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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Calgary police are investigating what they are calling an “undetermined death” after a body was found on a downtown street early Tuesday morning.

Police said officers were called to the corner of 9 Street and 5 Avenue Southwest just before 5:30 a.m. after a person was found dead in a lane near the C-Train line.

While investigators haven’t released any info on the identity of the victim or the cause of death, investigators could be seen Tuesday morning entering a non-market residential housing development adjacent to the scene that had several CCTV cameras located on the exterior of the building.

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Strong wind gusts, heavy rainfall and thunderstorms were reported from parts of southern and western Manitoba overnight Monday, with a storm forecasted to continue in western communities Tuesday.

A low-pressure system brought the stormy weather, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), which said the southern community of Boissevain saw 152 millimetres of rain as of 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Five other communities in the province had more than 100 mm of rainfall, its weather summary said.

Winnipeg saw less precipitation, with 27 mm reported. However, strong wind gusts blew through the Waverly West neighbourhood of Whyte Ridge.

As of Tuesday morning, the City of Winnipeg said tree damage is the main issue residents are reporting, with 111 downed or damaged trees reported thus far.

Requests for city crews to manage 10 sewer backups, four missing manhole covers, one plugged back lane catch basin and 22 plugged front street catch basins were received as of 7 a.m. Tuesday, the city wrote in an emailed statement.

“It literally sounded like a hurricane at the front door,” Doug Bows, a Whyte Ridge resident, recounted to Global News as he described the storm.

“Then we heard this huge crash and looked outside, and a couple of neighbours’ fences had blown down.”

A storm with this intensity has not passed through the neighbourhood in Bows’ time living in Whyte Ridge, he said.

Environment Canada’s radar picked up on “very strong winds” that caused localized damage, Chris Stammers, a senior meteorologist with ECCC, told 680 CJOB.

“We’re kind of surprised we didn’t see severe wind gusts at the airport because it’s usually highly sensitive to that,” he told the station.

Gusts as fast as 106 km/h were reported in the Manitoban city of Morden.

Manitou, Clearwater, Snowflake, Lac Du Bonnet, Pilot Mound and Gardenton reported winds at 80 km/h or faster, according to the weather information agency.

This storm knocked out power for some Manitoba Hydro customers.

More than 14,000 people woke up without electricity on Tuesday morning, according to the utility provider.

The City of Winnipeg also said there was an uptick in calls to its fire paramedic service “mostly from power lines down and a few alarm calls.”

Currently, the Crown corporation says it is working on the outages, and it hopes to restore power to all storm-affected customers in the coming days.

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Ontario’s jail guards are asking for more help after a coroner’s report detailed a suicide crisis among correctional workers and made more than two dozen recommendations to the provincial government.

Thirty-four correctional workers have died by suicide over the past 15 years, according to a report by the Office of the Chief Coroner, titled In the Light of Day.

The report was led by Dr. Reuven Jhirad, Ontario’s deputy chief coroner, and Rose Jumarang, who along with a team reviewed death investigations, spoke to more than 90 people and made 28 recommendations meant to improve the health of workers at both provincial and federal institutions.

There have been more suicides among Ontario correctional workers in recent years, the report found. Half of the deaths took place between 2010 and 2019 and the other half between 2020 and 2024, doubling the rate, it said.

“We have an emergency happening among correctional workers and we need the resources in place to actually address this emergency,” said Chad Oldfield, chair of the corrections division of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.

Correctional workers currently have access to a maximum of $2,500 per year for psychological or social work treatment, the union said. That represents about 15-20 sessions a year with a mental health professional — far too few when someone is in crisis, Oldfield said.

The workers want support on par with what’s offered to Ontario Provincial Police, whose benefits cover unlimited outpatient and in-patient mental health treatment. The coroner’s recommendations include expanded mental health coverage and dealing with psychological hazards in the workplace.

“What we hear is the most frustrating thing is they look across the aisle and they say, ‘Hey, the OPP, who are under the same ministry and funded like us across the province, they have unlimited mental health benefits,'” Oldfield said.

“They can get the help they need immediately by picking up the phone and not have to pay for it.”

The cost of mental health supports is largely unaffordable for correctional workers, he said.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of the Solicitor General said it has taken several steps to improve mental health awareness, training and supports for correctional employees and their families.

The province is investing up to $45.2 million in the Mental Health Supports for Public Safety Personnel program, which provides access to supports for correctional employees, police officers, firefighters and others in the public safety sector, Saddam Khussain said in an email.

The ministry also implemented an employee wellness strategy in collaboration with the union in 2019, he said. The strategy includes a number of initiatives for correctional staff, including mandatory suicide prevention training, a corrections-specific peer support program and a therapy phone line available 24/7 that launched last month, he said. Mandatory trauma resiliency training is set to be added this year, he said.

The ministry is reviewing the report and its recommendations and will respond to the chief coroner’s office, Khussain said.

“Our thoughts are with the families, friends and colleagues of those who have tragically died by suicide,” he said.

“We recognize the unique challenges of working in the correctional system. Corrections employees see, experience, and are exposed to situations on a regular basis that can have serious and long-lasting impacts on their mental health and well-being.”

Oldfield and his colleagues at OPSEU noticed a cluster of three suicides in 2023 that gave them pause and drove them to seek to better understand what was happening on the front lines of correctional work, he said. They turned to a wide variety of government bodies for help and eventually found a welcoming ear in the coroner’s office.

Jhirad said he took on a deputy minister’s review, believing it would allow for the work to be done much faster than an inquest, which are often years in the making. It also allowed him to have a greater look at systemic issues, he said.

Research has shown the widespread devastation one suicide can have, and the report notes an average of 135 people are “impacted directly by a specific death by suicide.”

In an interview, the deputy chief coroner said his top recommendation is recognition: that correctional officers work in difficult environments, that they face many challenges and that they are a part of the public safety community.

Correctional workers are often overlooked when compared to police officers, paramedics and firefighters, Jhirad said. “Often not being seen to the same degree can sometimes cause the challenges,” he said.

The report also listed a series of more practical recommendations, including a range of training that includes work to build up resiliency.

Other recommendations include enhanced mental health support teams, access to peer support workers who understand the unique nature of the job, and multiple initiatives to better inform the government, correctional staff and the public.

Jhirad also said much needs to be done to confront the stigma surrounding mental health issues among correctional workers.

“There is no crying in corrections” is a saying Jhirad and his team heard several times during the review, he said.

Correctional workers had higher rates of mental health disorders such as major depressive disorder, PTSD, anxiety, substance-use disorders and suicidal ideation than the general population, he and his team found.

The review found a workplace culture marked by stigma, mistrust, emotional repression and “toxic masculinity,” all of which hinder those looking for help.

Correctional officers and paramedics have been found to have higher odds of suicidal behaviour compared to municipal and provincial police officers, the report found.

The review dealt only with the 34 deaths that were confirmed suicides, but Jhirad said he believes the real number is higher because they were limited to some degree by the data available. The vast majority of the confirmed suicides were men, with an average age of 50.

Overcrowding across Ontario’s jails has also affected correctional staff, the report found. Data obtained by The Canadian Press through freedom-of-information laws showed Ontario’s jails operated, on average, at 113 per cent capacity in 2023, a problem that worsened to 127 per cent capacity in 2025.

There were, on average, 11,058 inmates in Ontario’s jails last year, far greater than the 8,676 average capacity in the system.

“When you have more people in a confined space that can lead to more violence and that’s what we’re seeing,” said Adam Cygler, co-chair of the occupational stress injury subcommittee for the union.

Correctional workers are also dealing with a rise in moral injuries, he said.

“Our members are working in these conditions, seeing things that they’re not OK with,” Cygler said. “Because of the capacity issues, it’s difficult for our members to see four people crammed into these small cells.”

Ministry data collected by the union show violence is up significantly across the board over the past decade or so. There were 7,307 inmate-on-inmate assaults in 2025, up from 2,880 such assaults in 2015. And there were 1,249 inmate-on-staff assaults in 2025, compared to 545 similar incidents in 2017.

Premier Doug Ford, in response to The Canadian Press’s reporting on jail overcrowding, pledged to build more facilities and hire more correctional workers.

The province has since announced several hiring initiatives and has plans to increase jail capacity by nearly 6,000 beds by 2050, with about 2,500 to be online within a decade.

If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help, resources are available. In case of an emergency, please call 911 for immediate help.

For immediate mental health support, call 988. For a directory of support services in your area, visit the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention at suicideprevention.ca.

Learn more about preventing suicide with these warning signs and tips on how to help.

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A woman has been injured and police are searching for two suspects after gunshots were fired during a violent home invasion in Brampton, Ont.

Around 4 a.m. Tuesday, Peel Regional Police said they received multiple 911 calls about a disturbance at a home in the area of Goreway Drive and Castlemore Road.

“Investigators believe there may be at least two suspects who entered the residence, which triggered an altercation and a possible gun fired,” Const. Moulika Sharma told reporters.

She said a woman was injured in the foot and taken to hospital with minor injuries.

It is not clear, however, if she was shot, according to police, who believe multiple gunshots were fired inside the home. Several people were home during the incident.

Police are currently in the area canvassing for witnesses and video footage, asking anyone with information to get in touch.

“Investigators believe, as of right now, with what information we have so far, that this is a targeted incident and there is no threat to public safety,” Sharma said.

She added it wasn’t clear if anything was stolen.

Police said two suspects are wanted, although descriptions and further details have still not been finalized.

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment. “We keep that promise today.”

Three conservative justices would have allowed the restrictions to take effect.

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a 91-page dissent, more than three times as long as Roberts’ opinion. “In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”

The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect anywhere in the U.S.
During arguments in April, both conservative and liberal justices questioned the order’s legality in a momentous case that was magnified by Trump’s unprecedented attendance in the courtroom.

The case framed another test of Trump’s assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court with a conservative majority and a robust view of presidential power that has largely ruled in his favor. In the notable exceptions when the court has not, Trump has responded with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.

The justices ruled on Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions.
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on the first day of his second term, is part of his administration’s broad immigration crackdown.

Birthright citizenship was the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.

He also seemed to recognize the court was likely to rule against him on birthright citizenship, too, using his Truth Social platform to criticize “dumb judges and justices” and wealthy pregnant women from China and elsewhere who come to the U.S. to give birth so their newborns will have American citizenship.

Trump’s order would have upended widely held views that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on everyone born in the U.S., excluding only the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down Trump’s executive order as illegal. The decisions have invoked the high court’s 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

Roberts, joined by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the three liberal justices, said the amendment’s language, the historical context and the 1898 case make clear that children born to parents illegally or temporarily in the U.S. “are citizens at birth.”

But there was only a bare majority of five justices on the constitutional question.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the majority, but only because of a federal law that makes those children citizens.

Kavanaugh joined the dissenters in finding that Trump’s order does not violate the Constitution. His view would enable a future Congress to change the law to restrict birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration had argued that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would have been affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright citizenship restrictions also would have applied to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, Carney’s office said in a statement.

Bin Salman is who the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2018 concluded had ordered the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Carney will travel to Turkey next week to participate in the NATO summit in Ankara, following which he will visit Saudi Arabia between July 8 and 10 for a bilateral visit.

“The Prime Minister and the Crown Prince will deepen the Canada-Saudi Arabia partnership across energy, critical minerals, defence, infrastructure, and investment,” Carney’s office said.

The Washington Post reported that the CIA came to the conclusion that bin Salman had ordered Khashoggi’s killing after reviewing an array of evidence, including a taped phone call in which the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Khaled bin Salman — younger brother of the crown prince — told Khashoggi to go to the Saudi Consulate to pick up his wedding documents and assured him that he would be safe.

The Wall Street Journal later cited a U.S. official saying Khashoggi’s killing “would not and could not have happened” without bin Salman’s approval, and that the CIA’s conclusions on the Khashoggi killing were based on a thorough understanding of how Saudi Arabia operates.

In 2019, bin Salman told PBS that he bears responsibility for Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch.”

Carney’s visit follows high-profile ministerial visits to the country, first by International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu in January, then by Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon in February and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand in March.

This will be the first in-person meeting between Carney and bin Salman. Saudi Arabia is Canada’s second-largest trading partner in the Gulf region, with bilateral trade totalling $3.5 billion in 2025, Carney’s office said.

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Police in Atlantic Canada say they’ve recovered some of the nearly $650,000 worth of Stihl products stolen from a London, Ont., business earlier this year.

RCMP say they searched four retailers on June 23 across Moncton, N.B., and the P.E.I. communities of Summerside, Charlottetown and Montague.

Codiac Regional RCMP say police seized hundreds of Stihl products believed to have been stolen from the London business in February.

The Mounties say the estimated retail value of the recovered goods is about $20,000.

Police say they were contacted by a representative of Stihl on June 17 who believed the retailers were selling stolen products.

RCMP say they’re working with the London Police Service to examine how the Stihl products came into the possession of the retailers in New Brunswick and P.E.I.

Police did not immediately respond to a request for more details.

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