Wakenya interesting news roundup
You may have been busy this week, so wakenyacanada summarized news of the week that are of significance to Wakenya in Canada and elsewhere.
Toronto 2015 PanAm games continued to thrill on day #4 as Canada hauled in more medals to the top of the rank, with 64 medals [25 Gold, 22 Silver and 17 Bronze].
Starting 2016, CraveTV will be offered directly to any Canadian with an internet connection as opposed to only those directly linked to Bell TV. This move is testimony to how online viewing has changed the TV landscape.
The small town of Delia, Alberta, 2 hours northeast of Calgary needs more residents. Cheap land is hard to come by but the Alberta village of Delia has lots for sale for just $10. The community has a population of just 186 and they’re looking for a way to keep the community alive. To entice people to move there, the village slashed the price of seven fully serviced lots, valued at $10,000 each, to just $10 apiece. However, there’s a catch: the purchasers of the $10 lots must build on them within one year or they’ll lose a $990 deposit.
The Canadian Forces soldiers have been called in to help fight wildfires in the Western Canada province of Saskatchewan, where over 100 active fires have forced the evacuation of more than 13,000 people and threatened several remote towns. With more fires raging in Alberta and British Colombia, assistance has come in the form of equipment & firefighter crews from as far away as New Zealand.
While some economists suggest that Canada has entered into a mild recession, you may actually be richer than you think as financial estimators say that there could be as much as $5 Billion in unclaimed assets in the country for Canadians. To add salt to injury, a lack of legislation makes it hard for most people to find their assets, according to a CBC News investigation. Only British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec have unclaimed property legislation and databases where individuals can search for a variety of assets, and experts say efforts to bring a similar program to Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, have faced resistance from the financial sector.
The racist killing of nine black people in a Charleston church last month has rewritten history as the Confederate battle flag, which flew on the grounds of South Carolina statehouse was brought down last Friday.
A historic nuclear deal with Iran Tuesday has caused deep rifts in global relations. While Obama praised the deal, Israel’s Netanyahu denounced it as a “historic mistake”.
In the wake of Obama’s visit to Kenya on July 25th, the US has issued a travel advisory for Kenya, urging both participants and visitors to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit to be vigilant and on the lookout for possible terrorists and criminals.
Speaking of which, Organizers of the upcoming 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summ
it [GES] confirmed on Tuesday that the three sharks [of the TV show “Shark Tank”]; Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Mark Cuban will be among the 3,000 delegates set to converge in Nairobi next week. The summit, the first in sub-Saharan Africa and which will be attended by US President Barack Obama, will bring together business leaders, policymakers and investors.
Meanwhile, a reaffirmation that you cannot easily break the spirit of Kenyans as Nairobi’s Westgate Mall is set to reopen after nearly two years following a deadly terrorist attack that left 67 people dead.
Hack of the week
I’ve always hated it that my necklaces tangle during travel. Then I read this somewhere and it works. Use straws to keep necklaces tangle free.
