If a newspaper makes a mistake or leaves something out in a story, they print a correction as soon as they can. If something erroneous is posted on a website, etiquette requires an update or correction to be added to the original post.

In science, if new data comes to light and a previously announced theory or conclusion has to change, that’s fantastic. That’s what science is. It’s a constant pursuit of the truth, and if the facts don’t support the theory, then the theory must be changed.

And when you’re making a list involving complicated data—especially on a project which few (if any) people have attempted before—it’s incumbent upon the researcher to go back and fix any errors and omissions.

This is known as an “erratum,” an error in printing or writing. Protocol requires that a list of corrected errors be appended to a book, a journal, or any published material. Again, we must go where the facts lead us.

This is such an occasion. This is a bonus episode on the 50 biggest all-time alt-rock one-hit wonders. Let’s just call it the “Oopsie Show.”

Songs heard on this show:

• Ghandarvas, First Day of Spring
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Having an Average Weekend
• Elton Motello, Jet Boy Jet Girl
• Flesh for Lulu, I Go Crazy
• Pigbag, Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag
• The Refreshment, Banditos
• Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, What I Am
• Dee-Lite, Groove is in the Heart
• Dexy’s Midnight Runners, C’mon Eileen
• Mazzy Star, Fade into You

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on these stations:

• 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7pm
• Q107/Toronto – Sunday night at 9pm
• Live 88-5/Ottawa – Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 6pm
• 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener – Sunday nights at 11pm
• FM96/London – Sunday nights at 8pm
• Power 97/Winnipeg – Sunday nights at 10am and 10pm
• 107-3 The Edge/Calgary – Sundays at 10am and 10pm
• Sonic 102.9/Edmonton – Sunday at 8am and 8pm
• The Zone/Victoria – Sunday at 9am and 9pm
• The Fox/Vancouver – Sundays at 10am and 10pm
• The Goat Network/Interior BC
• WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm

 

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Accidents happen at work, and the stage is no exception. Ask Karen O of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She climbed a speaker stack during a set in Sydney in 2003 and managed to concuss herself when it all came down. To her credit, she climbed back on stage and attempted to finish the show.

Muse’s Matt Bellamy also tried to soldier on in 2004 when he smacked himself in the face with his guitar at an Atlanta gig. He tried to keep singing, but his mouth wouldn’t stop filling with blood. It took a few quick stitches at the hospital to fix that issue.

Then there was the case where Metallica’s James Hetfield almost got BBQed  back in 1992. At a show in Montreal, he got too close to some on-stage magnesium-based pyro that burned at 1,000 degrees. He was sent to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns.

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Sometimes you miss a big break by that much. Nirvana’s original drummer, Chad Channing, began to lose interest in the band in 1990 despite having just gone on a rather successful UK tour. He left before Nirvana’s Nevermind story began with Dave Grohl as the band’s drummer.

New Yardbirds bassist Chris Dreja decided he preferred photography and left the group, just as they were changing their name to a little band known as Led Zeppelin. A bassist named Tim Staffell walked out of a band called Smile he shared with a roommate in 1970. Staffell is a nice guy, though: he pointed to his flatmate, a fellow by the name of Freddie Mercury, in the direction of his eventual Queen bandmates.

Guitarist Keith Levene only lasted five shows with The Clash in ’76 and left a month before they broke out on The Sex Pistols’ Anarchy Tour. Unluckily enough, he also walked out of Public Image Limited two months before their they broke out commercially. Bad timing, Keith.

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When we go to a concert, we expect good sound.  But it wasn’t always that way. In the 60s and early 70s, PA systems used by bands at all levels were awful.  Even if you could hear anything, it certainly didn’t sound very good.

It wasn’t until the 1970s that bands insisted on better gear because fans were now demanding that they actually be able to make out what was being played onstage.  Groups had to sound just like their records.  Pioneers in this area were the Grateful Dead, the Eagles, Genesis, The Who and Pink Floyd.  They insisted on not only being loud, but clear–a pretty novel concept back in those days.

Today, sound systems are so sophisticated and computerized that it’s hard to tell what’s being played live and what’s pre-recorded.

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In 2003, some obscure records were discovered at a Washington DC flea market, all from someone called Mingering Mike. They looked real on the outside, but when they were opened up, there was no vinyl. Instead, there were round pieces of cardboard painted black to look like a record, complete with a fancy label, and—get this—hand-painted grooves.

Further investigation revealed that there were more than 150 Mingering Mike records—and Mike himself did not exist. He was the fantasy creation of a guy named, yes, Mike (well, maybe), who became fascinated by album artwork and the look of records. And so, he set about creating dozens and dozens and dozens of these odd records.

When they were discovered at that flea market, word spread to people like David Byrne and the Beastie Boys, who became fascinated by this odd and captivating style of outsider art. His creations are now the things of museum exhibits.

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As residents at the Crown Villa mobile home park in Vernon, B.C., begin a fourth week without power, some are trying to still make do as best they can.

“We are just hanging in there,” said resident Lisa Cantafio-Anderson.

Cantafio-Anderson said they are using a fire pit and camping stove to cook and using bottled water to cook and wash dishes.

“My husband’s been spending money that we shouldn’t, trying to keep us going, ” Cantafio-Anderson said. “He bought us a bigger battery to run our fridge. He got us a camping shower so we can shower at home.”

But keeping going will get increasingly more difficult.

This weekend’s highs of nearly 30 C are just a taste of what’s to come, as warm temperatures persist through the week and only increase in the coming weeks.

“We need our ACs and we don’t have anything powerful enough to run them, so our house, it’s going to be an oven. We live in a tin,” Cantafio-Anderson said.

It’s not known whether the City of Vernon would step in if the situation becomes a health concern as the city did not provide a response by the time of publication.

The power was shut off at the trailer park on April 2 after years of warnings and fines over what Technical Safety B.C.  called dangerous electrical hazards.

The property owner, Carol Goldstone, has repeatedly said she can’t afford the costly upgrades and bring it up to code, which she said are in the tens of thousands of dollars.

She said she’s been hoping to sell half the park to a developer to help with the electrical infrastructure repairs.

“I was going to go 50 per cent partnership to get a cash inflow. I need cash inflow here,” Goldstone told Global News Monday. “Everybody wanted 100 per cent that had approached me.”

Goldstone said she’s now willing to sell the entire trailer park property but with many legal issues to work out, admits it likely won’t happen quickly.

The situation is leaving residents like Cantafio-Anderson and her family with an uncertain future.

“We either want a new landlord to take over and raise our pad rent or a developer whoever to come in and say they don’t want us here and they pay us out and we can go right, but we need something,” Cantafio-Anderson said.

While some have left the park, according to Goldstone, residents in seven of the 11 units have remained.

A GoFundMe has been started to help support the affected residents.

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Sky-high jet fuel prices are being felt around the world and Saskatchewan is no exception.

Prices have shot up significantly since war broke out in the Middle East and airline operators offering critical services in Saskatchewan are among those feeling the pinch.

Airlines are doing what they can to minimize the impact on passengers. But it is a balancing act between pricing customers out of the market and staying viable as a company.

WestJet passengers are paying higher baggage fees as the airline deals with what it calls “current global conditions.”

Air Canada will suspend some routes temporarily, citing fuel costs that render them unprofitable.

And some airlines are adjusting fuel surcharges, all because of the war in Iran.

“Now, we did increase ours to accommodate in the first three weeks of the conflict, but in the last week we have reduced that amount on the ticket,” said Dan Gold, marketing director and stakeholder relations with Rise Air.

It had been reduced because a ceasefire on the conflict was announced. But oil prices are spiking again on continued uncertainty.

For Rise Air, who is a big player in Saskatchewan connecting resource companies with the north, it can be a challenge. Gold says they continue to monitor costs closely.

“We want to reassure people that they will continue to have access to the flights, and we continue with the essential services,” added Gold.

But adjusting surcharges and cutting flights is not an option for everyone. Operations like STARS Air Ambulance are forced to absorb higher fuel prices.

Fortunately, though, Barry Tolmie, Saskatoon Aviation base manager for STARS, says they have contingency funds for unexpected costs.

“We’re not going to scale anything back because of operating costs or anything like that. We have to be there for those patients that need us. So scaling anything back is not an option for us,” said Tolmie.

So while airlines adjust, the mission for STARS stays the same, relying heavily on corporate support and donations to help cover operating costs.

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Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart is alleging a current provincial cabinet minister is under investigation and that many people know about it.

Stewart, now an associate professor at the Simon Fraser University School of Public Policy, dropped this on Jas Johal’s CKNW show late on Monday afternoon.

“It’s come to my attention and I’ve reported it and in fact was interviewed for about four hours by lawyers working for the federal government about a B.C. cabinet minister under investigation for collaborating with the Chinese government,” Stewart said on the show.

“Something that myself I reported to senior BC NDP officials. I know the premier’s aware of it. I know that there. many members of cabinet are aware of this.

“This is an ongoing RCMP investigation that nothing’s being done about it. And essentially, in my view, we’re just rolling over and we’re not protecting our sovereignty from what I consider the biggest threat to democracy in Vancouver and across Canada.”

This conversation on CKNW came as Global News reported that Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News.

Global News also spoke to Stewart for that story and Stewart said that “mayor and council need to take this very seriously.”

-with files from Stewart Bell and Jeff Semple

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Montreal police have opened an investigation after demonstrators staged a mock beheading of an effigy of Quebec’s labour minister during a May Day rally, drawing widespread condemnation from political leaders.

Video from the event shows protesters using a guillotine to cut the head off a papier-mâché figure of Jean Boulet before cheering and kicking it.

The Montreal Police Service confirmed an investigation is underway, adding a “deep analysis” of the incident is being conducted.

Chantal Rouleau, Minister Responsible for Montreal, called the act unacceptable.

“It’s terrible that people can do that,” she said, adding “those people must excuse themselves. We are not like that in Quebec,” Rouleau said.

Legal experts say the act could carry potential criminal consequences.

“I think there could be a potential charge for a death threat. I mean, a guillotine is associated with an execution,” said lawyer Eric Sutton.

He added it remains unclear whether prosecutors would pursue charges, but “the potential is certainly there.”

In a joint statement, major unions including the Confédération des syndicats démocratiques, Confédération des syndicats nationaux, Centrale des syndicats du Québec and Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec distanced themselves from the act, calling it an isolated incident.

They said thousands of people took part in the International Workers’ Day demonstration, which they described as peaceful from start to finish.

Premier François Legault said on social media that unions had a responsibility to denounce what happened and noted they did so quickly.

“I am convinced that we will demonstrate that it is possible to move forward constructively without violence or threats,” he wrote.

The group behind the performance, known as the Workers Alliance, defended its actions in a statement, calling it a “carnival-style performance” meant to evoke “a historic symbol of popular anger against out-of-touch elites.”

The group said it believes most people present understood and supported its message, adding “the real threat to democracy isn’t paper-mâché puppets, but policies that primarily serve the interests of the elites.”

The demonstration comes amid tensions following job losses after Amazon’s departure from Quebec, leading to the loss of over 4000 jobs, which the group blamed on Boulet and the CAQ government.

Some Montrealers said the protest crossed a line. “You could agree or disagree with their politics, but it doesn’t have to turn into dragging their heads through the streets. That’s unbecoming of our democracy,” one person told Global News.

Workers Alliance said it will continue to encourage workers to pressure those in power, saying the working class is “done apologizing.”

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The Speaker of the Manitoba legislature, Tom Lindsey, tossed a Tory Opposition member from the chamber Monday, warned that other politicians could follow, and laid down a new list of words that will now be forbidden during debates.

Lindsey’s latest attempt to restore order follows an often-chaotic spring sitting that has seen heckling reach high levels of volume and, according to Lindsey, increasingly low levels of quality discourse.

“Members of the public … feel that what they’re seeing going on in this chamber is terrible, and they’re begging me to do something about it,” Lindsey said, adding that some school teachers have said they don’t like their students witnessing question period during visits to the building.

Lindsey ordered Progressive Conservative member Wayne Ewasko to leave the chamber for the day Monday over comments Ewasko made last month while heckling Premier Wab Kinew.

Ewasko had suggested Kinew, who doesn’t drink alcohol, had been drinking. Lindsey ordered Ewasko to apologize unequivocally Monday, and did not accept it when Ewasko apologized if Kinew took offence to the comments.

After additional warnings to fully apologize did not get a satisfactory response, Lindsey ordered Ewasko out until Tuesday.

Kinew, who is First Nation, said the comments were racist.

“It is a discriminatory comment that plays on an ugly stereotype about Anishinaabe people,” Kinew told reporters.

“I don’t drink. But ask yourself why, as a native guy, do I have to come out today and say I don’t drink. (Ontario Premier) Doug Ford doesn’t drink. (U.S. President) Donald Trump doesn’t drink. I don’t drink. That’s something that a lot of successful people don’t do.”
Ewasko said his comments were not racist, but were a reflection on Kinew’s own heckling and other behaviour during question period.

“It was a little off (from) how he usually answers questions or doesn’t answer questions,” Ewasko said.

“His behaviour was unacceptable, I feel, as a premier.”

Ewasko is the first politician to be ejected from the Manitoba legislature since New Democrat Nahanni Fontaine in 2021. She was ordered out after refusing to withdraw the word “crap” from an accusation she made against the Progressive Conservative government of the day.

Lindsey has tried to clamp down on heckling repeatedly in recent months to little effect. He issued a new warning Monday that he will now be more likely to eject people for the day if they disregard his orders.

He also revealed words that are being added to the list of unparliamentary language forbidden in the chamber. Bigot, racist, misogynist, homophobe and transphobe will join existing banned words such as liar and crap. Lindsey said other jurisdictions have already banned the words.

It’s not clear how long Lindsey’s new orders will be followed. Kinew indicated he will continue to use certain words.

“I will continue to call out racism when I see it. I will continue to call out different forms of hate when I see it,” Kinew said.

“I’ve known (Lindsey) for a decade now. We’ve been colleagues and when somebody says something is racist, I think it’s up to the folks who have not been part of that historically targeted community to listen.”

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