OTR Backup 10/08/2025

• Switched off

• Here are the facts on Trump's orders to send troops to Portland and Chicago

• WiFi signals can measure heart rate without a wearable device | Health | thesuburban.com

  New research shows how the signal from a household WiFi device can be used to monitor heart rate with state-of-the-art accuracy.

• Doug Ford’s cabinet ministers are getting a lot of speeding tickets

• Canada's last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats, globalization

  Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan […]

• Psychologists Warn: These 9 Phrases Can Make You Sound Arrogant

• The 10 best double albums in rock music history | Louder

• The simple way I fix Windows device problems, no panic needed | PCWorld

  If you encounter device problems in Windows, try this simple command.

• Airport warns about catfishing as people arrive to meet loved ones who don’t exist | Globalnews.ca

  The chief executive of Gander International Airport says staff have noticed an increase in people who appear to have been victims of a manipulative scheme known as catfishing.

• 'You're from Canada, eh?': Meeting with 'off-duty ICE officer' at a pet store leads to Toronto man's self-deportation

• Dejected Yankees broadcasters left in stunned silence by Vladdy Jr.'s huge grand slam

• Premier Doug Ford said Smirnoff may be removed from LCBO after Crown Royal plant closure

  Premier Doug Ford says more booze may be stripped from LCBO shelves if a plan to shut down a Crown Royal bottling facility in southwestern Ontario goes forward.

• This new Linux desktop environment gives us what Microsoft never did with Windows

  Linux has a new desktop environment in the works, and COSMIC is already looking very promising in its first beta stage.

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