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Also: “I knew it was something special.” A Florida woman collecting trash in the wake of Hurricane Debby discovers a WWII-era message in a bottle.

Plus: Economist editor Shashank Joshi on Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region; an Indigenous man in northern Manitoba walks 100 kilometres after yet another train is cancelled; and a friend pays tribute to the late activist Eddie Canales, whose efforts helped save the lives of migrants along the U.S. border.