All kinds of music require volume. It has to be listened to loud. But how loud and for how long? Here’s a quick guide.

• If you listen to music for long periods of time, 85 dB is about the maximum. You can listen for up to eight hours with no damage to your hearing.
• But turn things up to 88 dB, and the tolerance drops to around four hours.
• At 91 dB, two hours, max. If you’re at 94 dB, you’d better stop after an hour. Beyond that, things can get dangerous.
• If sound pressure levels are at 100 dB, you may suffer hearing damage in as little as 15 minutes.
• And if things are at 110 dB or beyond, damage starts within a few minutes. If you’re near the speakers, problems start within seconds.

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If you have a stereo set-up at home, you’ll know that there’s a special input for your turntable labelled “phono.”  You can’t just plug it into, say, an auxiliary input. If you can use an aux input for everything else, why not your turntable?

Because in order to play back vinyl correctly, it has to go through something called a “phono stage.” Vinyl has limitations when it comes to storing very low frequencies and very high ones. To counteract that, records are pressed with the bass turned down and the treble turned up per something called the RIAA equalization curve. Upon playback, the phono stage reverses that curve, boosting the bass by a specific amount and reducing the treble, thereby achieving the tonal balance of the original recording.

The RIAA curve may help explain why it feels better to listen to vinyl than a digital recording.

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HAMILTON – Jake Dolegala will start at quarterback on Sunday when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats visit the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Hamilton coach Scott Milanovich made the announcement Wednesday following the club’s practice. Dolegala will make his first start for the Ticats and just the 12th of his CFL career.

He will replace veteran Bo Levi Mitchell, who suffered an ankle injury early in the third quarter of Hamilton’s 14-13 home loss to Winnipeg. Mitchell was hurt while being sacked by Blue Bombers defensive lineman Jake Ceresna.

Mitchell underwent successful ankle surgery Monday, and the Ticats (2-2) are expecting a full recovery. However, the 36-year-old native of Katy, Texas, is out indefinitely.

Mitchell completed 18-of-29 passes for 228 yards and a TD and had staked Hamilton to a 13-4 lead before his injury. Dolegala and Canadian Tre Ford saw action following Mitchell’s departure, but both struggled.

Ford completed three-of-seven passes for 12 yards and an interception while both of Dolegala’s attempts were incomplete.

The six-foot-seven, 242-pound Dolegala is in his second season with Hamilton and has been used primarily in short-yardage situations. He had two carries Sunday for five yards and this year has 14 rushing attempts for 22 yards and three touchdowns.

This will mark Dolegala’s first career start versus Saskatchewan (3-1), the team he began his CFL career with in 2022-23.

Dolegala has appeared in 37 career regular-season games with the Riders, B.C. Lions (2024) and Hamilton (2025-present). He has completed 247-of-396 passes (62.4 per cent) for 2,953 yards with 12 TDs and 11 interceptions.

Dolegala has also rushed 65 times for 184 yards (2.8-yard average) and 14 touchdowns.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2026.

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During the last decade, small-scale landlords have far outpaced institutional investors in Canada’s rental market, data from Statistics Canada shows.

In the United States, the role of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) has come under scrutiny as large companies buy up large shares of the housing market, but the picture looks very different in Canada, Statistics Canada said.

“Small-scale investors (individuals) owned the largest share of investment properties in terms of assessed value across all the provinces studied, except Nova Scotia,” the report said.

The report defines “small-scale investor” as an individual who owns up to five properties, while an institutional investor is defined as the top 0.1 per cent of investors in terms of the assessment value of investment properties owned in the province.

The second category consists mainly of businesses, including REITs, pension funds, private funds and large family-owned businesses.

Small-scale investors owned around half of all rental properties in British Columbia (49.4 per cent), Ontario (52.6 per cent) and Prince Edward Island (57.1 per cent) by 2021.

In contrast, institutional investors owned 20.3 per cent, 23.6 per cent and 16.6 per cent, respectively, in these three provinces.

The high number of condominium apartments in B.C. and Ontario has made them more accessible to small-scale investors, the report added.

According to a 2023 TD Bank report, large investors accounted for around 30 per cent of all houses bought in Canada last year.

The rise of small-scale investors, sometimes referred to as “mom-and-pop investors,” coincided with property values doubling (94 per cent rise) between 2011 and 2021 and rents going up 42 per cent.

“If it was one or two or 10 or 20 bad actors, that would be relatively easy . The truth, unfortunately, is that we’ve got a system that continues to support housing as an investment rather than as an essential need, an essential right. And that’s a harder truth to handle,” said Carolyn Whitzman, a senior housing researcher and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities.

The term “mom-and-pop” investors “sentimentalizes” housing investment, Whitzman said.

“We tend to sentimentalize small landlords. There are good small landlords, absolutely. But there’s a lot of really bad, small-scale landlords, and they appear to be able to act with near impunity,” she said.

However, having a rental market where the supply isn’t concentrated in a few hands may be a good thing, said Royal Bank of Canada economist Rachel Battaglia.

“Low market concentration is a positive; you want some healthy market competition when it comes to market share. So no one group or individual really has all the power to control what’s going on in the market,” she said.

There are a few caveats to remember with Wednesday’s Statistics Canada study, Battaglia said.

First, the study looks at the value of the rental market that is held by a certain number of landlords, not the number of housing units.

“This could suggest that landlords owning an expensive penthouse apartment could own a similar share of the overall rental market value as many landlords that own several smaller-scale apartments,” she said.

The other caveat is that the data is from 2022, when Canada’s most recent real estate boom was at its peak, and the housing market looks very different today.

“I suspect many investors, including mom and pop investors, were potentially jumping into the market, trying their hand at real estate investment or expanding their portfolios as well,” she said.

High investor demand in 2021 and 2022 also meant a higher supply of rental development projects, Battaglia said.

“That influx of supply is part of the reason why asking rents currently and recently have been falling in the city,” she added.

On Wednesday, average asking rents across Canada in June fell 4.3 per cent to $2,033 in June compared with the same period in 2025, according to Rentals.ca and Urbanation. This marked the 21st consecutive month of falling rents.

“Canada’s rental market continued to show signs of improvement in June, with rents rising for a third straight month and the pace of annual declines easing from earlier in the year,” said Shaun Hildebrand, president of Urbanation.

Part of the solution to make rental housing more affordable for Canadians is to increase housing supply, Battaglia said.

“To tackle the housing supply issue in Canada, it’s all hands on deck,” she said.

To rapidly build up supply, governments must mobilize capital to kickstart the building of rental housing, Whitzman said

“You need mission-oriented organizations, either governments or non-profit organizations that receive some kind of low-cost financing or grants from the governments to be providing that housing while the housing crisis sorts itself out,” she said.

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TORONTO – The Toronto Raptors have signed forward Kyle Anderson, the NBA club announced Wednesday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The six-foot-eight, 230-pound veteran from Fairview, N.J., averaged 6.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.9 assists, one steal and 19.8 minutes in 43 games with Utah, Memphis and Minnesota last season.

He shot 53 per cent from the field and scored in double figures in seven games, including a season-high 22 points off the bench in Utah’s Jan. 1 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. Anderson also appeared in eight playoff games with the Timberwolves.

Anderson was picked 30th overall by San Antonio in the 2014 NBA draft.

He holds career averages of 6.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists, one steal and 21.4 minutes in 757 games (313 starts) across 12 seasons with San Antonio, Memphis, Minnesota, Golden State, Miami and Utah.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2026.

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EDMONTON – The Edmonton Elks host the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday night in a matchup of two teams coming off losses and looking for an improved running attack.

The 3-1 Elks are looking to rebound from a 36-24 to the B.C. Lions on Saturday, when their running attack was almost non-existent. Justin Rankin, the leading rusher in the CFL with 406 yards and a 7.7 average, was held to just 19 yards on seven carries.

The 0-4 Redblacks have struggled to establish a running game through their first four games and Greg Bell managed just 45 yards on nine carries in their 27-22 loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week.

“For as great a player as he is, we know we’re not going to get that ultra production every time,” Elks quarterback Cody Farjardo said this week of Rankin. “Teams are going to key on him so we have to pick him up by doing it in the pass game. Finding ways to get him touches any way we can is what’s going to help this offence.”

Rankin has a goal of 1,000 yards both rushing and receiving this season and acknowledges teams are going to make that difficult with their game planning.

“Obviously they’re going to stack the box,” he said. “But we have a lot more playmakers than just me. We just have to find a better balance.”

Redblacks head coach Ryan Dinwiddie says his team has to find a way to limit Rankin’s running, just as the Lions did so successfully.

While the Redblacks have studied films from the Edmonton-B.C. game, the Elks have planned ways to counter what Ottawa may learn.

“I’m not going to tell you but we do (make adjustments)” said Elks head coach Mark Kilam. “There are 11 other guys on the field, we have other guys who have to step up and make plays and that’s what we will do.”

Dinwiddie also acknowledged his team has to get its run game going and not put so much pressure on quarterback Jake Maier to bail out the offence.

Ottawa has a CFL-worst 261 rushing yards compared to Edmonton’s 468, second only to Calgary Stampeders 476 yards. Bell, a 1,000-yard rusher in 2025, has 114 yards and is averaging 3.9-yard per carry this season.

While the Lions stopping Edmonton’s running game was a key to their win, the Elks were pointing at themselves, for their mistakes (four turnovers) and lack of effective tackling.

“I would say our tackling” linebacker Joel Dublanko replied when asked what the most disappointing aspect of the loss was. “We pride ourselves on, when we go in to make a tackle, it’s down right there.

“There were a lot of leaky yards there. We had some misses up front, too, that led to some explosives. That was really disappointing.”

He said the Elks pride themselves on their work ethic that’s one of the main reasons the team is off t its best start in six years.

“We have to make sure that same sense of urgency we had when we were 0-0 and we hadn’t won a game in the month of June for however long, that level of sense of urgency,” Dublanko said. “We got back to that this week and we’re feeling good about the team preparation and the attention to detail we are having.”

Kilam said after the team’s walkthrough Wednesday that the players knew what went wrong last week and came into practice “ready to make amends this week.

“Great focus in our walk-thru, our meetings, in practice. It’s important that you understand you have to prepare the right way every week, you have to show up every week and you have to play to your standard every week.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2026.

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Thieves stole millions of dollars worth of jewerly from the museum of French glassmaker Lalique in an early-morning heist on Sunday, months after the brazen US$100-million daylight heist at the Louvre.

The museum was broken into in Wingen-sur-Morder in northeastern France around 5:30 a.m. local time and the thieves headed straight for the jewelry room, according to Agence France-Presse.

“Around twenty pieces of jewelery were stolen. The loss is currently being assessed but could amount to several million euros, likely close to four million,” a source told the outlet.

According to the Times of London, the masked thieves broke into six display cases while only being in the museum for 11 minutes.

The museum, dedicated to glassmaker René Lalique, said that it would be closed for several days because of the burglary, according to a statement on its website.

Christian Dorschner, the mayor of Wingen-sur-Moder, told local newspaper Les Dernieres nouvelles d’Alsace that the thieves went straight to the jewelry room and only visited that room.

“All the alarms went off, just as they should. And then with the security company, apparently, there was a major failure on their part: they didn’t intervene right away, they didn’t inform the gendarmes,” Christian Dorschner said.

The museum took to Facebook to share a number of items that were stolen during the heist, including a woman-dragonfly with open wings pendant, created by René Lalique around 1898–1900.

“Following the terrible burglary the museum suffered, it is impossible to carry on as if nothing had happened. The investigation is ongoing,” the museum added.

The museum said that all of the missing items have been identified by the museum team and their descriptions have been passed on to the relevant authorities to assist with the search.

The robbery is the latest museum heist in France.

In October, municipal officials discovered that part of a display at the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot (Denis Diderot House of Enlightenment), located in Langres, France, had disappeared.

Thieves broke into the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot after breaking down the main gate of the Hôtel du Breuil-de-Saint-Germain, which houses the museum, the Washington Post reports.

The museum did not have any visitors present when its security noticed that a sliding door had been forced open and a display case containing gold and silver coins had been broken into, Pierrick White, a senior local official, told BFMTV.

The coins stolen — approximately 2,000 of them — were worth around €90,000 (C$147,000), the BBC reports.

The news of this other robbery came after the Louvre’s former director acknowledged a “terrible failure” at the Paris tourist attraction following the daylight crown jewel heist earlier in October.

Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal crown jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) from the Louvre, in a weekend operation that stunned visitors, exposed glaring vulnerabilities and left one of France’s most symbolically charged collections in criminal hands.

Several suspects were later arrested, but the stolen pieces remain missing.

—with files from The Associated Press

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Halifax Regional Police are investigating after human remains were found Wednesday morning, saying there is “currently no evidence of foul play.”

Police said they responded just before 8 a.m. to the area of Long Lake near Old Sambro Road.

The remains have not been identified yet, police added.

“The investigation is in the early stages and investigators are working with the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner’s office who will determine the manner and cause of death,” police said in a release.

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A woman who was pulled from the water after a vessel sank off the coast of Richmond on June 28 later succumbed to her injuries, Richmond RCMP said on Wednesday.

Six people remain missing and are presumed drowned after the KingFisher, operated by Top Vancouver Fishing Charter Inc., went down suddenly near Roberts Bank.

RCMP also released more details about the 10 people on board the vessel, which included eight guests, the vessel operator and a person assisting the operator.
Four people were rescued from the water following the sinking and RCMP said three survivors have since been released from hospital:

• 33-year-old woman from Toronto, Ontario;
• 33-year-old man from Redmond, Washington; and
• 26-year-old man from Richmond, British Columbia.

The person who died in the hospital was a 28-year-old woman, a Chinese citizen residing in Seattle, Wash.

Six people remain missing:

• 33-year-old man from Toronto, Ontario;
• 31-year-old woman from Redmond, Washington;
• 31-year-old man a Chinese citizen residing in Seattle, Washington;
• 29-year-old woman from West Vancouver, British Columbia;
• 32-year-old man from West Vancouver, British Columbia; and
• 22-year-old man from Richmond, British Columbia, who was the vessel operator.

RCMP said the names of the people involved will not be released due to the families’ requests.

“Investigators continue to work diligently alongside our partner agencies to determine exactly what occurred and to identify all relevant factors that contributed to this tragedy,” Cpl. Frank Bryson, media relations officer for the Richmond RCMP, said.

“Our thoughts remain with the families and loved ones of those affected by this incident.”

RCMP also said that on July 6, its Underwater Recovery Team and West Coast Marine Services personnel located the sunken vessel approximately 153 metres below the surface using a remotely operated vehicle.

Searches of the surrounding seabed did not locate any occupants outside the vessel, RCMP said, and the dark and underwater conditions limited efforts to examine the interior.

Anyone with information regarding this incident, including individuals who may have travelled on previous voyages involving the vessel Big Coast or Top Vancouver Fishing Charter Inc., who have not yet spoken with investigators, is asked to contact the Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212 and quote file 2026-20338.

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The Assiniboine River is expected to continue rising in Brandon, Man., this week and the city is using the next few days to reinforce its protective measures.

The water is “expected to peak in Brandon on or about July 13,” the province wrote in a flood bulletin Wednesday.

At their highest, levels are expected to rise by seven to eight feet — more than two metres, according to Brandon Mayor Jeff Fawcett. The water will remain at that level for a few days before receding, he said at a news conference Wednesday.

Mitigation efforts, including traditional sandbags, so-called “super sandbags,” and tube-style “Tiger Dam” barriers, are being deployed ahead of the crest, Fawcett said.

“There are a few (homes) that are sort of on outliers in the east end (of the city) that, themselves, have some dike system in place now. So, it’s not as much sandbagging as it was historically,” Fawcett said.

“The dike is protecting almost everyone,” he continued, noting that one home may need to be evacuated when the river peaks.

No evacuation order has been issued by the city yet, Fawcett said.

If one is called, the mayor said 4,000 to 5,000 residents may need to temporarily depart from Brandon, but he cautioned that was a rough estimate, saying it “may not even be that many.”

Residents are encouraged to prepare an emergency go bag, he said. Inside, the mayor recommended including important documents, medication, clothing and other essentials.

“Everyone in the (affected) area kind of knows it’s around the river,” Fawcett told reporters.

For the next several days, the province expects “no significant precipitation,” it said in its flood bulletin.

“Forecast conditions are expected to support continued declines on most waterways and allow recovery efforts to progress in affected areas,” the provincial update reads.

If that forecast is accurate, Brandon’s mayor said he’s confident the city’s infrastructure is ready.

“We’re controlling everything we can control. And it’s the things that we can’t that we’re going to be ready to adapt to,” Fawcett said.

Brandon declared a 30-day flood-related state of local emergency over the weekend. On Saturday, Fawcett told Global News that the city’s declaration allowed early access to additional provincial resources.

Levels in most Manitoban waterways were said to be returning to normal in the province’s bulletin.

It said Manitoba’s active flood response plan remains in effect as communities, including Brandon, prepare for and face the impacts of the worst of the flooding.

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