The senior curling championship in Canada is concluded at the Vernon rink.
On the men’s side, Nova Scotia prevailed, and Ontario won the women’s division.
Nova Scotia won the gold medal in the men’s category and team Ontario won the gold in the women’s division of the 2023 Everest Canadian Senior Women’s and Men’s Curling Championships, which concluded on Saturday, December 9 at the Vernon Curling Club.
Nova Scotia emerged victorious in the men’s division, defeating Saskatchewan 4-3 on Saturday morning. Nova Scotia, led by Kris Granchelli, won the match with two points in the opening end, one in the fifth end, and one in the eighth and final one.
In the men’s competition, Manitoba defeated New Brunswick by a score of 8–5, with three points in the sixth end accounting for much of the victory.
On Saturday afternoon, the ladies participated in a competition, with Julie McMullin’s Ontario team emerging victorious after defeating Saskatchewan 10–4. Having scored two in the fifth end and three in the sixth and seventh ends, Ontario concluded the match strongly. In the end, neither side was able to score.
The British Columbia women’s team defeated Alberta to win the bronze medal while the gold medal match was taking place. After scoring three in the seventh end, B.C. emerged victorious, 7-3.
The men’s and women’s teams from Nova Scotia and Ontario, who won gold medals in the Everest championships, will now represent Canada in Sweden in 2024 in the World Senior Curling Championships.
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For the first time, CRTC will provide high-speed internet to distant areas, including Nunavut.
$39.7 million from the Broadband Fund has been distributed by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to 28 isolated towns in Northern Ontario, Northern British Columbia, and, for the first time, Nunavut, to enable high-speed internet access.
According to the CRTC, Nunavut’s towns, citizens, companies, and non-governmental organizations wrote to the commission highlighting the ways in which high-speed internet will provide access to healthcare and education while assisting in the preservation of Inuit language and culture.
Vicky Eatrides, chairperson of the CRTC, said, “We know how important high-quality internet and cellphone services are to every aspect of peoples’ daily lives.” “Today is a historic day as the CRTC assists in bringing high-speed internet service to every community in Nunavut for the first time.
11,405 homes in 25 Nunavut communities will get satellite internet access from SSI Micro Ltd.
The other beneficiary of such financing is Keewaytinook Okimakanak, whose purpose is to keep 182 homes in two First Nation communities in Northern Ontario connected to the internet via satellite.
Furthermore, Northwestel’s Yukon Fibre project, which comprised 24 Yukon villages and was chosen as part of the Broadband Fund in August 2020, is receiving additional financing from the CRTC. Now, the project will be expanded to provide Atlin, a little village in northern British Columbia, with fiber-based internet services.
According to the CRTC, it will continue to review proposals and announce more financing in 2024.
Launched in 2019 with the goal of connecting Canada’s underserved rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, the Broadband Fund has contributed over $300 million to date to upgrade cellular and high-speed internet services in over 230 communities.
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