Canadians are marking the 60th anniversary of the inauguration of their flag with a defiant sense of patriotism.

A Google services outage this week and potential impacts from a snowstorm in the Northeast highlight the fragile chain of connectivity that's powering widespread remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. One Ohio school superintendent called Monday's Google outage the COVID version of a snow day." “Google is down across the globe, which is the COVID version of a snow day,” Superintendent Joe Clark tweeted to followers from his Nordonia Hills City School District in northern Ohio. Teacher Becky Richter said high school students in her first class that day had trouble accessing Google Classroom for about half an hour, as well as their Zoom video meeting, which uses Google logins. Rarely, it could be due to malicious attacks, but that didn't appear to be the case with Google on Monday.