Weekly News Recap: July 3, 2026

Weekly News Recap: July 3, 2026

Stephen Eustáquio celebrates with Canadian teammates after his stoppage-time goal defeated South Africa in the Round of 32 on Sunday. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. — Robert Service

SOME GOOD NEWS

  • VIDEO: Comeback City Ft. Stephen Curry, Larry June, Dominique Crenn, Joe Montana, Mayor Daniel Lurie & more (YouTube) This is a beautiful montage for all this who love SFO. "Comeback City. A Love Letter to San Francisco."

  • VIDEO: Out of the Audience, Into the Orchestra: Aspiring Musician Saves the Show (New York Times) I love that this talent was in the audience. #Magical "After a musician fell ill during a live performance of the score from 'La La Land,' the composer Justin Hurwitz asked for a sight reader. A 21-year-old student stepped up."

  • VIDEO: Opaskwayak Cree Nation restores Cree place names with new map of territory (CBC) MANITOBA STORY More please. This is a great act of reconciliation. Thanks to ViTreo Research Head, Ken Kempcke for sharing this story. "Opaskwayak Cree Nation has unveiled a first-of-its-kind map, showing the northern Manitoba First Nation's territory using traditional Cree place names. Most of the place names date back centuries, but many have never been printed on a map before."

  • VIDEO: Sask. veterinarian recruits chatty sheep to be blind llama's bestie (CBC) SASKATCHEWAN STORY I know some chatty "sheep". #Friendship "Laura Greaves wasn't sure what to expect when she put a call out on social media searching for a friendly, docile ewe in Saskatchewan. She wasn’t looking for a breeding ewe. She wanted a friend and companion for her 'beloved newly-blind llama.' Greaves is no stranger to caring for animals with special needs. The equine veterinarian has cared for creatures with all sorts of disabilities. But Maple the llama was a unique challenge that required some special help. That help came in the form of Peeps (short for Bo Peep), a friendly and rather chatty sheep from Eyebrow, Sask."

  • VIDEO: Ever heard Bohemian Rhapsody sung in ... Minionese? Viral clip has fans going bananas (CBC) #Hilarious "There have been countless renditions of Bohemian Rhapsody over the years, but this latest cover making the rounds may even have Freddie Mercury searching for the words: Queen's iconic anthem sung ... in Minionese. People are going, shall we say, bananas on social media over TikTok creator Ella Mott's rendition of the 1975 hit at Hollywood's Dolby [Theatre.]"

  • VIDEO: This good boy just wanted a hot dog | The Moment (CBC) #SadDog "Peter Silveira tells The National about the moment his dog Jonah caught the attention of the Miami Marlins because of his jealous face while he watched another dog scarf down a hotdog during a game."

  • British Paralympian could be first astronaut with physical disability to live in orbit (The Guardian) Another barrier broken. "A British Paralympian and surgeon could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit after the government signed a deal with a US company that is building a small commercial space station. John McFall, a member of the European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut reserve, was cleared for activities in orbit last year and could take part in a mission to the Haven-1 space station soon after its proposed launch in 2027."

  • ‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London (The Guardian) So great on every level. Thanks to Recap contributor Mick Mulloy for sharing this story. "Harry Ewing is heaping branches and foliage from the forest floor on to a dead hedge, reinforcing the protective circle around his newly planted trees in Hadley Wood, north London. He is in a glade created by a fallen oak that was previously overrun with thick bramble. 'I feel very happy – the trees are growing already. It’s really nice seeing it when it starts,' says Ewing. The 20-year-old is part of a group of young adults with learning disabilities who are transforming their environment and breaking into green sector jobs. They are working on a section of the London Tree Ring, an ambitious project to create corridors of plant and animal life around the capital."

  • VIDEO: ‘At first, the idea does sound crazy’: meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic (The Guardian) CANADIAN CONTENT Wouldn't it be great if we could rebuild the arctic ice? " 'It’s incredibly different, the boundary – I mean, you can point to it,' he says. The difference is the result of a bold geoengineering experiment being conducted by Ceccolini’s company, Real Ice, funded by the UK government. Pumping seawater on to Arctic sea ice in winter to help it last longer in summer. Five months earlier, the team had braved temperatures of -40C on the sea ice to drill holes and pump 50,000 tonnes of ocean water up on to its surface. It froze almost immediately, thickening the 1.5-metre-deep ice by about 50cm, according to the new measurements. That has protected the ice, at the start of the melt season at least, and is an early sign that one day, perhaps, it may be possible to refreeze a significant part of the Arctic."

  • VIDEO: In good news for coral reefs, scientists identify where the toughest ones are (CBC) Yay. "It's rare to get good news about coral reefs. Consider the majority of the world's reefs just went through more than two years of very stressful heat in a mass bleaching event, which was only recently declared over. And the relief will likely be short-lived, as the Pacific-warming phenomenon El Niño is now here — and it's looking like a strong one. But new research being presented at this week's Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, says there's a surprising strength to these organisms, even as climate change and other factors drive up ocean temperatures. 'Coral reefs are often framed as ecosystems beyond saving,' said study co-author Emily Darling, director of coral conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society. 'This research shows otherwise.' "

  • VIDEO: Canada Post stamps honour Bryan Trottier, other Indigenous sport leaders (CBC) CANADIAN STORY Well deserved. Congrats to a hockey great. "Hockey Hall of Famer Bryan Trottier will be featured on a Canada Post stamp to celebrate Indigenous leaders in sport. Stamps featuring Trottier, a six-time Stanley Cup champion as a player, Chief Wilton Littlechild and Edward Lennie were unveiled [...] at the Calgary Public Library. Canada Post launched the first of its Indigenous leaders stamp series in 2022 to highlight the contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people who have helped preserve their culture and improve the quality of life for Indigenous Peoples of Canada."

  • VIDEO: This B.C. teacher is teaching cursive — and helping students win national handwriting awards (CBC) BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY #LongLiveCursive "Anyone of a certain age can remember finally grasping the concept of printing letters, only to have the bomb of cursive writing dropped onto your desk not long after. For some, cursive was a way of improving on already impeccable handwriting, for others, it was another headache — and a skill they’d avoid as much as possible in the future. As keyboards were introduced, like the one this story is being typed on, the desire to learn cursive and even printing became less and less. But Teresa Keenan, who teaches first and second grade at Hume Elementary in Nelson, B.C., wasn’t about to give up on cursive."

TOP TEN STORIES OF THE WEEK

  1. VIDEO: New YMCA, library planned for Calgary’s West District (CTV) CALGARY STORY So exciting! Congrats to YMCA Calgary and to the Calgary Public Library. ViTreo is proud to be working with both of these leading organizations. "Plans have been unveiled for a new recreation centre and library in the Calgary community of West District. GEC Architecture has been chosen to design the proposed YMCA and Calgary Public Library location. GEC is the same group behind the Remington YMCA in Quarry Park and Olympic Oval at the University of Calgary."

  2. Stephen Eustáquio plays Canada's World Cup hero as last-minute goal defeats South Africa (CBC) CANADIAN STORY #Amazing "After all the subterfuge, after all the sleepless nights, Jesse Marsch reflected on his players before the most important game of their lives — before the first men’s World Cup knockout game in Canada’s history — and went with his runners. In every position, he took the fastest man he had. He went for lungs, and he went for legs. It was hearts that decided Sunday’s game in the end. Stephen Eustáquio — quiet, steady, unheralded — scored in the second minute of stoppage time to claim a historic, last-gasp 1-0 win for Canada."

  3. Unfortunate typo prompts removal of French-language posters from downtown Ottawa (CBC) OTTAWA STORY I love that we work in two languages but...I also feel for these folks. "An unfortunate typo on French-language posters promoting a public space improvement program has prompted their swift removal from Ottawa's downtown. The bright purple posters should have read "placettes publiques," French for small public squares or spaces, but they were printed without the critical L in the second word, turning 'publique' into 'pubique' — French for pubic."

  4. Calgary girl discovers rare 250-million-year-old sea star fossil at playground (Western Standard) CALGARY STORY What a find! #BuddingPaleontologist "A seven-year-old Calgary girl’s curiosity at a local playground has led to the discovery of a rare fossil that may be hundreds of millions of years old. Alyssa was playing at a Calgary park when she began examining medium-sized stacked boulders around the playground’s perimeter. While looking for bugs and collecting rocks, she noticed a dark shape embedded in the top of one of the stones. Fascinated by dinosaurs and palaeontology, Alyssa believed she had found something important and urged her parents to contact experts at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Museum officials confirmed the discovery was a rare sea star fossil, estimated to be between 250 million and 400 million years old and measuring approximately five centimetres across."

  5. Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights (CBC) QUEBEC STORY 'The Secret Life of Trees' comes to life. This is terrific. "A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada. A resolution adopted by Terrasse-Vaudreuil city council [...] declares that trees are worthy of protection, 'including the right to life, to natural growth, to integrity and to regeneration.' "

  6. VIDEO: Massive sturgeon reeled in on B.C.’s Fraser River | The Moment (CBC) BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY For the fishing crowd, this is pretty cool. "Fishing guide Kevin Estrada tells The National about the moment his Sturgeon Slayer tour group caught and released a massive 11-foot white sturgeon on B.C.’s Fraser River."

  7. 1st bison calves born at Batoche in nearly 150 years get Michif names (CBC) SASKATCHEWAN STORY Nice! "Michif language students from the Batoche area joined Métis leaders for a naming ceremony to welcome 16 new calves to the Batoche bison herd. The calves are the first bison born in the Batoche area in almost 150 years, Métis elders told students from St. Louis, Duck Lake and Bellevue, Sask. Earlier this year, students from across the province were invited to help name the calves. In 2023, Métis Nation—Saskatchewan (MN-S) partnered with Parks Canada to bring 25 yearlings to Batoche from a herd at Grasslands National Park. They added 50 more last year."

  8. How Americans view the U.S.-Canada relationship (Ipsos) Interesting poll. "The first University of Calgary/Ipsos poll was conducted March 27-29, 2026, by Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel®. The poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 1,021 general population adults aged 18 or older. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for results based on the entire sample of adults. The second University of Calgary/Ipsos poll was conducted April 24-27, 2026, by Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel®. The poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 1,022 general population adults aged 18 or older. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for results based on the entire sample of adults."

  9. VIDEO: SpaceX: The IPO where the math doesn't matter | About That (CBC) "SpaceX became a publicly traded company, making founder Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Andrew Chang takes a closer look at all the numbers to explore what investors are betting on, and breaks down the risks that come with such a future-facing company."

  10. Time to clutch your pearls: Theatre etiquette is changing (CBC) CANADIAN STORY "On opening night of the Paranormal Activity stage show in Toronto this June, someone booed the lead actor in the middle of his performance. The jeerer didn't seem dissatisfied with acting, just the choices of the character on stage. Other members of the audience immediately started shushing, and many later went online to voice their outrage and lament the death of theatre etiquette."

SEVEN LIFE AND CAREER HACKS

  1. What Composed Executives Do in the Five Seconds Before a Senior Meeting (Marybeth Hazeldine) A great leadership read.

  2. The 132 Rule: Why Senior Audiences Read the Bottom-Right Corner Before the Body (Marybeth Hazeldine) I might need to redesign some of my slide decks...

  3. Tolkien, the Lord of the Languages (Language) I find Tolkien fascinating and this is one of the many reasons why.

  4. What’s the ‘Ideal Amount’ of Exercise Per Week? (Latest Research) (Scott Young) Hint: don't go hard everyday.

  5. How to learn anything faster than 99% of people (Mental Garden) We can all use the gift of time.

  6. The Wild Worlds of Geometry (Science Spectrum) Geometry nerds (I am one) rejoice.

  7. Time Might Not Exist. Physics Is Starting to Admit It. (Shriprasad Wagh) Whew! Now, I don't need to worry about that deadline :-)

TOP THREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK

  1. Canadian philanthropist endows tuition fund for Toronto day school to honor slain parents (Jewish Philanthropy) "Kaelen Sherman has donated CAD 25 million ($17.6 million) to establish a fund to provide tuition assistance to students of the Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, in honor of her parents, Honey and Barry Sherman, who were killed in 2017, according to the UJA-Federation of Toronto, which facilitated the gift."
  2. $3M donation expands care home in Ponteix (Swift Current Online) PONTEIX STORY What a wonderful gift from these nuns. "A $3-million donation from the Sisters of Notre Dame d'Auvergne will fund the addition of 10 long-term care beds at Foyer St. Joseph Nursing Home in Ponteix, expanding care capacity in southwest Saskatchewan. The gift, described as a legacy contribution from the religious congregation, will increase the facility's capacity from 32 to 42 residents once construction is complete."
  3. Miranda Kerr and billionaire husband Evan Spiegel erase $550 million in debt after incredible donation (Hello Magazine) #Nice "Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr and her husband Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat, have donated a multi-million dollar donation that will help pay off $550 million of medical debt for families in California."

MOST POPULAR RECENT STORIES

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