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The Hawks and Eskom uncovered a 'ghost vending' syndicate selling illicit prepaid electricity, costing Eskom millions in revenue.

A “ghost” Eskom electricity vendor offered a policeman a R100 000 bribe and was charged with corruption when the Hawks swooped on a major syndicate at the crack of dawn on Wednesday. “The joint team traced and disrupted the criminal network responsible for large-scale pre-paid electricity fraud and theft,” Nkwalase said. He said said the arrests had been effected during the first phase of the project driven investigation carried out by the Free State Hawks Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team in concert with Eskom investigators, Hawks Digital Forensic Investigation (DFI), Tacti...

The Hawks have uncovered a well-organised syndicate selling illicit prepaid electricity on a large scale costing Eskom millions in revenue, and arrested seven suspects.

For the Juno Awards 50th anniversary, CBC Ottawa has spoken to some past winners and nominees with ties to the national capital region about the venues that helped them hone their chops. Today we look at some of the venues that shaped the scene in the 2010s.

OTTAWA -- Jim Hurcomb’s written a love letter. It’s a tribute to Ottawa’s great musicians of the 1950s and 60s—performers who gave Ottawa a golden era of rock ‘n roll. “It was really an unprecedented time. Someone called Ottawa Liverpool North in the 1960’s. The musicians and fans knew this. And thanks to the book, nobody’s going to forget it,” said Hurcomb. The book is called “Rockin’ on the Rideau: Ottawa’s Golden Age of Rock and Roll”. It’s fitting that Jim Hurcomb is spinning this musical story. The legendary Ottawa radio broadcaster has been spinning di...