flew to 100 Thieves compound looking for her – Dexerto

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YouTube streamer Rachell Valkyrae Hofstetter revealed in her interview with Anthony Padilla that she recently had a stalker fly to the 100 Thieves compound trying to find her.

As content creation gains popularity with people worldwide, creators have become victims of fans obsessively stalking them.

Pokimane, Amouranth, and Tana Mongeau are among the creators that have shared their scary experiences recently.

During a recent interview with Anthony Padilla, 100 Thieves Valkyrae revealed her recent experience with an obsessed fan that flew to the orgs compound in Los Angeles.

During the interview, Padilla asked the YouTube star about her most bizarre fan interaction, prompting her to share her recent story.

This actually happened relatively recently. So, I have a crazed fan who actually flew in from out of state and went to the 100 Thieves compound, she revealed. They warned me that this guy was looking for me and they called the cops.

He ended up staying at the airport for several days and recording videos saying things like Im not leaving until Rae picks me up, I know she wants to see me. and its really, really crazy. Hes like If she goes to Coachella without me Im going to be really really sad.'

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The streamer went on to explain that she had never interacted with this person and believed he had real mental issues because he believed she wanted him to fly out to see her.

She added: Seeing his videos really reminded me that anyone can watch you and build this sort of parasocial mindset with any streamer or content creator they watch, and its dangerous.

This isnt the first time Rae has dealt with a stalker, she had to make her Twitter profile private in 2021 due to someone stalking her there.

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Tilray Brands Potently Canadian Cannabis Brand, CANACA Joins this Years Calgary Stampede and Releases Wild West Product Lineup – Yahoo Finance

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TORONTO, July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tilray Brands, Inc. ("Tilray" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: TLRY; TSX: TLRY), a leading global cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company inspiring and empowering the worldwide community to live their very best life, today announced the Wild West lineup from beloved Canadian cannabis brand, CANACA, at the Calgary Stampede, The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.

CANACA is celebrating the Calgary Stampede at the legendary Wildhorse Saloon where the brand is hosting a western lounge featuring Stampede-inspired activations and limited-edition merchandise.

Along with the Wild West activation, consumers can check out CANACAs greatest product hits available now in Calgary and nationwide across Canada:

CANACA Indica 30 Infused Pre-Rolls: Carefully crafted using a proprietary blend of highly aromatic trichome-dense, hand-harvested indica whole flower, that yields a delightful combination of fruity, herbal, and earthy flavours. This convenient 3-pack of 0.5g pre-rolls provides a potent THC experience with an elevated potency of 30% courtesy of the dry sift hash infusion.

THC Distillate Vape Pen: With 80% THC thats always ready to go, this breath-activated, all-in-one vape delivers 200 puffs of high-potency THC cannabis distillate and does not contain any added ingredients or flavours - so you can sit back, relax, inhale, and enjoy; no chargers or batteries required for this high-performance build thanks to its ceramic heater.

Sour Diesel Flower: A CANACA classic - a strong diesel and peppery profile with hints of herbal aromas. This sativa strain originates from a cross of Chemdawg and Super Skunk. With a THC range of 20-24% and available in 3.5g whole flower, these frosted green buds are loaded with ample trichome coverage.

CANACA Blend 14: Serving as another one of CANACAs hand-harvested hybrids, these 3-packs of 0.5g pre-rolls are perfect for on-the-go, coming in at a consistent mid-range THC potency of 14-17%.

CANACA Blend 19: Offering a THC potency between 17-24%, these convenient 3-packs of 0.5g pre-rolls are carefully crafted from a highly aromatic blend of sticky trichome-dense, hand-harvested hybrid cannabis that is expertly grown in a sun-filled, high-tech greenhouse.

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Join CANACAs Wild West takeover at the Wildhorse Saloon in Calgary, Canada, at 500 6th Avenue S.W., Lot #176. Pick up your merchandise to rock all week long while experiencing the exhibition in full force, along with music performances you dont want to miss.

To find a local cannabis retailer in Alberta, Canada, check out the AGLC website and find out where to buy CANACA products near you.

About CANACA

CANACA is a proudly Canadian brand that indulges your unapologetic love for Canada and cannabis. Were all about elevated adventures and uplifting experiences. The ones where youre enjoying the journey, not just the destination. Were passionate about crafting cannabis thats consistent, reliable, and full of character just like the people we serve.

Our products are curated and designed to serve the unique and ever-evolving cannabis needs and wants of Canadians. Were proud of our work and the people and places that produce our products. Thats why CANACA is grown, produced, and packaged in small-town Canada and always will be. Were potently Canadian, and dang proud of it.

For more about CANACA, follow @canacayourbud on Instagram.

About Tilray Brands

TilrayBrands, Inc. (Nasdaq: TLRY and TSX: TLRY) is a leading global cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company with operations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and Latin America that is changing peoples lives for the better one person at a time by inspiring and empowering the worldwide community to live their very best life by providing them with products that meet the needs of their mind, body, and soul and invoke a sense of wellbeing. Tilrays mission is to be the trusted partner for its patients and consumers by providing them with a cultivated experience and health and wellbeing through high-quality, differentiated brands and innovative products. A pioneer in cannabis research, cultivation, and distribution, Tilrays unprecedented production platform supports over 20 brands in over 20 countries, including comprehensive cannabis offerings, hemp-based foods, and alcoholic beverages.

For more information on Tilray Brands, visit http://www.Tilray.com and follow @Tilray

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Saturday nights main stage lineup is dedicated to throwback hip hop, though the first artist is the most current. Taking the stage at 7pm is Big Zee, who will be sharing new music from his recent album, Guns & Roses, released last month. With a complete album in his repertoire, in addition to singles, EPs and collabs, this Canadian import by way of Dallas will have plenty for a solid set.

The lineup was to feature a triple-bill of 90s and 2000s icons, but unfortunately, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony had to pull out at the last minute. Luckily, organizers already had three artists lined up for the stage, so they adjusted stage times to accommodate the change. First up at 8:05pm will be Atlantas TLC, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time (with 90 million records sold and counting). Their first three albums were absolute smash hits, with 1994s CrazySexyCool alone selling over 15 million copies on the strength of singles Creep and Waterfalls, which continue to get airplay today. Fans had to wait until 1999 for the follow-up album FanMail, which continued their successful run with hits No Scrubs and Unpretty. Sadly, the trio became a duo when Lisa Left Eye Lopes died tragically in 2002. On hiatus for a decade, the remaining TLC members (Tionne T-Boz Watkins and Rozonda Chilli Thomas) made a comeback with the release of a new album in 2017 and have since been touring again, given the never-ending demand for their monster hits.

Next is New Yorks Ja Rule at 9:30pm. The rapper had a prolific run in the early 2000s, starting with his debut album Venni Vetti Vecci in 1999, with subsequent albums annually through 2004. Not only did these produce a string of hits, but his collaborations with Jennifer Lopez, Mary J. Blige and Ashanti, among many others, added to his impressive catalogue. After dominating the charts, the rapper dabbled in several different endeavours, including acting and writing a memoir, before returning to music with an album in 2012 and a new album expected soon.

The tent features a mix of covers and originals from a few different genres Saturday. First at 6pm is Ottawas own Sly High, an 11-piece tribute band for legends Sly and the Family Stone. With a full horn section and funky rhythm section, they put it all on display at their Bluesfest performance in 2019, earning themselves a return appearance.

Next at 7:30pm is Crystal Shawanda, the Wiikwemkoong country singer who burst onto the scene with her debut single You Can Let Go in 2008, which quickly became the fastest-rising debut Canadian country single. But by 2014, Shawanda shifted gears with The Whole Worlds Got The Bluesand has followed that up with three more blues albums, including 2020s Church House Blues.

Shell segue quite nicely at 9pm to the Cooper Brothers Southern Rock All-Star Revue, which promises to be a party atmosphere. As their name implies, they will feature a set of classic bluesy southern rock from The Allmans, Skynyrd, and more, with appearances from special guests throughout the set. Part jam session, part tribute concert, and all fun.

The lineup kicks off at 6:30pm with Ottawas Lia Kloud, whose dark, introspective beats and lyrics are only starting to scratch the surface of this up-and-coming artist. Her two singles released this year have already gained attention and increasing anticipation for a full album.

Next at 8pm is Cobourgs cleopatrick. A weird thing happened as the duo slowly built a collection of songs since their first EP in 2016. Their 2017 single hometown, which had had decent success in Canada at the time, suddenly took off in the U.S. this past year, as they finally released their debut album Bummer. As a duo, they have a streamlined garage rock sound that they have stayed true to on their records, as close as they can come to translating their high-energy stage shows onto records.

Closing out the show will be grandson, the Toronto product who blends alternative rock with influences of rap, hip hop and EDM into a fresh new sound that immediately caught on with his first EP release, A Modern Tragedy Vol. 1 from 2017, thanks to lead single Blood // Water. Despite the pandemic, he has spent the past few years continually churning out new music, plus quite a few collaborations, including the early-pandemic hit Zen with X Ambassadors and K. Flay. We caught up with grandson recently, so keep an eye on our site Saturday for our chat touching on collaborations, post-pandemic festival shows, and life.

The indoor sets tonight start at 6:30pm with Ottawas own Slack Bridges, who will bring their soul and R&B mix to the theatre. After releasing 2020s Lindenlea to Ledbury, the group released an instrumental version of the album this year, highlighting their incredible musicianship.

Next at 8pm is TJ Wheeler. A dedicated devotee of the blues, jazz and related sub-genres, Wheeler has spent countless hours performing for students to introduce the traditional genres to new generations. A master at his craft, his set is bound to include many classics.

Finally, Crystal Shawanda will play a second set in the theatre at 9:30pm.

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Big tech companies in the spotlight as South Africa investigates dominance abuse – TechCrunch

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Big tech companies are facing increased scrutiny in South Africa for dominance abuse and anti-competitive behavior, just months after the countrys competition regulator, the Competition Commission (CompCom), started an inquiry into the conduct of online intermediation (b2c) platforms.

In its initial findings, the regulator has established that Apple, Google, UberEats, Airbnb, Booking.com, and South Africas Mr Delivery; a food ordering and delivery platform, Takealot; an e-commerce site, Private Property and Property24; both real estate classifieds, and car classifieds Autotrader and Cars.co.za; have an unfair advantage as market leaders, and are operating in ways that impede competition.

The inquiry team is seeking further evidence, if any, from parties affected by the competitionconduct or market feature of these platforms. It is also seeking comments regarding findings in the report, as it moves into the final phase of the inquiry, which will include remedial action.

Google and Apple

Noting Googles monopoly, the regulator stated the default positioning of its search engine on android and iOS mobile devices was problematic. The study also took issue with the prominence of paid search results (those that appear at the top of the page), indicating a lack of clear distinction from organic search findings.

The report recommended that the top search results be organically generated, adverts distinctly shaded or labeled, and paid results positioned at the bottom of the results page.

Illustration of the proposed Google search remedy on mobile device. Image Credits: South Africa Competition Commission

It further called for an end to Googles preference for its own specialist (shopping, travel and local) search tools, saying that they bar competition from aggregators, comparator sites and online travel agencies.

Google must afford competing metasearch or specialist search (including travel, local and other), comparator sites (shopping or other) and online travel agents the same opportunity to provide content and visual rich impressions or units that it affords its own specialist shopping, travel and local search units. Google may no longer impose minimum bid thresholds for paid results, CompCom said in its provisional remedies.

It also recommended an end to default arrangements for Google Search on iOS and Android devices sold in South Africa.

In-app stores, it noted, complete exclusion of competing software app stores and side-loading by Apple which impedes effective competition for commission fees. The default arrangements of Google Play on android devices, the Commission said, has affected competition from other android software app stores.

The regulator also fingered the Google Play Points loyalty scheme, which it says, is funded by extracting discounts from app developers, a strategy it found to hinder competition from smaller players.

A lack of competition has resulted in excessive commission fees to the detriment of South African app developers, publishers and consumers of apps acquired through the SA storefront requiring in-app payments,

given that Apple will not allow competition and refuses to compromise on security, and Google Play has become entrenched, there needs to be a remedy that either regulates these platforms or successfully takes transactions off the stores altogether so they cannot be monitored and taxed. For this reason, the Inquiry is of the view that either there is price regulation or a complete end to anti-steering provisions which were recommended by the court in the Epic-Apple case, said CompCom in the report.

In its provisional recommendations, the Commission called for an end to anti-steering provisions for all apps and fronted the end of exclusionary loyalty schemes, as well as the default arrangement of the Google Play store on android devices.

In terms of an end to anti-steering provisions, the inquiry expects that this would involve the ability for apps to communicate an alternative external payment mechanism and provide a clickable link to make a payment.

Food delivery platforms

CompCom also recommended an end to the restrictions imposed on franchisees by international restaurant chains, especially in the selection of food delivery partners. Other suggestions included the removal of price parity clauses (which require suppliers not to offer better or lower prices in other or their own platforms) from contracts, end of predatory pricing, and for transparency with consumers especially on the surcharges for each restaurant.

Additionally, it proposed the removal and prohibition of price parity clauses used by travel and accommodation platforms, Booking.com and Airbnb, which were found to impede competition through lower commissions and prices that in turn increase consumer dependency.

These platforms were also found to leverage important visibility on their platform to get discounts from accommodation and travel providers to fund their own loyalty schemes. CompCom found the practice unfair to small players that cannot leverage the same. It went on to recommend the removal of exclusionary loyalty schemes, saying such programs should be fully-funded by the companies.

E-commerce and classifieds

E-commerce platforms were found to stifle competition as they disincentivized sellers from price differentiation across platforms and distorted pricing in the market through subsidization. CompCom suggested that Takealot, a market leader, removes price parity clauses and end predatory conduct, or alternatively the Commission to consider investigation and prosecution of predatory conduct as a suitable deterrent.

For listing platforms, the inquiry faulted the lack of interoperability of the listing engine software used by South Africas top classifieds platforms (Property24, Private Property, Autotrader and Cars.co.za) impeded competition. Interoperability and the scrapping of fees, to include third-party listing platforms were recommended.

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The Uber files lit up the darkness of big tech, and showed why we need whistleblowers – The Guardian

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This week, more than 124,000 documents disclosed by the whistleblower Mark MacGann, Ubers former chief lobbyist for Europe, detailed how Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments in order to aggressively build its global empire.

Last year, I disclosed thousands of documents to the US government revealing Facebooks negligence about the harm its products were doing. As with the documents supplied by MacGann, the public would have never known this information even existed had a whistleblower not tipped them off.

The Uber files clearly illustrate the critical importance of whistleblowers. They also present choices for governments and the citizens they represent. Technology has always outpaced its regulators. It takes time for a culture of accountability to grow around any nascent technology or industry, and for governments to understand how they work and what costs are being passed on to the public.

The most critical technologies that will drive and define our economy in years to come are radically less transparent than those that drove our economy a hundred years ago. As the motor industry became more complicated and prominent in society, the public were able to walk alongside it. People could buy a car and crash it, buy a car, and take it apart, buy a car and put sensors on to verify that the claims of its manufacturers were true. Accountability grew alongside the industry.

For most digital technologies, this cannot occur. Critical design choices are hidden behind our screens, where the public cannot access them. The functioning of a system such as Facebook is impossible to inspect from the outside. Academics and journalists spend millions of dollars building third-party tools to harvest glimmers of data from Facebooks systems.

That investment is critical for exposing Facebooks failures. For instance, the companys Widely Viewed Content report in the Transparency Center manipulates data to hide the fact that inflammatory content keeps getting bumped back up your newsfeed when people debate in the comments section. As a former insider, I happen to know that, but Facebook refuses to share this information with any external researcher. This kind of access to data is essential for investigating Facebooks distorted representations and for gaining democratic oversight of these platforms.

If we can only ever extract threads of knowledge from outside the curtain that shields bad behaviour and only then at an extreme cost we will never have effective accountability. Thats why big-tech whistleblowers play an ever more important role as our line of defence. They pierce the corporate veil in the name of public safety. We must act to ensure future whistleblowers are afforded the same, if not more robust, protections.

People often ask me how my whistleblowing journey has unfolded: whether Im OK with all the public attention and scrutiny Ive received. The truth is, I am OK. I chose to follow my conscience, and now I can sleep at night. I am fortunate that the worst corners of the internet have not come for me, as they do for many women and minorities who speak their minds in public.

I know I am fortunate. Not all whistleblowers have fared as well. Daniel Motaung was a Facebook moderator working in Kenya. He was paid just $2.20 an hour and forced to watch graphic footage of suicide and murder in a content moderation factory day after day a fate, he says, that drove him and many of his co-workers to suffer from PTSD and worse. He was later fired by Facebooks outsourcing partner Sama in 2019 after he bravely led more than 100 of his colleagues in a unionisation effort for better pay and working conditions. He is now suing Sama and Meta, alleging that he and his former colleagues are victims of forced labour, human trafficking and union-busting. Facebook is attempting to silence him; the company has asked a judge to crack the whip on Motaung to prevent him from speaking to the media. The double standards applied to him for following his conscience are unjust. His persecution must stop.

Technology has always outpaced regulations that help pull it back towards the common good. Good governance takes time, but that gap grows larger with an acceleration in technological development. Big techs ability to operate in the darkness, and its complete asymmetry of information, put the public and entire democracies at grave risk.

Governments can never keep the public safe in isolation. We need academics and vetted researchers who can independently ask questions and create frameworks for us to think about problems. We need litigators who hold companies accountable when they cut corners to make profits. We need investors who understand what good governance looks like to ensure companies dont focus on short-term profits at the expense of long-term success. We need technologists who care deeply about designing technology for individual and democratic wellbeing.

We also need whistleblowers.

Our only safe path forward is to work for strong laws that protect whistleblowers worldwide. When the US passed major whistleblower protections in 2002 in the wake of corporate scandals, it was cutting-edge in affording the employees of publicly traded companies whistleblower rights. Its now time to expand protections to all employees of privately held companies as well. We cant afford to let the future operate in the dark any longer. Democracy depends on it.

Frances Haugen is a former Facebook product manager and an advocate for accountability and transparency in social media

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Palmer Luckey: The U.S. is falling behind in defense because Big Tech is scared of China – Fast Company

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After Palmer Luckey sold his Oculus virtual reality company to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, he could have easily used the proceeds to start a new AI company that sold chatbots or made movie recommendations. Instead he did something harder: He founded Anduril, which sells AI-powered drone defense systems to the U.S. and its allies.

He says part of his reason for starting Anduril is because the Pentagon was not getting the strategic benefits of having the worlds biggest braintrust of tech innovation within its bordersSilicon Valley.

Luckey spoke at Fortunes Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, on Wednesday, and, as usual, he was a fountain of soundbites.

Big Tech companies like Meta, Luckey says, are using their vast wealth, and the worlds top talent, mainly to build tech toys and social apps while ignoring more serious applications like protecting democracies from aggressors.

Were deployed in partner nations fighting active aggressors who are trying to destroy their countries, Luckey said. And you realize, like if you move fast and break things, then people are going to die . . . he added, referencing Facebooks one-time rallying cry for building new tech quickly.

He also seemed almost proud that he was terminated by Facebook.

[W]hen you say my exit from Facebook . . . my employment was terminated, he told FortunesMichal Lev-Ram. I always note that just because its so common for people to hide behind the niceties.

Luckey said that while the defense market is huge (the U.S. now routinely budgets more than $700 billion for defense), the U.S. tech industry has largely shied away from it, ostensibly because of the red tape involved in selling to the governmentand because of the perception that many Silicon Valley workers have idealogical objections to working on defense tech. A group of Google employees famously protested, and some resigned, over the companys contract to work on the Pentagons Project Maven in 2018.

I think thats mostly a smokescreen for the real reason companies stay out of defense, he said, which is, nobody wants to lose access to Chinese markets, Chinese capital, and Chinese manufacturingespecially companies like Apple that have invested literally hundreds of billions of dollars and will continue to invest hundreds of billions more.

Luckey had more to say about Apples dealings with China. Apple, which began selling into the greater China market in 2010, has taken as much as a quarter of its total revenue there in years past (China accounted for $68 billion in 2021). Most of Apples supply chain is in Asia, and nearly all of its manufacturing happens on mainland China.

Youd think that if anyone could do what they want to do, then [its] Apple, the largest company in the country, one of the most powerful entities in the world, more powerful than most nations. . . . Luckey said. [But] they could never do anything that would upset the Chinese Communist Party because, if that happens, [with] 95% of our manufacturing is in China, they are a $2 trillion company that could be wiped out with the stroke of a pen.

Luckey has long made the case that Silicon Valley isnt supplying the technology needed to help the U.S. counter forces like the Russians and the Chinese, which are relying on high-tech weapons such as hypersonic missiles and autonomous vehicles to achieve dominance on the battlefields of the future. (He readily acknowledges there are exceptions to the rule, such as Microsoft, which has been a steady partner to the DoD.)

In the absence of Big Tech, youd expect smaller startup companies to rush in to fill the gap. But, Luckey explained, startups find it difficult to seize the opportunity.

[I]ts very hard to raise money; Its very unpopular with a lot of investors, especially the ESG type investors, which represents $30 trillion in global capital, he said. You were in this situation where anyone working on defense was seen as just kind of inherently wrong by enough people that nobody would follow.

Luckey points out that even though the defense market is huge compared to commercial or consumer tech markets, only two defense startupsPalantir and SpaceXbecame unicorns in the 35 years after the end of the Cold War.

Instead, the Pentagon continues to rely on big defense contractors, such as Raytheon and McDonnell Douglaswhich are better at building fighter planes and bombs than softwareto supply the majority of its technology. The old relationships, and slow pace, are habits that die hard.

We dont have the structure and certainly not the incentives from the government to build autonomous systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, artificially intelligent sensors, high-end joint all-domain command and control systems, Palmer said. It became clear that that was going to be an important part of the future that we were not building at our major defense primes. By contrast, China, with its authoritarian system of government, has little trouble sourcing cutting-edge tech from Chinese companies.

Luckey is among the most visible in a group of startup founders, ex-tech CEOs (such as Eric Schmidt), VCs, and government officials trying to find ways of helping the Valley and the Pentagon work together. But in tech circles Luckey has been perceived as a voice in the wildernessor worse, a proponent of robotic war. That perception, he says, has changed.

. . . Ive been invited to way more conferences since Ukraine got invadedit was like overnight, Luckey said. People were shitting on me for like five years, and then all of a sudden, Ukraine got invaded and people who had been shitting on me were like Palmer, you are such an incredible mind on defense; please come and speak.'

Luckey stressed that he hopes the Ukraine conflict will end soon but said he fears that Americans will forget its lessonthat the U.S. and its allies are falling behind authoritarian regimes when it comes to high-tech war.

Why did Russia feel like they could get away with thisand why were they right? he asked.

Luckey believes both the Pentagon and Silicon Valley should face up to the problem of the U.S.s vulnerability to high-tech, autonomous weaponry.

[H]opefully after the conflict you could say, Okay, those underlying problems are still there, and I need to work on this before the next invasion, he said.

Im gonna lose my mind if people stop caring about this, and then Taiwan gets invaded and then everyone has I stand with Taiwan Twitter profile pictures.'

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