Weekly News Recap: February 3, 2023

Weekly News Recap: February 3, 2023

Some of the young Ukrainian hockey players look out over the arena in Quebec City. After months of planning, they were able to travel to Canada to participate in an international hockey competition.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. -- Mahatma Gandhi

FUNDRAISING IS AWESOME

  • AUDIO: AFP Canada Media Spokesperson Dane Bland on CBC Maritime Noon Radio (CBC) Bob Murphy in conversation with AFP media spokesperson Dane Bland and Managing Director of Charity Intelligence Canada Kate Bahen. Dane does a great job of speaking to our narrative. Well done.

  • VIDEO: Everything you know about change…is about to change (UncharitableMovie.com) #AndNowItsAMovie "A first of its kind documentary film with Edward Norton, Dan Pallotta, the founders of Invisible Children, Wounded Warrior Project, Last Mile Health, Charity:Water, Crisis Text Line, the heads of the Ford Foundation, TED, The Bridgespan Group, The Nature Conservancy, No Kid Hungry, One Love Foundation, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, United Way of Greater Atlanta, and more."

SOME GOOD NEWS

  • Canada Post honours Chloe Cooley with stamp for Black History Month (CTV) "As Black History Month gets underway, Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp honouring Chloe Cooley, a young Black woman who was known to challenge her enslavement in the late 18th century. Cooley lived in Queenston, Upper Canada, a region where enslavement was on the rise at the time but attitudes toward the practice were beginning to shift and the abolitionist movement was also growing."

  • Amsterdam’s underwater parking garage fits 7,000 bicycles and zero cars (The Verge) Now, this is a civilized society. #BikesRule "Maybe one day, flying cars and jetpacks will be the hallmarks of futuristic cities, but today — in 2023 — it’s massive underwater bicycle parking garages like the one that just opened at Amsterdam’s Centraal Station. The structure has space for 6,300 personal bicycles and 700 more for bikeshares to facilitate the first or last mile of rail journeys. Capacity will expand to 11,000 bicycles when a second garage opens in February."

  • Ants Can Sniff Out Cancer (Scientific American) I do believe the future of medicine is biotech. And this is pretty bad-ass biotech. "Ants don’t have a nose, but that doesn’t stop them from sniffing out cancer. Thanks to an abundance of olfactory receptors on their antennae, the insects have an incredible sense of smell—and they can use it to detect tumors."

  • You can now sponsor refugees yourself. Here’s how. (Vox) Looks like they are taking a page out of Canada's refugee sponsorship program. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation. #WellDoneAmerica "America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality."

  • 'Mission accomplished': Ukrainian peewee hockey team arrives in Canada for Quebec tournament (CBC) This makes my heart swell. #SlavaUkriaini "Outfitted in matching tracksuits, 18 Ukrainian kids' jaws dropped as they saw the rink at the Vidéotron Centre in Quebec City for the first time. The 11 and 12-year-old boys had been travelling for over 24 hours, but some gasped as others looked wide-eyed seeing the size of the arena they will play in as part of the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament."

  • VIDEO: Adelie penguin chicks steal the spotlight at Mexico's Guadalajara Zoo (CBC) #Cuteness "Six Adelie chicks, born after an egg exchange with San Diego's Sea World to ensure genetic diversity, feel at home in Guadalajara's zoo, one of the few on the continent that takes care of this Antarctic species. Out of 12 eggs, half have hatched."

  • VIDEO: Muslim women share why they choose to wear a hijab in new short film (CBC) #Beautiful "A new short film examines misconceptions around the hijab and why some Muslim women in Edmonton choose to wear the head covering. The film World Hijab Day shares its name with an annual event that was founded in 2013."

  • VIDEO: B.C. lynx captured on camera playing with rope swing in Trail backyard (Global News) Once a cat, always a cat. "Global News viewer Kimberly Heppner captured video of a lynx playing with a rope swing at her West Kootenay home."

  • VIDEO: Someone call Guy Fieri — this B.C. diner serves Canadian and Chinese classics in a lumber yard (CBC) Oh man, I want to eat here! "'Our house is your house.' That's the motto of Northern Cafe, which was recently named the top place to eat in Canada by review site Yelp. The café, which sits on the banks of the Fraser River near the Knight Street Bridge in south Vancouver, is tucked away on top of a hardware store in the middle of a lumber yard. A narrow staircase can be found at 1640 East Kent Ave. South that customers have been climbing for over 60 years so they can plop into red vinyl booths and dig into classic diner eats."

  • 'Living is an honour': Bond between world's oldest Holocaust-surviving siblings forged in brutal time (CBC) We are honoured by their lives. "They are believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings anywhere in the world, and they live in Winnipeg. Sisters Ruth Zimmer, 96, Anne Novak, 99, Sally Singer, 101, and their brother Sol Fink, 97, grew up in Sanok, in southeastern Poland, before the Second World War forever changed their family. Today the surviving siblings share an unbreakable bond — and a similarly strong desire to tell their story. 'Living is an honour. I'm not ashamed to tell everyone how old I am because it's good to live,' Novak said during a recent interview at Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence, which the sisters call home these days."

  • Rod Stewart calls Sky News offering to pay for NHS hospital scans (The Guardian) "Rod Stewart called a phone-in segment on Sky News to offer to pay for people to have hospital scans, amid the rising number of people on NHS waiting lists."

  • VIDEO: WWII vet gets over 100 cards for his 100th birthday (CBC) Happy Birthday George. We thank you for your service. "George Bedard turned 100 years old Tuesday and a nurse at the long-term care section at the Wakefield Memorial Hospital planned a special celebration for him. The World War II veteran was honoured with cake, gifts and over 100 cards from members of the community."

TOP TEN STORIES OF THE WEEK

  1. Announcing the 2023 Spirit of Manatee Honorees (Manatee Community Foundation) I am proud to call Bob a friend, a mentor, and a colleague. Congrats to both of you. Well deserved. "Bob and Carol Carter, known for their philanthropic leadership nationwide and locally, will receive the Mary E. Parker Lifetime Spirit Award. Nominated by Meals on Wheels PLUS and The Center on Anna Maria Island, the Carters have played decades-long roles in charitable giving—making personal contributions, leading and informing campaigns, volunteering, and inspiring others to contribute to the community."

  2. 'Definitely surreal': Calgary entrepreneur meets Queen Consort Camilla in new military role (CBC) #PompAndCircumstance "It was a day that Calgary entrepreneur Manjit Minhas won't forget. Best known for her role as co-founder and CEO of Minhas Breweries, Distilleries and Winery, Minhas met with Queen Consort Camilla yesterday at Buckingham Palace as part of her new role as honourary lieutenant-colonel. She was appointed to the three-year role by the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada [(QOR).]"

  3. Athabasca University board fires president who fought Alberta government on staff relocations (CBC) "Peter Scott, the Athabasca University president who openly defied the province's direction to drop the institution's move to virtual operations, was fired by the school's board of governors Wednesday. The board appointed Alex Clark, the university's dean of the faculty of health disciplines, to succeed him."

  4. The grocery price freeze is over — so brace yourself for even bigger food bills soon (CBC) #Ugh "The holiday price freeze put in place by some of Canada's biggest grocery chains has hit its expiry date, so shoppers should brace themselves for news that could be hard to swallow: get ready for your food bill to go up. By a lot. Again."

  5. After more than 3 decades, West Edmonton Mall's Mindbender roller-coaster closes for good (CBC) I rode it before they had the accident and after. #WasAThrill "The Mindbender roller-coaster, a fixture for decades at Galaxyland in West Edmonton Mall, has come to the end of its triple-looped track. [The] mall confirmed the closure of the "iconic" roller-coaster that had thrilled riders since it opened in 1985."

  6. Calgary downtown vacancies drop to 27% (CBC) Woo hoo! #Finally "A new report from commercial real estate broker Avison Young shows the worst of Calgary's empty downtown core may be behind us. The latest fourth quarter 2022 office vacancy numbers sat at 27.2 per cent – down 2.5 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2021. Adam Hayes, a principal of occupier services at Avison Young, says the improvements come from momentum built in 2021 along with a return to work in the second year of the pandemic. 'Combine that with a much more healthy commodity cycle in Calgary, leading to some mergers and acquisitions, some job growth, and the green shoots of the tech industry, overall, it was a really positive year for Calgary,' he said."

  7. Calgary's Arts and Culture Sector is Booming - So Why Aren't We Celebrating It More? (Marketing News Canada) "For decades, Calgary has been known for its contributions to Canada’s energy sector. The late 1990s ushered in the heyday of the oil and gas boom, an economic turning point that has shaped the city’s identity. But it wasn’t always that way; Calgary’s art scene was vibrant in the early 90s with alternative music clubs, including The Republik, The Night Gallery, and The Westward Club. Artists filled the city, occupying the second floors of several Stephen Avenue historic buildings. With the oil and gas boom came a departure from the city’s history and culture in favour of economic progress. Today, we’re seeing a return to our roots."

  8. Rare Canadian stamp sells for just under $300K (CBC) I used to be a stamp collector as a kid. I still love stamps and I remember seeing this one in a catalogue. Not at $300K but still..."A rare Canadian stamp sold for $292,500 at an Ottawa auction last weekend. Issued more than 170 years ago in 1851, the auctioned 12-Penny Black stamp was considered to be in pristine condition — and said to be one of only two of its kind in such a state — and features the image of Queen Victoria. Only about 1,450 were sold at the time so it's a rare gem, said Peter MacDonald, the general manager of Sparks Auctions."

  9. ‘They provide the human touch’: Vecova embarks on an ambitious Calgary expansion (Livewire Calgary) Vecova is awesome. Congrats all around. "In order to meet the demand for services, Vecova has plans for a new, $122 million facility. [When] complete, it will triple their programming capacity. That would mean roughly a million visits per year. It will allow them to expand their programming. They want to get started on the project as soon as possible. The city, through the recent budget, got the ball rolling with an $8.5 million land contribution and $9.1 million in cash."

  10. Sport Chek pulls out of Edmonton City Centre as mall highlights 'significant safety issues' (CTV) Safety in downtown Edmonton has increasingly become a problem. I am there regularly and I have a pretty high tolerance for sketchy and even I have not felt safe. "One of the biggest tenants in Edmonton City Centre (ECC) mall is closing its doors for good. Sport Chek and Atmosphere will close permanently on March 12. When reached for comment, the company did not provide a reason for the store closing. Sean Kirk, ECC general manager, told CTV News Edmonton he’s disappointed by the news, adding the mall's ownership group has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in downtown Edmonton, but is hesitant to invest more because of safety issues." RELATED: Alberta to send sheriffs to Edmonton's downtown core amid ongoing safety concerns.

SEVEN LIFE AND CAREER HACKS

  1. Curious about intermittent fasting? Here's what experts say you should know (CBC) Everyone I know who has tried it has seen good benefits.

  2. Cause and Effect Diagram (Mike Wills) Another great way to analyze qualitative data.

  3. 5 Magnificent Non-Negotiable Things Which Changed My Life For Good (Illumination) All good but #3 and #4 are right in my wheelhouse.

  4. The Benefits of Working From Home: How It Can Help Your Career (Umar Hameed) In case you had not noticed.

  5. This 4-Minute Exercise Will Change The Way You Read Books (Publishious) Personally, I do read more than one book at a time; I am currently reading three. I also will dump a book if I don't like it.

  6. Move More, Do More: How Exercise Surprisingly Expands Your Time (Mind Cafe) I always always feel and work better after exercise.

  7. Habits and Tools (Habits and Tools) The habits are pretty standard but the tools are the bomb.

TOP THREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK

  1. Milwaukee Rep receives $5M donation for new student, community space (NBC) "The Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation donated $5 million to Milwaukee Repertory Theater's renovation into its new theater and education [complex.]"

  2. New York Law School receives $10 million from Arthur, Diane Abbey (Philanthropy News Digest) "New York Law School (NYLS) has announced a $10 million gift from alumnus Arthur Abbey (’59) and his wife, Diane, one of the largest donations in the law school’s 132-year history."

  3. Binghamton University receives $37M donation to be used for students (WBNG) Nice anonymous gift! "In his State of the University address, Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger announced the university received an anonymous donation of $37 million."

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