We’ve all seen TV shows featuring surgeons performing delicate procedures while music is playing in the operating room. Music keeps things calm, keeps the pace up, and helps everyone to stay awake during those long procedures. But what kind of music is best for this kind of work?

In June 2026, Spotify surveyed about 700 surgeons and healthcare pros in over 50 countries about their operating room playlist preferences. In addition to discovering that 90% of surgeons like music whilst they operate and 89% of them preferred playlists over listening to albums, they came up with a ranking of genre favourites. Rock finished in first place, followed closely by pop. Then came classical, jazz and hip hop. If you’re an anesthesiologist, though, there’s a 59% chance you prefer pop.

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It’s time again to investigate where various bands got their name.

• Arkells: Their name comes from Arkell Street, which is in the west end of Hamilton Street near McMaster University.
• Portugal. The Man: That comes from a book that singer John Gourley was planning to write his father and the many adventures he had.
  The Killers took their name from a fictional band in an old New Order video.
• The phrase “cold war kids” came to bass player Matt Maust when he toured Eastern Europe after the fall of communism and saw all these kids hanging out at a park in Budapest.
• And if you really want to get super technical about it, the name of alt-J is the Greek letter “delta,” which is looks like a triangle and is used as a mathematical symbol for change. To type it on a screen using a Mac, you use the keystroke alt-j. Try it sometime.

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I’m trying to imagine this meeting. Sometime in the late 70s, Joey Ramone ran into Bruce Springsteen in Ashbury Park, New Jersey. Joey knew that his friend Patti Smith had had a big hit with “Because the Night,” a song given to her by Springsteen.

“Why don’t you write me a song?” Joey said? Springsteen said, “Okay. Gimme a minute.”

He went away and wrote “Hungry Heart” and was all prepared to give it to the Ramones when his manager said, “Uh, Bruce? You may want to hang onto that sound. It’s a little too good to give away.”

He recorded it himself, and it became a hit as the lead single off his 1980 album, The River. You gotta wonder what might have happened if the Ramones had got to it first.

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A Vancouver resident says she hit a roadblock after ordering a new smartphone from Rogers that never arrived. “Rogers was a beast,” said Renee Ron.

Back in May, the long-time customer says she accepted Rogers’ offer to upgrade her smartphone. Ron says the phone was scheduled to arrive via courier in a few days at her home. Prior to the delivery, Ron says she provided strict instructions to deliver the package to her building’s concierge desk.

On the day Ron’s phone was scheduled for delivery, she received an email from FedEx with tracking information. “I tracked it. Finally, it said it has arrived,” recalled Ron.

However, when Ron arrived at the concierge desk, there was no sign of her phone. The concierge confirmed they never received a parcel from FedEx.

Ron filed a police report. “I filed a police report because I had been on the phone with Rogers for hours and hours. I was getting nowhere. They were insisting the phone was delivered and that this was not a fraud case,” she said.

The situation became even more concerning when she contacted FedEx and says the courier company stated she had signed for the phone. “I asked FedEx, could you please tell me exactly where this package was delivered and my signature? And they said I have no information,” Ron told Consumer Matters.

Ron says Vancouver police helped her obtain the signature, confirming it was not hers.

Still, Ron says FedEx considered her case closed. Rogers, she says, wasn’t much help either and sent her a bill with extra charges for a phone she never received. As a Rogers customer for almost 40 years, Ron says she expected better. “I want to ask Rogers, where is your loyalty to your customers?” said Ron.

FedEx did not respond to requests for comment from Consumer Matters, but Rogers provided the following statement:

“We recognize this has been a frustrating experience for our customer. Our records show that the device has not been activated or used and we’ve worked with the customer to resolve the issue. We’re also working with the delivery company to ensure delivery mistakes like this do not happen.”

The Telecom giant adding from the GPS location on the delivery confirmation, it was likely a mis-delivery to a nearby building. Rogers issued Ron a new phone and a two-month account credit. “ I don’t know why it has to be this way, but if it wasn’t for you and Consumer Matters, this wouldn’t be resolved at all,” said Ron.

According to Canada’s Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) recent mid-year report – Rogers had the highest number of complaints during the reporting period. “Rogers was at the top of the list for complaints in our last mid-year report. They are up 95  per cent since our last mid-year report. They account for about 34 per cent of all complaints that we get,” said Josée Bidal Thibault, Commissioner and CEO of the CCTS.

Consumers struggling to resolve disputes with a service provider can reach out to the CCTS for free.

“We’re able to help with things like billing disputes, contractual disputes, service delivery disputes,” Bidal Thibault added.

The watchdog says the majority of complaints it receives get resolved and often within 20 days. If that doesn’t happen, the CCTS has the authority to investigate and hold service providers accountable.

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Some downtown Kelowna, B.C., business owners say security measures once considered optional have become necessary just to stay open, even as the city rolls out new initiatives aimed at reducing crime.

The city recently announced a new RCMP Downtown Community Liaison Officer, building on a package of safety measures that includes a business CCTV registry, security rebate program and additional patrols. Community Safety Director Darren Caul said over 50 CCTV cameras have been registered and 120 buisnesses have gone through a free security audit.

“Unfortunately, crime occurs every day and every night, and it’s our job to be constantly monitoring the data and looking for new opportunities to get ahead of that and curb repeat offenders,” said Caul.

He acknowledged the frustration many business owners are experiencing.

“We absolutely hear them and we see the challenges that they face and we share in that frustration that they are feeling,” he said.

For Todd Daniels, owner of Gallery Street Clothing, keeping locked up is now a part of business.

“It’s a constant battle, man. Constant battle,” Daniels said.

Daniels installed heavy-duty security shutters that cost “upwards of $7,000,” money he paid out of his own pocket because the program that now supports businesses with these kinds of expenses was not available at the time.

Each night, staff move merchandise away from the storefront so if a window is broken, thieves can’t reach anything inside.

Daniels believes those security measures are now critical.

“Without them, we wouldn’t be in business. Some landlords are saying they don’t like them or whatever, but until we fix the problem, we don’t have a choice.”

He also says the downtown retail landscape has changed dramatically.

“You couldn’t find a place here two years ago. It was impossible to get retail. It was impossible to get a spot. Now, every week there are spots,” he says as he points to a ‘for lease’ sign.

The city says businesses can apply for security funding and request free crime prevention assessments through its Community Safety team as it continues expanding its downtown safety initiatives.

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A Montreal man appearing online as a women’s fitness instructor is facing multiple charges related to sex trafficking following a joint investigation by police in Ontario and Quebec.

In May, York Regional police’s counter exploitation unit was conducting proactive enforcement targeting the advertising of sexual services, according to a news release.

Through the investigation, officers identified and found a victim at a hotel in the area of Highway 7 and Leslie Street in the City of Markham.

The victim reported to police that they had been lured from B.C. to Ontario and trafficked and exploited in the sex trade.

Officers identified additional victims, police said, linking the suspect to an ongoing human trafficking investigation in Montreal.

Phillippe Mokoko, 38, now faces 14 charges, including trafficking in persons, advertising sexual services, material benefit from sexual services, material benefit from trafficking in persons, withholding or destroying documents, exercising control and breach of probation.

Mokoko was on probation at the time of his arrest, police said.

Investigators allege Mokoko presented himself online as a motivational speaker and fitness instructor primarily working with women under the usernames “Coach Dreamz” and “Dreamz.bigg” and is believed to have frequented gyms across Canada.

Police said there are likely more victims across Canada, particularly in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec. Anyone with information is asked to come forward.

The investigation is ongoing and additional charges are expected, according to police.

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Efforts are now underway to recover a vessel and the six people presumed drowned off the coast of Richmond.

Richmond RCMP said four men and two women remain unaccounted for and are presumed drowned after a charter boat sank off the coast of Richmond, in the Roberts Bank area, on Sunday.

Four people were rescued following the capsizing.

Nearby vessels raced to the commercial charter boat, but rescuers say that by the time they arrived, only four people were found alive.

Richmond RCMP said the recovery of the vessel is complex because the water where the vessel sank is deep.

“So where the boat sank, they’re thinking the water there is approximately 150 to 180 meters deep, which is really deep,” Cpl. Frank Bryson with Richmond RCMP said.

“So they’re going to need some specialized equipment — underwater drones and things like that — to go down. So they’re looking at a time when the weather is cooperating and they can get down and utilize some of those tools.”

Bryson added that for those who are presumed drowned, next of kin notifications still need to be completed.

He did not provide any information on whether the people on the boat were locals or tourists.

The Transportation Safety Board confirmed on Tuesday that it is investigating what happened.

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Seven members of Burnaby’s Urban Search and Rescue team are preparing to return home from Venezuela, where they have been working to find and rescue people affected by back-to-back earthquakes.

“The experience has been a difficult one for our team,” president Ryan Berry said.

The team of volunteers, including two firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement officials and two dogs, has spent days scouring the debris for survivors.

The death toll is now more than 1,700 people after two powerful earthquakes struck the country on Wednesday.

More than 5,000 are injured and more than 15,000 have been displaced.

“We’ve been working all day and into the evening trying to find people trapped in the rubble,” Berry said.

Six days since the earthquakes struck, the mission is transitioning from rescue to recovery.

“Up until last night, they were still pulling people from the wreck,” Berry said. “So there’s a three-year-old pulled out of a site just north of here.”

North Vancouver FC director Wisam Souki waited anxiously after the earthquakes struck as they learned his mother-in-law was trapped in her apartment.

Fortunately, neighbours rescued her, he said, but her building in Caracas is now uninhabitable.

“This has been as personal as it gets,” he told Global News.

“Everyone has been affected somehow, directly or indirectly.”

Souki is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, July 4, for victims of the Venezuela earthquakes.

The soccer clinic runs from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Fen Burdett Stadium in North Vancouver. It is open to players of all levels born between 2012 and 2021. Entry is by donation and anyone wanting more information can contact 1-778-866-7261.

“Regardless of what we do, we won’t be able to bring the lives that were lost back, but we have the duty to also carry on and carry their legacy the best we can by leading by example and by being great citizens and by supporting each other,” Souki added.

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Crews in Kananaskis are starting to assess and clean up the damage to roads and trails caused by heavy rainfall that prompted a local state of emergency for the provincial park.

According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, more than 100 mm of rain fell from Friday night through Monday morning, with the rain continuing throughout the day Monday.

On Tuesday, the majority of 1,500 visitors stranded in the park because of washed out roads were able to get out with most of Highway 40 reopening.

“We still have Evan-Thomas Bridge that’s washed out,” said Todd Loewen, minister of forestry and parks. “That’ll take a couple of days to get that fixed up, but at least people can move in form the north and from the south to that point.”

Minister Loewen said between 150 and 200 people utilized the temporary shelters set up at Peter Lougheed Centre and Williams Watson Lodge Monday night, adding roughly 50 people are still stuck near the Smith Dorrien Trail.

“We’re cleaning out some mudslides and washouts there,” said Loewen. “That should be done today but it’s hard to say. It’s an ever-changing story there as far as the big slides and how long it’s going to take to fix them.”

Loewen says crews have been working to ensure public safety in the park, with transportation engineers evaluating bridges before allowing travel across. He says water levels are already starting to fall, allowing for a clearer picture of the damage.

“As the days go on there’ll be a little more cleanup here and there to make sure where the mudslides have happened that maybe we clean that back a little bit farther to make sure it doesn’t repeat itself in the next couple of days,” said Minister Loewen.

With Highway 40 open from Highway 1 to Kananaskis Village, the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge is getting ready to welcome visitors for Canada Day celebrations. General manager Liz Hovey-Smith says they’ve been working closely with Alberta Parks to make sure staff, residents and supplies can move safely through the park.

“I think it’s important that people are following the provincial guidelines, but that being said the roads are open coming in,” says Hovey-Smith.

“You need to make the correct decisions for you, but we will be taking care of the guests we have here.”

Hovey-Smith says there are trails open off the back of the property but encourages guests to check with Alberta Trails for any closures in the area before heading out for a hike.

There are several trail and campground closures in place in Kananaskis because of high stream flow. Alberta Parks says those locations won’t re-open until conditions improve.

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