{"id":833801,"date":"2026-07-29T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833801\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:18:15","slug":"meet-albertas-own-friendly-neighbourhood-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833801\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alberta’s own friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As superhero origin stories go, Josh Carter has a pretty good one. It started during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an idea to bring some joy to the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wanted to do something nice for the community,\u201d the 23-year-old from Beaumont, Alta., told CBC. \u201cI put on the suit, walked around, did flips and people loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon, the athletic Carter was a Spidey staple on the streets of the Edmonton-area, showing off in public parks, taking bookings to entertain at birthday parties and earning community service awards.<\/p>\n

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A \u2018Brand New Day\u2019 for Beaumont’s Spider-Man<\/p>\n

The premiere date of Marvel\u2019s newest Spider-Man film inches closer and closer. The superhero has garnered a dedicated fan base \u2014 but none more so than the Spider-Man of Beaumont, Alta. The CBC’s Tristan Mottershead reports.<\/p>\n

Carter describes the community’s support as \u201cmindblowing.\u201d <\/p>\n

His mom,\u00a0Patricia Carter, said she is proud of her son\u2019s commitment to spreading happiness in his community, noting that he was diagnosed with global developmental delays and has ADHD.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know. it’s incredible,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have a special needs child and you worry, but this community has rallied around him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AnCarter’s tattoo describes the guiding principle that he likes to live by. (Tristan Mottershead\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The community’s support encouraged Carter to take his skills to the next level, so he enrolled in taekwondo classes.<\/p>\n

The headmaster at Prime Taekwondo School<\/a> in Edmonton, Kang Song, remembers meeting Carter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was curious. What kind of guy is that, wearing the costume,\u201d said Kang.<\/p>\n

\"ACarter gets set to break a board at the Prime Taekwondo School in Edmonton. (Tristan Mottershead\/CBC)<\/p>\n

But over the past five years, Carter worked hard to earn his black belt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sometimes struggles but he\u2019s really good,\u201d Kang said, adding that Carter is fearless when it comes to flips and popular with other kids at the school.<\/p>\n

Soon, Carter will break out his best blue-and-red suit and join his family at the premiere of the fourth instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, which opens in theatres this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The movie follows a forgotten Peter Parker, played by Tom Holland, fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn\u2019t remember him. The movie explores themes of identity, duty and loneliness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite his own identity being often hidden under a mask, Carter always sets the record straight when people want to know who he is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey think I\u2019m Tom Holland,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not Tom, but I\u2019m going to keep doing it, I\u2019m going to keep entertaining people, and I\u2019m going to really enjoy it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-833801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}