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On this day in 2016, Morley Safer died. Born in 1931 in Toronto, he began his journalism career at various Ontario newspapers and then joined CBC. From 1970 to 2016, he was a reporter for 60 Minutes and won 12 Emmys. 📸 CBS

Average life expectancy of an Edmonton Oilers coach since Daryl Katz bought the team in 2008 (not counting two interims) is 134 games.

For decades, The Stubby Bottle ensured that Canadians knew their beer was produced within Canada by a Canadian brewery. But in the 1980s, in the hope of boosting sales, the stubby was abandoned by breweries for the long-neck bottle. This is the story. 📸 LeShoppeVintage 🧵 1/8

Canucks Sports & Entertainment is heartbroken by the sudden passing of John Garrett, a cherished member of our family whose loss is deeply felt across our entire organization and community. We extend our heartfelt condolences to John’s family, friends, and all who knew and loved him. He will be deeply missed. Forever a Canuck. READ | vancanucks.co/4sUzxEp

On this day in 1906, MLAs in Alberta's Legislative Assembly voted to make Edmonton the capital of the province. The choices were between Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer. Edmonton won with 16 votes, while Calgary had eight and Red Deer had zero.

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

On April 25, 1849, citizens of Montreal, angry over the Rebellion Losses Bill, burned down the Parliament Building This event had far-reaching consequences and played a role in Ottawa becoming Canada's capital. This is the story. 🎨 Joseph Legare 🧵 1/10

It’s mathematically possible that five teams in the Atlantic division will finish the season with 100 points. Meanwhile, in the Pacific division, no team will record 100 points this season.

Calgary could really use someone like that Kadri guy!!!

who's to blame

James Doohan wasn’t just Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, he was also a Canadian who served his country and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Then he turned to acting, was trained by Lorne Greene and even helped develop the Klingon language. This is his story. 🧵 1/12

i can’t keep watching mcdavid on the wrong side of a handshake line. this hurts, real bad.

Hellebuyck stole it, let’s be real.

Honestly will say it again, 3 on 3 OT in gold medal game is such a brutal way to end it.

We've learned too many men is simply not a penalty in IIHF

Wow...just wow 😱 📺: Canada vs. USA #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics action is LIVE on @NBCSports, @peacock, @cbcsports, @cbcgem, & @Sportsnet

Canadians, getting set for the third period.