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Shoe blowout, injury raises fears for NBA's likely #1 pick | News
The man expected to be this year's number one pick in the NBA draft has given potential suitors a real scare after a freak accident in a college basketball game.
Zion Williamson's shoe exploded during Duke's showdown with archrivals, the University of North Carolina, on Thursday.
The forward injured his knee after his foot slid out through the bottom of his sneaker. It happened 33 seconds in, and Zion missed the rest of the game.
The shoe even Barack Obama is talking about. More coming up on @AJEnglish at 1845 GMT with @marilyn_payne #ZionsShoe pic.twitter.com/vRQHrKAMBC
— Leah Harding (@LeahHardingAJE) February 21, 2019
Duke are yet to confirm the full extent of the injury. However, it has already affected the maker of Zion's sneakers, Nike. After Wednesday's close, Nike's stocks dropped overnight by 1.17 percent.
Nike is the biggest brand in basketball with the NBA locked into an eight-year kit deal. In a statement, Nike said, "The quality and performance of our products are of utmost importance. While this is an isolated occurrence, we are working to identify the issue."
Sports reporter Marilyn Payne was at the game and said, "Adidas and Under Armor are two brands that have already benefited from this globally. Overnight both of their stocks rising as well."
The financial impact could also spill over into the NBA.
Though Williamson is only 18 and in his first year of college, Payne said, "If it's not a recoverable injury, if there's irreversible damage, the financial ramifications of the players that would then come after him, and certainly of his own pocket come the draft time, would be impacted very significantly."
Former US President Barack Obama was in the stands and was one of the first to spot the shoe tear.
"His shoe broke." pic.twitter.com/FAtpaF5uAt
— Chase Hughes (@ChaseHughesNBCS) February 21, 2019
The ex-president tweeted the athlete. "Zion Williamson seems like an outstanding young man as well as an outstanding basketball player. Wishing him a speedy recovery," said Obama.
With fingers pointed at Nike, Williamson's massive frame would likely test the limits of any shoe. After all, he's not your average 18-year-old weighing in at 129kg and standing two metres tall.
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Even before the pandemic began, almost everything was being delivered to the door — from a Big Mac to a big screen TV — any day, any waking hour.
Lockdowns and crowd avoidance only accelerated the trend, so that any urban neighbourhood is being daily criss-crossed with vehicles delivering any desire that can be bound in a cardboard box, even a mattress.
So, there are bound to be quirks and surprises.
In November, Brigitte McCauley-Philion, 36, ordered 85 packages of flooring from Lowe's, the home improvement giant, enough to do most of the three-bedroom house in Beacon Hill South.
It wasn't cheap. The total came in just shy of $1,400. Because of the quantity and weight, she carefully checked the delivery restrictions and agreed to pay $70 to have the laminate flooring delivered.
As she was later negotiating the delivery date and time, there came a shock.
The $70 would only bring the flooring to the curb side. If she wanted it inside the house, it would cost an extra $3 per package, times 85, plus tax, or something creeping towards $300.
"My main reaction was: $3 a box to bring it 3 feet?," she wrote Friday. "So why did I pay a delivery fee? $300 to have my flooring delivered into home is absolutely crazy!"
McCauley-Philion, who is severely hearing impaired, says she appealed to various managers to make sure she understood the conditions. Did delivery not mean inside the house? After all, she reasoned, if she could carry 85 bundles inside the home, she wouldn't need the delivery in the first place.
Are the Proud Boys terrorists? Ottawa considers listing white supremacist groups alongside al-Qaida, Islamic State
OTTAWA—Canada's national security agencies are "very actively" monitoring white supremacist groups and are considering designating more of them as terrorist organizations, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says.
Blair's office said in a statement Sunday that intelligence and law enforcement agencies were actively gathering evidence to list white supremacist groups like the Proud Boys as terrorist organizations — a designation that would place them on the same level as al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.
"We strongly denounce ideologically motivated extremists including groups like the Proud Boys, white supremacists, (anti-Semites), Islamophobic and misogynist groups," wrote Mary-Liz Power, a spokesperson for Blair's office, in a statement to the Star.
"Intolerance and hate have no place in our society."
Blair's comments, first made in an interview with CTV News on Sunday, show a remarkable change in how federal authorities view the threat posed by white nationalists and far-right extremists in the last few years.
Canada's domestic intelligence agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), abandoned a rolling investigation into far-right groups in 2016. After the deadly 2018 shooting at a Quebec City mosque by a man believed to be influenced by far-right voices online, that investigation was reopened.
Across western democracies — including the U.S. and U.K. —intelligence agencies have warned the threat of domestic far-right extremism is growing.
In 2019, the federal government listed two white supremacist groups — Blood & Honour and Combat 18 — as terrorist entities, the first far-right extremist groups given that designation by Canada.
Now, in the wake of last week's violent sacking of the U.S. Capitol building, more white supremacists groups may join that list — which would empower financial institutions to freeze the groups' assets, and make it a crime to deal with them.
The Proud Boys — a "western chauvinist" group spawned by a former Canadian far-right media personality — were front and centre in that riot. Famously told to "stand back and stand by" by President Donald Trump last year, the loosely organized movement has become a poster child for right-wing extremism in North America.
While the exact makeup of the mob is unknowable, the Proud Boys clearly had a presence in Wednesday's assault on the Capitol building. Several have been identified by American media, and the group's leader was arrested in Washington two days before the riot.
Blair's office stressed that the listing of terrorist organizations is not a "political exercise." Rather, the designation of a group requires evidence and intelligence, and follows a legal process.
"Such listings send a strong message that Canada will not tolerate such acts of violence," Power wrote.
Cafeteria chefs pivot as pandemic hollows out office towers
When Ottawa's office buildings quickly emptied out near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cafeterias reliant on throngs of nine-to-five workers were left behind.
But while many shut down, some have found ways to stay afloat, in part through creativity and in part through loyal customers.
"It was a big shock for us," Juan Dominguez, chef at the cafeteria for Canadian Blood Services' corporate office, told CBC Radio's All In A Day on Friday.
"One day you're working and the next day you're out of there."
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Before the pandemic, Dominguez would send weekly menus out directly to his customers.
Then, when the office tower's employees started working from home, they began using that channel to reach out directly to tell him how much they missed his food.
"I was really shocked and surprised and happy at the same time," he said.
'Grateful' for loyal customers
Dominguez continued to send out menus — adding some combos to better accommodate entire families stuck together at home — and now people who place orders can pick them up from the corporate office's backdoor.
It's important to be able to reinvent oneself, he said, and never give up.
"Honestly, like, I'm so grateful for all the support that we receive from our customers and for all the relationships that we create with them since day one, [even before] the pandemic," he said.
Decided to grow side business
Resa Solomon-St. Lewis also lost her steady stream of customers when the pandemic hit — and unlike Dominguez, didn't have a way to reach them by email.
So the owner of Capital Fare Cafe, located inside a medical building along Montreal Road, chose to focus more on her side gig: a Caribbean-influenced catering business called Baccanalle
"It really didn't have a sign or a shingle on the door," she said. "It had more of an internet presence."
While Solomon-St. Lewis would like to return to the cafeteria, that can only happen when foot traffic is back to normal, she said.
For now, she hopes to expand Baccanalle, which allows her to focus on her love of Caribbean food.
"I have a lot of gratitude, especially to my team because we wouldn't be here without them," she said. "And they've been resilient and adaptable. And I'm really appreciative of the customers that have stayed with us… and the new customers that we've acquired."
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