Weekly News Recap: February 18, 2022

Weekly News Recap: February 18, 2022

At the start of Thursday’s game, Canada had scored 54 goals, an Olympic tournament record.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

A boy told me I skated like a girl, I told him that if he skated a little faster he could too! -- HockeyQuotes

SOME GOOD NEWS

  • Lions become 1st CFL team to hire full-time female coach, adding Walter to staff (CBC) BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY Congrats! "The B.C. Lions are the first CFL team to hire a full-time female coach, adding Tanya Walter as a defensive assistant [...] The native of Forestburg, Alta., began coaching at Edmonton's St. Francis Xavier High School in Edmonton in 2017 and continued through last season."

  • Women uplifting each other gave Canada’s Brooke d’Hondt a reason to keep going (CBC) CANADIAN STORY Such a great good news story. Thanks to Jennifer Ingham for sharing this story. "When American competitor Arielle Gold pulled out of the X Games to give alternate Brooke d’Hondt a spot, she knew that being a role model for other girls was just as important as winning a snowboard medal."

  • It's wet mitt season. Here's who invented the thing that's saving our winter (CBC) CANADIAN STORY #CanadiansInnovate "If you want to dry out your sopping wet winter boots and mitts without turning on the dryer, you may want to use a specially designed rack that sits on a forced-air register. Canadians know it does the job beautifully."

  • This Olympic-inspired ice sculpture in Banff aims to 'defy gravity,' say artists (CBC) BANFF STORY Beautiful. "If you go to the Lake Louise ski resort, you'll find some ski jumpers who aren't making their way down the mountain, but who are frozen in flight. Standing eight feet tall and 10 feet wide, the sculpture of two skiers and the Olympic torch was carved from 15 large blocks of ice."

  • Dazzling ice fishing shack made from stained glass — and childhood memories (CBC) ROCKY HARBOUR STORY #Stunning "Rocky Harbour-based artist Urve Manuel has realized a dream piece. She's recreated an ice fishing shack, like the one her grandfather used to pull onto the ice in the wintertime — only hers is made of glass."

  • This Mohawk woman is translating nursery rhymes to share her language with kids — and caregivers, too (CBC) SIX NATIONS STORY This is a lovely story of reconciliation. "Like other Indigenous people in the early stages of reclaiming traditions, Kristi Talbot, a Mohawk woman with ties to the Six Nations community in Ontario, is prioritizing language revitalization. [...] Talbot, who is a new mother, is translating nursery rhymes into Kanien'keha (Mohawk) to share with her daughter and other families. It's part of the process of bringing inherited blood memory of culture and language back to the surface."

  • Rescued after 2 months in remote B.C. wilderness, Bear Henry survived on canned food and hope (CBC) VANCOUVER ISLAND STORY "A 37-year-old missing for more than two months in a heavily forested area of Vancouver Island says they survived on beans, rice, peanut butter, tomato sauce and other canned food. Bear Henry, a member of Penelakut First Nation who uses the pronoun they, was last seen on Nov. 27, 2021, while on their way to an old-growth logging protest at Fairy Creek."

  • Dogs Can’t Help Falling in Love (New York Times) I love dogs for this and so many other reasons. "No one disputes the sociability of dogs. But Dr. Wynne doesn’t agree with the scientific point of view that dogs have a unique ability to understand and communicate with humans. He thinks they have a unique capacity for interspecies love, a word that he has decided to use, throwing aside decades of immersion in scientific jargon."

  • Teens saved after falling through ice near firefighter rescue training (BBC) #RightPlace #RightTime #Lucky "Firefighters were doing ice rescue training when two teenagers fell through the ice in a Missouri lake. Drone footage captured the dramatic mission to bring the boys safely back to shore. Fire officials sprung into action when the youngsters, aged 15 and 17, ran across the lake. The ice beneath them broke within 15 seconds. Officials say they were on the brink of hypothermia, and lucky to be rescued quickly."

  • Wordle Saves Elderly Woman From Kidnapping (Kotaku) "A 32-year-old man in Lincolnwood, Illinois was arrested by police after breaking into an elderly woman’s home and holding her hostage for 17 hours. Police were called by the woman’s family to do a wellness check after she failed to send her daughter the usual morning Wordle puzzle."

TOP TEN STORIES OF THE WEEK

  1. Canada reclaims the women’s hockey gold, dethroning the U.S. (New York Times) CANADIAN STORY #GoCanadaGo "All through the Beijing Games, the unchecked swagger of Canada’s women’s hockey team had been conspicuous for all to see — and to admire, fume over and fear. There were the humiliations of the teams that would play for the bronze medal, the edgy digs at rivals, the nuanced critiques of the failed strategies to score on Ann-Renée Desbiens, the goaltender who made the Canadian crease a fortress. The Canadians proved Thursday that all of it was justified: They overpowered the United States in the gold medal game, 3-2, and reclaimed the Olympic crown that the Americans had wrested away four years ago."

  2. Who Got Elon Musk’s Billions? (New York Times) Classic Elon. #Enigma "In an inconspicuous fashion — via a regulatory filing with the S.E.C. — Elon Musk disclosed that he gave nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla shares to charity last year, instantly propelling him into the upper ranks of philanthropic donors. But the document gave little information about where the Tesla C.E.O. directed his wealth."

  3. The call was fishy, so she hung up. It was actually a local nonprofit’s dream donor (The News Tribune) Guess who? "The large anonymous donation seemed like a hoax, Colleen Speer told the Peninsula School Board. The executive director of Communities in Schools of Peninsula explained she got a call Dec. 9 from a number she didn’t recognize."

  4. Which Matters More: Hiring Superstars or Removing Toxic Employees? Harvard Research Reveals the Surprising AnswerWhat kind of worker most impacts your bottom line? (Inc.) Great article! Thanks to Emmy Stuebing for sharing. "Superstar employees are invaluable. As founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers Art Rooney once said, 'You can never overpay a good player. You can only overpay a bad one. I don't mind paying a good player $200,000. What I mind is paying a $20,000 player $22,000.' Great employees? They're worth a lot more to your teams, your customers, and your bottom line than average employees.Truly exceptional employees? They're worth significantly more than average employees. Or not."

  5. Largest-ever crypto donation to BC SPCA comes from Kelowna firm (Kelowna Daily Courier) BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY #Cool #CryptoCool "A Kelowna company that produces non-fungible tokens has donated more than $100,000 to the BC SPCA. RuffLife Rescues made 8,888 unique pieces of dog-themed virtual art and sold them on the Solana Network, a cryptocurrency trading platform. Forty percent of the proceeds, equivalent to $101,357.91, were then turned over to the BC SPCA. It’s the largest donation ever made to a charity using Solano in [Canada.]"

  6. Canada’s charitable sector: What to expect in 2022 (The Philanthropist) CANADIAN STORY "The Philanthropist Journal asked sector leaders what you need to know in the midst of 2022’s shifts and uncertainties. Here are 12 things they say will be top of mind in the year ahead."

  7. How science is uncovering the secrets of Stonehenge (The Guardian) "Among the many treasures in the British Museum’s forthcoming Stonehenge exhibition is a collection of carved and polished spherical stones, each about the size of a cricket ball. The stones are 5,000 years old and have mostly been found singly in Scotland. The most famous of the 400 or so discoveries is a beautiful polished black sphere from Towie, Aberdeenshire, with three bulbous surfaces, tactile as a miniature Henry Moore. The sphere is carved with precise geometric whorls and spirals. In common with the much weightier neolithic monuments that the Stonehenge exhibition celebrates, the longer you look at the stones, the more mysterious they seem: what and why and how?"

  8. The Discovery of Insulin: A Story of Monstrous Egos and Toxic Rivalries (The Conversation) CANADIAN STORY The story of Banting, Best, Macleod, and Collip is a thrilling one; first of discovery, second of huge humanitarian import, and third of massive vainglory. "When Frederick Banting’s phone rang one morning in October 1923, it was the call that every scientist must dream of receiving. On the other end of the line, an excited friend asked Banting if he had seen the morning newspapers. When Banting said no, his friend broke the news himself. Banting had just been awarded the Nobel prize for his discovery of insulin. [...] Banting told his friend to 'go to hell' and slammed the receiver down. Then he went out and bought the morning paper. Sure enough, there in the headlines he saw in black and white that his worst fears had come true: he had indeed been awarded the Nobel – but so too had his boss, John Macleod, professor of physiology at the University of Toronto."

  9. Capilano University's Sunshine Coast kálax-ay campus welcomes its first Elder (Coast Reporter) NORTH VANCOUVER STORY "shíshálh Nation Elder Robert Joe sees the potential for a role reversal as he takes on his new post at Capilano University’s kálax-ay campus. Joe is kálax-ay’s first Elder and was celebrated in a welcoming ceremony held on-[campus.] 'We want to turn it around, intertwine our teaching, our culture, our way of life. You guys learn from us the way it was, not the non-natives telling us what it was like,' he told the crowd of socially distanced invitees. 'To be invited to be an Elder – them with open arms – is humbling,' Joe told Coast Reporter. 'It’s an honour. I want to help teach our culture in what I believe is the right way and the stories that a lot of non-natives, they don’t know.'"

  10. 'Itty bitty cuts of memories' come together in memorial moosehide purse (CBC) CHISASIBI STORY Wow! "For years, the late Phyllis Sam Matthew of Chisasibi, Que., kept small bits of moosehide in a heavy cotton pillowcase. An avid sewer and beader, she was also staying true to the Cree traditional value of using every last bit of a harvest. She knew the pieces of moosehide would one day come in handy. In the spring of 2017 they did, when her daughter Hannah Snowboy stitched them together into a very special gift for her younger sister, Patricia Matthew."

SEVEN LIFE AND CAREER HACKS

  1. The One Hour of Your Day That Will Make or Break Your Sleep (In Fitness And In Health) Sleep defines us. How we work, achieve, and succeed depends greatly on the quality and amount of sleep you get. And that last hour before bed...

  2. 14 Mark Twain Quotes That (If Applied) Will Change the Way You See the World Forever (Illumination) Timeless and well-worth revisiting. You're welcome.

  3. The 9 Most Influential Free Tools I Use for My Business (Content Cafe) Some old standbys like Canva, Grammarly, and Google Drive and six others that are just as great.

  4. If I Had to Read Only 5 Books Till I Die, I’d Read These (Books Are Our Superpower) A smart list. Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is on this list.

  5. My Doctor Asked Me to Eat Two Bananas Daily — This Is What Happened (In Fitness And In Health) Bananas get a bad rap. I am revisiting this amazing fruit.

  6. Keeping a Writer’s Notebook (The Write Brain) If you don't write for yourself, you will have trouble writing for others.

  7. A Beginners Guide to Using Email to Build Your Business (The Startup) Ah, poor email. Turns out it can be quite helpful after all. Read on!

TOP THREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK

  1. Trillium Health receives largest-ever charitable gift to a hospital (Toronto Star) MISSISSAUGA STORY #Boom "Mississauga will become home to one of the largest hospitals in Canada in 2025, thanks, in part, to a historic multimillion-dollar charitable gift. The $105 million donation from the Peter Gilgan Foundation — the largest charitable gift to a hospital in Canadian history — will allow Trillium Health Partners to improve two of its three sites, Mississauga Hospital and Queensway Health Centre, with the former set to be demolished and rebuilt and the latter having a new facility added to its grounds. These developments are also part of a 10-year, $30.2 billion investment in Ontario hospitals by the provincial government."

  2. Juravinskis celebrate Valentine’s Day with $5.1M health-care gift to Hamilton (Global News) HAMILTON STORY Lovely gift from the heart. "Hamilton’s health-care sector received a multi-million dollar Valentine’s Day gift from philanthropists Charles and Margaret Juravinski. On Monday the pair donated $5.1 million to the Juravinski Research Institute, a partnership between Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. The investment will support studies focused on child and youth health, integrated care, and burn trauma."

  3. Université Laval: Un ancien professeur offre un million à la Faculté de droit (Le Journal de Montréal) LAVAL STORY C'est incroyable! "Un ancien professeur à la retraite de l’Université Laval vient de donner 1 million $ à la Faculté de droit de l’établissement. Il devient donc le donateur individuel le plus généreux de l’histoire de cette faculté. Après avoir enseigné le droit pendant 42 ans, Jacques Deslauriers a décidé de redonner aux étudiants. Son don est destiné au fonds qui porte son nom à l’Université Laval, dont l’objectif est d’encourager l’excellence à la maîtrise en droit civil."

LAST WEEK'S MOST POPULAR STORIES

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