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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Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce the identity of Canada’s next governor general on Tuesday, Global News has learned.

Carney, on Monday, was travelling back to Ottawa from the Armenian capital of Yerevan where he had participated in the 8th European Political Community summit.

Neither he nor his senior aides were available to comment while they were in transit but his public itinerary for Tuesday indicates that, on Tuesday morning, he will be in Ottawa to “announce a new appointment.”

The current governor general, Mary Simon, an Inuk woman born in northern Québec, was the first Indigenous Canadian to hold the office.

While Simon spoke Inuktitut and English, her appointment was controversial because she did not speak both of Canada’s official languages, English and French.

Simon, like every Canadian-born governor general in Canada’s history, was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.

Her successor, the 31st Governor General of Canada, will be the first who will be appointed by King Charles III and first appointed on Carney’s recommendation.

Simon, who is 78, has indicated through her husband, that she is ready to retire.

Governors general do not serve for a defined term though most serve for about five years. Simon’s predecessor, Julie Payette, served less than three-and-a-half years while Payette’s predecessor, David Johnston, served for seven years and a day.

In Canada’s system of government, the governor general performs mostly a ceremonial role, acting as the commander-in-chief of Canada’s armed forces and the representative in Canada of Canada’s head of state, currently King Charles III.

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Advocates in Alberta have lost a court battle in their fight against provincial restrictions on medical treatment for transgender youth.

The groups Egale and Skipping Stone had asked a judge to let them make the argument that Premier Danielle Smith’s government acted outside its authority with the law.

Last year, her government used the notwithstanding clause to shield the restrictions from legal challenge.

The LGBTQ+ advocates argued that because doctors who didn’t comply with the new rules face fines or imprisonment, it’s a criminal issue and therefore falls to the federal government – not a provincial one – to oversee.

Smith’s government, however, has said the rule changes are to protect the health and safety of youth and fall within its purview.

On Friday, a Court of King’s Bench justice agreed. Justice Allison Kuntz dismissed Egale and Skipping Stone’s application, saying because the legislation is related to health and safety, it falls within the province’s constitutional control.

“Having determined that the ban falls within Alberta’s jurisdiction, it is unnecessary for me to consider any of the other issues raised by the parties on this application,” Kuntz wrote.

Egale and Skipping Stone said they plan to appeal.

“Every day that (the legislation) remains in force, transgender and gender-diverse young people in Alberta are denied access to medically necessary, evidence-based care,” the groups said in a statement Monday.

In a statement, Justice Minister Mickey Amery’s press secretary reiterated that the government’s legislation is about preserving the choices of children and youth, strengthening the role of parents, and ensuring fairness and safety in amateur competitive sports.

“Alberta’s United Conservative government will be unapologetic in our commitment to these principles,” Heather Jenkins said.

The legal fight dates back to 2024, when Smith’s government passed a series of laws affecting transgender individuals, including a ban on doctors from providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to those under 16.

The groups challenged that law on behalf of five families with transgender and gender-diverse youth.

They say the ban unfairly targets gender-diverse youth, forcing them to undergo puberty that is inconsistent with their gender identity.
In June 2025, they won in court when Kuntz granted a temporary injunction against the health restriction, saying it raised serious Charter issues that needed to be explored.

The judge said at the time the law would likely cause irreparable harm to gender-diverse youth.

In December, Smith’s government invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause on the transgender rules.

The clause allows a province to override certain Charter rights for up to five years.

Soon after, Kuntz set aside her original injunction.

The use of the clause prompted the advocacy groups to use the criminal law challenge, which was rejected by Kuntz on Friday.

The decision leaves Egale and Skipping Stone with their original Charter challenge against the health-care law.

But, that case is now on hold while the Supreme Court of Canada weighs in on a similar case in Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s government has used the notwithstanding clause to shield a law requiring teachers to first seek

permission from a student’s parent, if the student is younger than 16, before the student an change their names or pronouns in school.

The Saskatchewan government argued that its use of the notwithstanding clause also meant courts couldn’t assess whether the law violates Charter rights, but the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal rejected that.

The Supreme Court will examine if courts can declare whether the law violates Charter rights even if the law cannot be struck down because of the notwithstanding clause.

Alberta also has a similar pronoun rule in the books, as part of a trio of laws affecting transgender people.

The second is the health law, and the third bans transgender athletes 12 and older from participating in amateur competitive female sports.

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Calgary police have announced charges against a 37-year-old woman from High River in connection with the investigation into a spike in thefts from lockers at recreational facilities in the city.

In making the announcement, police said there are investigations ongoing into more than 60 locker thefts at various locations since November 2025.

In March 2026, police received reports of multiple thefts. In each case the victims reported that wallets, bank cards and identification documents were stolen.

Investigators later identified a suspect in two of the thefts that occurred at the Southland Leisure Centre on Jan. 30 and Feb. 15, 2026.

On Wednesday, April 15, Calgary police and the RCMP executed a search warrant on a residence in High River where they located a number of stolen documents.

As a result, a woman has been charged with four counts of possession of a stolen credit card and four counts of theft under $5,000.

During the course of their investigation, police said they also identified additional victims who had not previously reported the thefts to  police.

The investigation into dozens of thefts is ongoing.

“Reporting these incidents is crucial,” said Calgary police acting Insp. Paul Ralstin.  “It allows us to investigate each occurrence, identify trends and, in some cases, link suspects to multiple incidents.”

Such thefts, said Ralstin, can have “real impacts on victims and their feelings of safety.”

Police are also issuing a reminder to gym users to ensure their locker is fully locked and secured, avoid taking valuables to the gym if possible and report any suspicious behaviour and thefts to gym staff and police.

Anyone with information about any of the thefts is asked to call Calgary police at 403-266-1234.

Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477, online at www.calgarycrimestoppers.org or by downloading the Crime Stopper app (P3 Tips) from your app store.

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Class sizes, complexity, and a lack of support are concerns impacting 81 per cent of teachers in Manitoba, according to information shared by the Manitoba Teachers’ Society.

These are some of the issues identified in a new survey published by an organization representing teachers provincewide. Of the 3,470 teachers surveyed, more than three-quarters said students are not receiving the support to succeed.

“We have always had supports as teachers. We had guidance counsellors, and we have resource teachers, we have clinicians who are social workers and psychologists. We’ve had teams of people who come and help us who are able to help students learn in ways that are appropriate for students,” said Lillian Klausen, the president of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society.

“We have seen an erosion in all of those services over the past number of years. Now teachers in the classroom are becoming the counsellors and social workers and have all of these roles.”

Another gap identified was the accessibility of educational assistants (EA). Sixty-three per cent of teachers said they noticed a decline in EA support over the years.

“There needs to be more educational assistants. (Teachers) cannot function the way that they’re functioning — there’s a lot of burnout. They’re very overwhelmed. The kids are falling through the cracks because (teachers) have to pick and choose who needs more support,” said Jasmine Laye, the founder of All Kids Deserve Support.

Her 10-year-old son has ADHD and Tourette syndrome and requires an EA, but has never received one.

“Families and staff are seeing the same gaps, and every child deserves consistent support,” said Laye.

The survey found 48 per cent of students say they have six or more students with “complex needs” in their classrooms. Students with complex needs may require different, or additional, support with school-related materials, like reading, or struggle with mental health concerns, the society’s president explained.

When combined with rising class sizes and underfunding in education, Klausen said it is becoming a “pressing concern.”

“We want to see more EA supports in our schools. We want to see more clinicians coming in,” she added.

Despite the shortcomings reported, students are still enrolling and studying education.

The number of students admitted to the University of Manitoba’s Bachelor of Education program more than doubled this year, when compared to the fall semester of 2023. The Canadian Mennonite University reported filling all its available spots and had 18 potential students on its waitlist.

Consistent enrolment was reported from the University of Winnipeg’s and Brandon University’s faculties of education.

At the University of Winnipeg, 58 additional students were enrolled in its integrated education program. In the latter school, there was a less than 50 student increase in its undergraduate education students from 2024 to 2025.

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Ontario’s lottery agency says it has begun limiting how it identifies winners in public releases, using only first names and last initials in an effort to better protect privacy while maintaining transparency.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) spokesperson Tony Bitonti said the change took effect last week and applies to winner news releases, which will now identify recipients as, for example, “John S. of Toronto” instead of using full names.

Bitonti said the move responds to longstanding concerns from winners about having their identities widely circulated online, where information can persist indefinitely.

“We’ve been hearing from our winners for a while about the need to protect their privacy,” he said, adding the agency must balance that with its obligation as a government body to be transparent about payouts.

He said full names of winners will still be published on a list on the agency’s website that includes prize amounts and in which community and business establishment the person bought their winning ticket, ensuring public accountability.

The agency has long publicized winners through news releases, photos and promotional materials, but Bitonti said the digital age has heightened privacy risks, including scams that impersonate lottery winners online.

He said the organization works with social media platforms like Meta to remove fraudulent posts and wants to reduce the likelihood of winners being targeted.

Bitonti said transparency remains essential to maintain public trust and deter concerns about corruption, noting the agency has disclosed winner information since its inception in 1975.

“We are still being transparent, but we’re trying to balance that transparency with the concern for their privacy,” the OLG spokesperson told Global News by phone on Monday. “And we always hear from the public that they want to know who our lottery winners are.”

He said the British Columbia Lottery Corporation has adopted a similar approach since January, and other jurisdictions are reviewing their policies.

Despite the change, the agency will continue to share personal stories and photos of winners.

Bitonti said the goal is to ensure winners can enjoy their prize “without dealing with any untoward issues,” while still giving the public confidence in how lottery funds are awarded.

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