Okay, okay, okay! I hear you! Lemme make some amends here.

In spring 2026, I set out to explore alt-rock one-hit wonders. It was a five-episode series in six parts (very Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that) on the biggest songs of that sort since 1976, which is year zero for the whole alternative thing… more or less. Let’s not get bogged down here.

The first five episodes covered ten songs each, all ranked using a complicated logarithmic formula designed by my friend, Walter the mathematician. A lot of effort went into that top 50 list—but it wasn’t enough.

That’s where the sixth episode came in. It was an addendum, an erratum, really, of songs that maybe should have made it into the original top 50 list. Fine. I’m big enough to admit when I’ve made an error or left something out.

I did the sixth episode, and I thought, “Well, that’s over. We’re done here.” But apparently not. In the weeks and months that followed, I got hundreds of emails and DMs from people pointing out even more alt-rock one-hit wonders that should have made the cut.

This left me uneasy. The job wasn’t done, and I hate loose ends. So let’s do the one-hit-wonder thing one more time, incorporating some of those missed tracks. And I’ll explain why several acts who are thought to be one-hit wonders really aren’t.

So, clean-up on aisle three, I guess. Here we go…

Songs heard on this show:

• Voice of America, The Story of Love
• When in Rome, The Promise
• 4 Non-Blondes, What’s Up?
• Tripping Daisy, I Got a Girl
• Jars of Clay, Flood
• Primitive Radio Gods, Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
• Dog’s Eye View, Everything Falls Apart
• Len, Steal My Sunshine

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

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Alberta’s Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says when former prisoners were quietly released from custody in Edmonton’s downtown recently, it came down to “human error.”

It comes after surveillance videos published by CBC and Global News earlier this month showed provincial corrections transport vans dropping off detainees in an inner city neighbourhood.

The videos drew concern and calls for reform from local officials, as well as residents and business owners in Edmonton’s Chinatown area.

Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack pressed Ellis Friday for details about what the province is doing to ensure similar drop-offs don’t happen again.

Ellis says he was outraged to learn of the two incidents in Edmonton, and said it wasn’t prompted by a directive from him.

But Knack, and Dylan Bressey, the head of the province’s largest group of municipalities, say the issue isn’t unique to Edmonton.

Speaking to reporters at the Alberta Municipalities convention in Edmonton, Knack said he wants to work with the minister, but said there seems to be a gap in understanding.

“There’s a disconnect from what is believed to be the actual process and what is actually happening in municipalities across this province,” Knack said.

Ellis later told reporters at an unrelated news conference that dropping off former correctional facility detainees on to the streets is not a common practice.

“In both of those cases, it was human error,” he said again.

“We’re all human beings.”

Ellis, the former mental health and addiction associate minister, said everything he has worked on building as part of the province’s recovery-focused system has always been about a warm handoff.

“This is what I am vehemently opposed to, is just dropping people off where they have no supports,” he said.

Ellis said he has been told by Corrections Alberta that they will be taking measures to ensure the same drop-offs don’t happen again, but didn’t provide details.

Dylan Bressey, Alberta Municipalities president and city councillor in Grande Prairie, said it’s an issue in communities near correctional facilities across Alberta, including his own.

“They’re getting unloaded on our city streets where there isn’t adequate social services for them, and it’s creating social chaos as well as costing a lot of money and police, fire, and parks response,” he told reporters Friday.

He said he’s heard anecdotes from councillors in several communities, but they don’t have good data.

“For us, it’s really important that when somebody is released from either care or prison, that they’re released with a proper plan and the proper resources to help them be healthy and also receive whatever supervision or care they need going forward,” Bressey said.

When Ellis was asked about reports of similar instances in Grande Prairie, he said he wasn’t aware of them.

He said Corrections Alberta will drive people to wherever they need to go, which in some cases can be an hours-long trip to their home community.

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The City of Winnipeg is taking the next steps on a fourth emergency response pathway, after the model was approved by city council.

“Presently, when someone calls 911, the dispatcher only has three choices,” Mayor Scott Gillingham told Winnipeg city council Thursday.

“They can send police officers, firefighters or paramedics — but not every call requires one of those, or a combination of those three responses.”

To that end, city council unanimously agreed to adopt and begin the development of the Winnipeg Community Crisis Response (WCCR) Model at their final meeting before the October municipal election.

The WCCR is a fourth crisis response pathway which handles 911 calls that don’t require first responders’ services.

When the caller, or subject of an emergency services call, is struggling with mental health or addiction — and does not pose a risk to themselves or the public — the WCCR can respond.

Gillingham leads the executive policy committee, which submitted the motion to the council. The WCCR team will act as a fourth option, who can only be summoned after the individual is triaged by dispatch, he said.

“It would also, of course, free up our police officers, firefighters and paramedics. And our emergency services are under the strain of increasing call volumes,” Gillingham said, noting that an analysis estimated 10,000 calls could be diverted from first responders to the WCCR.

The model remains under development and will likely be tweaked during a working table between the City of Winnipeg and Manitoba government, he continued.

Miguel Betti, the director of operations at the Downtown Community Safety Partnership (DCSP), said the WCCR model is a good first step.

“New ideas are good,” Betti told Global News in an interview. “As we learn more about society and what people need in order to succeed in life, I think it’s crucial that we try new ideas out — especially if the ones that are being used aren’t working.”

The DCSP was consulted by the City of Winnipeg while it was developing the model brought before the council. The DCSP was one of several community organizations the city spoke with.

For the fourth crisis response pathway to be successful, Betti said communication will be key as different agencies often all interact at some point with the same people.

“We all see a lot of the same folks, and it’s really important to communicate with each other (and) check in, to be able to then provide the best support we can to community members,” he said.

The idea has been tested in other Canadian cities already.

The City of Toronto launched its pilot of the Toronto Community Crisis Service in 2022. It became an official fourth emergency service two years later.

Michael Anhorn is CEO at the Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto — the group is one of five that helps the city operate its crisis program.

For Winnipeg’s program to work effectively, he said those struggling need their immediate needs met, as well as long-term support.

“Having mental health professionals go and respond to a mental health crisis is letting us both match crisis response with professional type — so serving them better — but also allowing us to connect people in crisis to longer-term supports, which then, tends to prevent the next crisis,” Anhorn said.

He congratulated the City of Winnipeg for embarking on the journey to form a crisis response team that will support people struggling with mental health concerns and addictions.

“This is a brave thing to do, especially in the environment we’re in right now,” Anhorn said.

“To recognize that people’s human dignity is more important than political ideology, I think, is critically important.”

The City of Winnipeg’s current plan for the program includes the community organizations involved in the WCCR model, following up with people who required their assistance.

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Ontario Provincial Police have arrested and charged one of its own sergeants with 28 years of service following a child sexual exploitation investigation.

Chris Weise, 54, of Alliston, Ont., was arrested and charged on Sept. 8 with accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material and possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material.

Police say they executed a search warrant at his residence and seized a number of electronic devices back in June.

The investigation revealed that the accused is an OPP sergeant with 28 years of service who is currently on an unrelated leave of absence.

Weise is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Bradford on Oct. 8, 2026.

The OPP says anyone with information regarding this investigation should contact the force at 1-888-310-1122. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or write to ontariocrimestoppers.ca. Information can also be reported through cybertip.ca.

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A Nova Scotia law firm says it has served a notice of an intended class action against the Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education (CCRCE) on behalf of students at a Pictou County school for alleged abuse by a teacher who was charged this week with sexual assault.

Matthew Donahoe, 53, of Bible Hill, N.S. is charged with 10 offences, including assault by choking, sexual assault, and administering a noxious thing. He is also listed as an intended defendant in the class action.

RCMP said they received a report on Sept. 10 of an alleged assault at Dr. W.A. MacLeod Consolidated School, a pre-primary to Grade 8 school, in Riverton, N.S.

RCMP said additional victims have been identified since the Sept. 10 report and they believe there could be more.

Court documents show that the allegations involve four victims, and that the noxious substance allegedly administered was lorazepam, which is a prescription anti-anxiety medication.

MacGillivray Injury and Insurance Law said Friday it is seeking to hear from parents and guardians of any student who attended the learning centre at the school from September 2025 until September 2026. As well, they want to hear from families of students at other schools where Donahoe taught.

“The parents of these vulnerable, special needs children are scared and upset,” Jamie MacGillivray, the law firm’s founder and CEO, said in a news release.

“We hope we can support them to get the help they need.”

The firm says its claim will allege that a sedative was administered to a student without a prescription or parental consent, and that students were subjected to chokeholds and excessive force.

The CCRCE did not immediately provide comment regarding the notice of intended action, but previously told Global News it was taking the charges seriously.

“These charges are deeply troubling, and I can assure you that CCRCE takes these matters very seriously,” a spokesperson from CCRCE said in an e-mailed statement on Thursday.

“The school has notified families that the individual has been placed on leave as the RCMP continues its investigation.”

Attempts by Global News to reach Donahoe regarding the potential civil action were unsuccessful.

Donahoe appeared in Pictou Provincial Court on Thursday and was released on conditions, including that he not have contact with 10 individuals and that he stay away from anyone under the age of 18.

MacGillivray Law said that the CCRCE, which is a Crown agent, is entitled to two months’ notice before legal action can be taken against it.

The law firm said it plans to file a statement of claim in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia when the two-month period expires, and seek certification for a class action.

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Alberta’s Opposition NDP is challenging the legality of new government rules that severely restrict the amount of voter information elections officials can share with political parties.

In a court application filed Thursday in Edmonton, the NDP argue the new policy undermines the purpose of having a voter list as laid out in provincial law and that it should be struck down.

The government’s new rules, published last week, say Elections Alberta can only provide political parties with copies of the voter list containing the number of voters in each voting area and municipality.

It’s a major change, as parties used to be provided first and last names, addresses, phone numbers and unique voter identification numbers.

Justice Minister Mickey Amery’s office has said the policy was temporary and was meant to keep Albertans’ private information more secure after a major privacy breach involving a separatist group earlier this year.

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says he’s concerned it could open the door to voter fraud in the Oct. 19 referendum, as scrutineers overseeing the ballot count won’t have the information needed to make sure people aren’t voting multiple times.

Amery’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the court challenge.

The province’s official voter list is managed by Elections Alberta and copies are distributed to political parties, legislators, election candidates and constituency associations for activities such as campaigns and fundraising.

Elections Alberta said last week that it will still be using the detailed voter list to manage and keep track of voters in the referendum.

— More to come…

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A new tax on unsold condominiums was among the promises British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby made Friday in the first week of the snap election he called for Oct. 24.

At a campaign stop in Burnaby, B.C., with a condo complex under construction behind him, Eby said his government would introduce the new tax and hike the existing speculation and vacancy tax to improve housing affordability if his party is re-elected.

Eby said the condo tax would apply on finished units that have been left empty for more than a year.

The leader pointed to what he said was a “damming” report from Real Property Data that estimates thousands of unsold units worth $4.4 billion currently sitting empty across Metro Vancouver.

“They are brand new,” he said. “They are ready for people to move in. They have been built.”

The tax would have a starting rate of two per cent and increase by one per cent for each additional year the units remained unsold, a plan that could unlock about 5,000 condos, Eby said.

B.C. residents should not have to pay sky-high prices to rent or buy homes, while developers sit on thousands of unfinished units and wait for prices to go up, he said.

“We will intervene,” he said. “We will stand up for British Columbians, just like we stand up to (U.S. President Donald) Trump, stand up to developers. We will stand up for the families, who are struggling with affordability,” he added.

Friday’s announcement comes amid ongoing questions about a joint federal-provincial plan to purchase more than 2,220 vacant condominiums in B.C. to convert them into affordable housing.

When the plan was announced in June alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney, Eby promised additional details in the fall, but that was before this week’s election call.

The New Democrat leader also said his government would increase the existing speculation and vacancy tax to two per cent for domestic owners and to five per cent for foreign owners.

The former NDP government brought in the tax in an effort to turn more vacant homes into housing and to ensure foreign owners or those with foreign income contributed fairly to B.C.’s tax system.

The tax applies to municipalities in Metro Vancouver, the Capital Regional District in Greater Victoria and 26 other municipalities.

When asked about opinion polls that shows his party trailing the Conservatives under their interim leader Lorne Doerkson, Eby said it was early days into the campaign.

“There are going to be a lot of polls.”

Doerkson and his B.C. Conservatives haven’t had an official campaign event since Tuesday, the day of the election call.

A party spokesperson said Doerkson has been doing interviews from his home riding of Cariboo-Chilcotin and was expected to be in the Lower Mainland Friday.

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A Winnipeg woman is speaking out after she says she was the victim of an elaborate romance scam.

“Over the course of six weeks, we talked every day, and I believed that we were establishing a romantic emotional connection,” the woman said. Global News is not identifying the woman as she works with vulnerable youth.

The woman says she met the man on Tinder.

“Within a month of us talking, he asked if I would be open to exclusivity with him as he just wanted to get to know me on a deeper level. And I thought the same. We shared a lot of the same beliefs, thoughts, our ideologies, including like what we wanted in the future for ourselves,” she said.

“At this part of him and I talking for the six weeks, I never really had suspicions or doubts of what he was saying.”

She says the man, who Global News is not identifying, claimed to own a cybersecurity company, and had recently moved to Winnipeg but was on a business trip in Edmonton. She says they arranged to meet up in Toronto, before both returning back to Winnipeg. The woman says she now believes the man was using a fake name.

“He flew me out there. The person that I met in Toronto aligned with what he was telling me over our conversations,’ she said.

She says when she met him, he appeared loving, generous, and protective.

“There was never any moment I thought I was being deceived, he did a very good job making me believe he wanted to take care of me,” the woman said.

The woman says he told her that his gym locker was broken into while in Edmonton and that his wallet was stolen, sending her photos of a broken gym locker. She says he asked to use her credit card, and they rented a vehicle in Toronto with her credit card.

But, the woman says, when she returned to Winnipeg, things started to change. She says he told her his flight to Winnipeg was delayed, asked her to extend the rental vehicle, and asked if she could send him money.

“I was a little bit hesitant but again I took the benefit of the doubt, so I sent him some money,” she said.

“The turning point as well is when I told him the vehicle needed to be returned and that’s when I began to see a shift in his character, he became a lot more aggressive and volatile.”

Global News has viewed text messages and voice messages from the man, including texts and voice messages of him asking if she had a credit card, asking to use her credit card, and asking if she could transfer him money.

The woman says she made a report with the rental car company, who tracked the vehicle through GPS and found it abandoned in a parking lot. Global News has viewed the incident report and the rental bill.

“What was flabbergasting to me is he continued to portray that he still had the vehicle to extort more money from me,” the woman said.

In total, she says she transferred him nearly $2,700, she was left with a $6,000 rental car bill, and he attempted to charge nearly $15,000 to her credit card, but the woman said she was able to have the credit card charges reversed. She says he also requested an additional $3,000, but she declined.

She says she reported it to the Winnipeg Police Service. A spokesperson for WPS wouldn’t provide specific details on the case, but said the investigation is ongoing.

In the meantime, she says she is speaking out and sharing her story in hopes of preventing other women from falling victim.

“He did a very good job making sure I wouldn’t know who he is,” she said.

“And what concerns me the most is his arrogance in thinking no one would catch him.”

According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, romance or relationship scams often target dating apps, but also often occur on social media and online gaming chatrooms.

Jeff Horncastle, the client and communications outreach officer for the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, says often the scammers invest a lot of time in building up a victim’s trust.

“They want to make sure that personal trust is established before they request money or personal information. And unfortunately, we see that last for months before the first request for money happens,” Horncastle told Global News.

“And that’s what makes romance fraud so detrimental not only financially but emotionally as well.”

In the first six months of 2026, there was $23 million in losses related to romance and relationship scams reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. In all of 2025, there was $63 million in losses.

Horncastle says if you feel you may be a victim of a romance or relationship scam, it’s important to stop communication with the individual, and report it to police, your financial institution, and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.

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A Saskatchewan-based potash exporter is investing $500 million to upgrade a North Vancouver shipping terminal and bolster Canadian potash shipments.

The money will replace and refurbish equipment at the Port of Vancouver’s Neptune Bulk Terminals, according to a news release from the Saskatchewan government. Gordon McKenzie, the company’s president and CEO, made the announcement at a groundbreaking event for a Canpotex infrastructure project Friday.

“Today’s investment at Neptune means we will be able to reliably export Saskatchewan potash through the Port of Vancouver to farmers overseas for decades to come,” McKenzie said in the release.

More than 15 million tonnes of Canadian potash are delivered by Canpotex annually. It ships the critical mineral from producers, including Nutrien and Mosaic Canada, to more than 40 countries every year, according to its website.

Vancouver Fraser Port Authority President and CEO Peter Xotta described Canpotex’s investment as “significant” in the news release.  The funds “will better connect Saskatchewan potash to key markets in South America, the Indo-Pacific and beyond,” he said.

“Port of Vancouver terminals, such as Neptune, are playing an outsized role moving more of what Canadians make to overseas markets in support of Canada’s goal to double exports to non-U.S. markets,” Xotta added.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said the company’s move reinforced the province’s position in the global potash market.

“By moving more Saskatchewan potash to international markets, this project will create new opportunities and support good jobs and economic growth in our province as well as across Canada,” Moe said in the news release.

Saskatchewan is home to the vast majority of Canada’s potash supply. From January to July of this year, $5.9 billion worth of its potash was sold, according to data from the province’s Ministry of Energy and Resources.

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The federal government has announced it will transfer $461 million to New Brunswick for infrastructure projects as part of a new agreement.

A news release from the federal Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities says the funding includes $305 million for housing and post-secondary education projects and priorities.

The federal government says New Brunswick has agreed in the deal that it won’t increase any fees or taxes that hinder housing supply.

The province says $155 million of the funding is set aside for health infrastructure.

Officials say the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital in Moncton, N.B., will receive $25.7 million for endoscopy modernization and expansion, and $1 million for future planning.

The cash comes from Ottawa’s $51-billion Build Communities Strong Fund, which was announced as part of the 2025 federal budget.

“Canada and New Brunswick are making strategic investments that will help unlock new housing, strengthen post-secondary education and support modern, reliable health infrastructure,” federal Internal Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said in a statement.

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