'This country is so great to visit. The people are amazing, so welcoming. The culture is amazing. It's like Europeans are getting a new view of America right now.' German Football YouTuber Fiago on tourists embracing American culture during the World Cup.

Almost every single person on Earth lives with rats. Only 5 million people out of 8 billion live rat free. They are the Albertans. Alberta is the only significantly human-inhabited place on Earth that is rat free. It achieved this in the 1950s as rats invaded from the East, by introducing a rodent surveillance state, obliging every citizen of the province to report them and terminating any sightings with extreme prejudice. They laid 63,000 kg of arsenic across a 600-kilometre-long, 29-kilometre-wide Rat Control Zone along the province's Eastern border. Back then, rats were so unfamiliar in Alberta that officials distributed preserved rat corpses to teach people what the enemy looked like. One pest-control officer held public meetings at which he ate warfarin-soaked oatmeal to show it was safe. And it worked! They held rats off and numbers remained so low that the surveillance and eradication system could keep numbers at essentially zero for years, at extremely low costs – Alberta spends about 11 cents per resident on rat control measures, much less than neighbouring provinces that are infested. Today, Albertans have grown so unfamiliar with rats that they frequently mistake squirrels, gophers, and other small animals for them: of 875 reported sightings in 2025, only 47 turned out to be actual rats. Pet rats are banned, vehicles entering Alberta are checked, and sightings are responded to with overwhelming force. Could the rest of the world manage it? Probably not. The secret was to stop them before they could establish themselves. For the rest of us, we probably need gene drives. Read the story of how Alberta won the war on rats at Works in Progress now. worksinprogress.co/issue/alb…

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The past is a foreign country. From the New York Times obituary of Martha Truman, President Truman's mother, who died at age 94 during his presidency

Will Iran eliminate the US in the round of 32?

I know this is going to get mocked. I get why. I'm tempted to join in. Devil's advocate: the year Sutter got fired in Calgary, the Flames were 12, had a 55 xGF% at 5v5, barely missed the playoffs thanks to terrible goaltending, and haven't looked anywhere near as good since.

Have had 1 toonie dog, 1 churro dog and a helmet of nachos so far. How many more toonie dogs can I put down in the last 3 innings? Line set at 3.5

Seth Jarvis with the clutch game-winning Fenwick, they'll be going crazy in Corsilina tonight!

Life's not too different. If you put in an honest effort and take care of those closest to you, you'll be rewarded. With all that in mind, I'm pumped to share: 🚨Introducing Darryl Sutter's "The Code of the West - Lessons From the Ranch and the Rink"🚨