Montreal bail hearing on sex charge for Peter Nygard delayed by Rogers outage

Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard's Montreal court appearance on sex-related charges has been put off due to the Rogers Communications network outage. Prosecutor Jerome Laflamme says it is impossible to have Nygard, who is detained in a Toronto jail, appear in court by videoconference due to the outage at the Toronto-based telecommunications company. Laflamme says Nygard will appear in Quebec court next week for a bail hearing, but a date was not set. Nygard faces one count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement in Quebec.

He also faces six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement in Toronto. Authorities in the United States have asked for him to be extradited to face sex-related charges in that country.

QUITE A COINCIDENCE THAT ALL OF MONTREAL’S INTERNET GOES DOWN JUST AS NYGARD’S TRIAL STARTS

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https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/rogers-experiencing-massive-service-outages-1.5979467

Rogers service ‘starting to recover’ after Canada-wide outage
Rogers says its wireless and internet services “are starting to recover” after a day-long outage across wide swathes of Canada.
A Rogers spokesperson told CP24 that engineers and technicians were “working hard to get everyone back online as quickly as possible.”

“As our services and traffic volumes return to normal, we will continue to keep our customers updated.”
Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said the company could not say exactly when that moment would come.
“We don’t yet have an ETA on when our networks will be fully restored but we will continue to share information with our customers as we restore full service.”
The firm did not say what caused their service to go down on Friday but Staffieri said they would investigate “the root cause of this outage.”
Also on Friday evening, a senior spokesperson for Rogers told CTV News Toronto they would be “proactively crediting all customers” for their trouble with details to be announced later.
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When is Rogers going to be fixed?
Federal Innovation Minister Francois Phillippe Champagne told CP24 on Friday night he had word that “that suggests that some service may have been re-established.”
But he said the network was not fully operational yet and the length of the outage was not acceptable.

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