"We are committed to aligning Canada's zero-emission vehicles sales targets with those of the most ambitious North American jurisdictions," Canadian Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement.

The WPA outlined a set of minimum requirements required of the IOC, which deals with international travel for athletes, testing measures, access to necessary treatment and whether traditional competition formats need to be altered.

The plan, which the Trudeau administration proposed, would see Canada joining the state of California and countries like the United Kingdom (though the UK's plan is even more ambitious, giving itself five fewer years to meet its goal) in shifting toward electric vehicles.



The Jackie Robinson Pool in Manhattan opened on August 8, 1936 and was originally known as Colonial Park Pool. The facility showcased Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson singing Battle Hymm of the Republic to a crowd of 25,000

Feb 5 (Reuters) - The World Players Association (WPA) on Friday called for a comprehensive and fully funded COVID-19 protection plan as opposed to mere statements from the organisers to safeguard the health of athletes at this year's Tokyo Olympics.

Siobhan McLaughlin, 46, was refused the benefit after her partner John Adams died from cancer in January 2014 because the couple, who had four children and were together for 23 years, were not married or in a civil pa

The Games were postponed last year due to the spread of the novel coronavirus and a recent spike in infections in Japan that triggered a state of emergency in some areas has fuelled speculation about whether they can be held this summer.

'This results in scenarios where client devices that are unaffected (either patched or using different Wi-Fi chips not vulnerable to Kr00k) can be connected to an access point (often times beyond an individual's control) that is vulnerable,' researchers wrote in a research paper.

Our friendly neighbor to the North, aka Canada, has announced its intention to ban the sale of new internal-combustion-powered passenger cars and light trucks by 2035, with the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a Reuters report Tuesday.

Olympic officials on Wednesday unveiled the first of many COVID-19 rules for the Games, which include banning singing and chanting during events and mandating event participants to wear masks at "all times" except when eating, sleeping or outdoors.

The building at Betsy Head Pool set the bar for recreation facilities across the country. Today visitors to the park area can enjoy pastimes from shooting baskets, swimming, jogging around the track, or taking a personal tour of the landmark building

"There is reason to be filled with hope and even optimism about our future," said Kerry. "The finalists and winners that we've recognized this evening remind us that we do have an incredible ability to turn the improbable into reality if we work together."

"While the experience of professional team sports can be a valuable precedent for the IOC, it can only be if the keys of its success are fully embraced by the IOC and scaled to the level of the Games," he said.

His announcement was followed by a message from the US special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry.  The next Earthshot Prize ceremony is set to take place in the US in 2022, Prince William said at the end of the event. This year's ceremony came just weeks before the UK is set to host COP26, the world's most important climate summit.

Prince William has announced the winners of the first Earthshot Prize, an ambitious program designed to develop ideas and technologies to protect the environment and fight back against the climate crisis. Five winners were awarded Ј1 million ($1.4M) at a star-studded event in London on Sunday after being chosen by a council of celebrities, environmentalists, technologists and philanthropists for their scalable solutions to environmental challenges.

Specifically, the exploit, dubbed KrШШk allowed hackers to tinker with the encryption of data communicated between a device and the router, causing it to change from a random string of characters to all zeroes and effectively rending the encryption useless.

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A swimming contest is in full swing on August 20, 1936 at the Astoria Park Pool - the largest of the 11 WPA pools opened only on July 2 of the same year during the great heatwave. Hell Gate Bridge  - a 1,017-foot steel through arch railroad bridge connecting Astoria in Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan - can be seen in the background

In 1966, a pilot program under the Lindsay administration created portable pools. 'Swimmobiles' began during the Heckscher administration, quite literally taking pools to the streets to underserved areas