Things I learned lately 5 May

• The monarch will be known officially in Canada as "Charles the Third, by the Grace of God King of Canada and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth." Defender of the faith has been removed from the title.
• 2023 marks the first time the Toronto Maple Leafs have advanced past the first round of the playoffs in 19 years.
• J. Michael Straczynski, who created the original Babylon 5 TV series, recently announced that a brand new, animated Babylon 5 movie is in the can and coming out soon.
• Storms have pounded the west coast since the new year, leading to more rainfall in San Diego during the first few months of 2023 than the entire year in 2022. From January through December 2022, San Diego measured a total of 5.9” of rain. Just from January through March 15 2023, San Diego has measured 9.11” of rain.
• In Brossard, Quebec, they’re trying out a pilot program to help enforce school speed zones. It’s called EARL, Education Awareness Reward Light. By default, the newly installed traffic light at the start of the school zone is red. But if it senses you are obeying the reduced speed limit, it turns green. If you speed, it turns red again. The light is solar powered and takes 15 minutes to install. The technology is made in Canada.
• The JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) seems to have found evidence of galaxies bigger than the Milky Way that existed half a billion years after the Big Bang. This was not thought possible with our current model of how the universe developed.
• A new restaurant in Montreal is going to pay its workers a starting salary of $80,000 per year. A co-owner said the idea is to treat the workers like professionals in the hospitality industry rather than wage workers, to reap the benefits of having a life that a professional would have. They also offer a stipend for continuing education, dining credits, vacation, and sick leave.