doug — off the record

• Iran Trap and Showtime

  From spider webs to gallery walls

• Will betting on wildfires lead to arson? – High Country News

  Fire survivors say using prediction markets to gamble on wildfire is “morally reprehensible.”

• Royal Canadian Legion still a 'staple' in Canadian communities after 100 years – Narcity

  Royal Canadian Legion celebrates 100th anniversary

• Toronto schools: 3 students graduate with 100% averages

  Three high school students are graduating from the Toronto District School Board with perfect marks, including one who completed his schooling online.

• Canada's online information ecosystem has fundamentally changed and so has Canadians’ definition of news — Media Ecosystem Observatory

  A new report from the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) draws on nearly 9 million social media posts and a national survey of 1,518 Canadians to document how journalism is losing ground online, and what is filling the void.

• This new Canadian coin looks like a fancy black penny and it's worth much more than one cent – Narcity

  It features leaves from the sugar maple tree.

• Microsoft rolls out 6 helpful new Windows 11 Insider features for early July, including one built to protect your PC from disaster | Windows Central

• Found: The Most Beautiful Collection of French Cars Ever

  The Mullin Collection, once thought divvied up and sold off, is here in LA.

• Windows 11's 500GB storage bug is fixed. How to check if you're good | PCWorld

  A Windows 11 bug that ate hundreds of GBs of storage is patched, but the fix may not shrink files that already grew. Here's what to do.

• New Channels Are Coming To YouTube TV

• 1969 Hit, Written on an Organ, Changed Hard Rock Forever

• Gen Xer psychiatrist says we don't actually miss the '80s, we miss these 6 things – Upworthy

  A psychiatrist and proud Gen Xer shares what everyone gets wrong about 1980s nostalgia, and why we miss the way the decade felt.

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