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12 – A police watchdog’s two-year review concluded relations between First Nations and police in Thunder Bay, Ontario were in a crisis state. The report said the police department is beset with racist attitudes toward Indigenous people, something the Office of the Independent Police Review Director calls deeply troubling. Director Gerry McNeilly made 44 recommendations, including reinvestigating the deaths of nine Indigenous people.

The regulator also disallowed historic cost overruns of R72.3-billion associated with the Medupi, Kusile and Ingula projects. However, Eskom will be given an opportunity to prove to the Energy Regulator that the overruns were prudently incurred.

This all makes it closer to a Tesla than to a Fiat 500e or a number of other EVs from mainstream manufacturers that use normal car platforms modified to be electric. Those cars tend to have batteries crammed under seats and other drive components sandwiched where an internal combustion engine would be. That and they’re usually front-wheel drive only.

23 – China opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge – 55 kilometres – linking Hong Kong to the mainland.

Volkswagen hasn’t revealed exactly how much horsepower its MEB vehicles will have, but the company mentions in its press literature that the rear-wheel drive I.D. concept car shown at the Paris Motor Show in 2016 had an output of 125 kW, or about 168 horsepower, and after speaking with VW, Autoweek wrote that the front motor on all-wheel drive MEB models could have median outputs of between 55 and 65 horsepower.

26 – Stephen Hillenburg, the former marine biology teacher who thought up, wrote, produced and directed the animated hit “SpongeBob SquarePants” died at age 57.

22 – Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province would continue to fund overdose-prevention sites but would shift their focus to also include a longer-term goal of helping drug users receive treatment and rehabilitation services.

VW plans to build 150,000 electric cars in 2020, (100,000 of which will be the I.D. compact car and I.D. SUV, which are both expected to premiere in 2020), offer 27 all-new EV models across four brands by 2022, and offer an electric version of every single one of its 300+ models by 2030. In total, the company expects to build at least 10 million EVs based on this new MEB platform, and Reuters reported last month that this could go up to 15 million.

Hydracorte also has a compact Trumpf VectorMark station for laser marking of pieces. This station is capable of marking with high quality onto a wide variety of parts in different sizes, shapes, materials, and all kinds of graphic contents (serial numbers, barcodes, logos, etc.).

The city has records for the material for its pipes but no records for what was installed on private property.

23 – The federal government reached a financial settlement with two of four Indigenous men from northern Manitoba who were switched at birth and only found out about the mixup 40 years later. Neither Ottawa nor the lawyer for Luke Monias and Norman Barkman would reveal how much money the men would receive.

Many students study chemical engineering with the aspiration of someday inventing an innovative process that could be a true game changer. As we all know, creating a new process is quite complex. Compared to the rapid pace of advancements in other progressive industries, such as consumer electronics, telecommunications, software and automotive, in the world of high-volume, low-margin commodity chemicals, higher-value specialty chemicals and newer sustainable chemicals, process development and commercialization are more methodical and time-consuming.