About 25% of Canada's internet has gone offline this morning. The cause is up for grabs. Some say it is a cyber attack on Rogers cable and others are speculating a software update gone wrong. Who knows, but many places apparently do not have internet or debit/credit service as well.
And former Japanese Prime Minister Abe has been assassinated by a former Japanese SDF veteran who made his own gun. Even nations with the tightest gun control on Earth suffer violence.
I have been reading about both of these happenings. Apparently some of the banks, both in Canada and in the United States are having problems because of the widespread outages. One lady on my facebook page said that he bank could not even find her account for her mortgage payment, and another person said that he could deposit money but was not allowed to withdraw any. Th picture that they shows of the homemade gun looked like two short pieces of pipe taped together, and not something that a person would think was a gun at first glance, although you would wonder what it actually was. The pictures showed that the assassin was directly behind Abe when he shot and killed him, so it is surprising that his security was not better than that.
Have you found a definite cause, @Yvonne Smith for the outage? Zip guns were made in fairly large numbers beginning in the 1950s I think. This was perhaps a large version of a zip gun but I don't know what the ammo was or if he made the ammo or muzzle loaded the piece.
Here is a picture of the homemade weapon, and the shooter had another one at his home, so he may have had more victims in mind to assassinate than just PM Abe. You can see in the pictures that he literally walked up behind Abe and none of the security even paid any attention to him until after the shooting. There are good pictures and video on Twitter.