Canada

Terry Bonner, the Vancouver Giants’ 85-year-old scout, stepped onto the Western Hockey League’s Prospects Draft stream and did what older men sometimes do. He wandered a little, praised Vancouver’s selection of Eli Vickers with the third overall pick, then thanked Cami Kepke, the WHL’s community engagement and content manager, and told her something that’s become something of a lost art.

Ants can be a nuisance. Just ask officials at a hospital in Canada who are dealing with an “appearance of ants within the operating room” that has forced them to indefinitely suspend some surgeries there.

The ants appeared recently at Carman Memorial Hospital in Carman Manitoba, according to a statement from Southern Health-Santé Sud, the provincial authority that oversees the hospital.

Its head resembled a dog’s, its downturned nose a camel’s, and at the end of its reptilian body was the tail of horse. Witnesses say it was covered in a thin white film. When the remains of a strange creature were pulled from the stomach of a sperm whale, most of those present agreed: it was a sea monster – or at least something unknown living in the depths off Canada’s west coast.

Crews at the whaling station in the archipelago of Haida Gwaii assembled a platform of wooden boxes and laid out the 3-metre (10ft) carcass, using a white sheet to display the curiosity that had baffled veteran whalers.