Many artists won’t go back and listen to their previous albums because all they hear are the mistakes and the things they should have done to make it better. But what’s done is done and it’s just best to move on. This happens to Dave Grohl every once in a while. He has a very hard time listening to the fourth album, One By One, from 2002.

Nothing was working during those sessions after three-and-a-half months of work and spending more than a million dollars in studio fees. Production was halted, and Dave went off to do some work outside the band, including a stint with Queens of the Stone Age. Then there was Taylor Hawkins’ near-fatal overdose, which messed things up even further.

The album did eventually come out and sold a respectable four million copies, but Dave feels it doesn’t sound like the band and didn’t feel right. Today, he thinks there are only four good songs on the record and seven bad ones.

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Last time, we traced the meaning of the word punk from the late 1500s to the 1950s. For all those centuries, the word had nothing to do with music. So how did that word come to describe a certain type of rock?

The first time anyone saw the word in print in a musical context was 1969, when the critic Lester Bangs used the word to describe a band called the MC5 in a review in Rolling Stone. In 1971, the writer Dave Marsh used the term “punk rock” in Creem magazine in May 1971. In June ’71, we’re back to Lester Bangs using the word in a long essay called “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung” while referring to bands with loud, fuzzy guitars. From there, it graduated to the New Yorker, where they used it in an article about the New York Dolls.

And finally, there was a mid-70s fanzine in New York that covered the weird underground stuff in the city. That magazine was called Punk, (a name chosen by writer Leggs McNeil). For many people, any band that appeared in Punk (like the Ramones, for example) was a “punk band.”  From there—well, here we are.

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When the Harry Bailey Aquatic Centre reopens its doors, it will now be under the same CUPE 59 operator.

The city closed its talks to possibly pass on the management to the YMCA following extensive push back from the union.

“At the end of the day, the right decision was made,” says CUPE Saskatchewan President Kent Peterson.

“When facilities like Harry Bailey are contracted out or privatized, we know that not only are the number of jobs cut, so it means job losses for people in Saskatoon, we also know the quality of jobs goes down. The level of pay goes down.”

Job loss was one of the many concerns the union and community members shared that unified their effort against the change.

“It’s clear that there was a broader concern with Saskatoon residents in that they felt they didn’t have any information about this at all from the city,” says Peterson.

While the decision answers the question on who will operate the facility, it raises another for both residents and the YMCA over where its programs will be run.

The YMCA Saskatoon sold its downtown building to the city for its proposed downtown arena district and will eventually be relocated.

“This was a very big opportunity for the city to help kids and it chose not to do it,” says Caswell Hill community resident Paula Gioino.

Giono is disappointed with the city for limiting an accessible program option for families to send their kids to.

“The YMCA brings a lot of youth programming that does not compare to what the city has to offer,” says Giono.

“When we’re talking about long-term problems, we want long-term solutions, right? Sports has proven to be great for mental health and development.”

The city says it will continue talks about the YMCA operating the planned East Side Leisure Centre.

It would be the first one built in Saskatoon since the Shaw Centre opened in 2009.

“We knew that the city was evaluating the different opportunities and Harry Bailey is not feasible at this time, but we’re excited about the potential opportunities at the future Eastside Leisure Centre,” says YMCA Saskatoon CEO Deeann Mercier.

Mercier said the city’s previous commitments to their employees needed to continue at Harry Bailey.

“City administration determined that continuing with a municipal operating model for Harry Bailey Aquatic Centre best meets our objectives at this time,” states Community Services general manager Celene Anger.

“The City will continue discussions with the Saskatoon YMCA regarding potential partnership opportunities, including the possible operation of the planned future East Side Leisure Centre.”

While there’s no timeline on that project, Giono worries that when the YMCA does leave there will be fewer program options for kids in the community.

“I think that in the big picture of how to make the city better and fixing some problems, we are not really focusing on the kids,” Giono says.

The city says construction at Harry Bailey is now more than 90 per cent complete, with a reopening targeted for fall of this year.

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Warning: This story contains graphic details. Discretion is advised.

A Toronto judge told a man who attacked his mother with a knife, leaving her to die in the woods at King’s Mill Park five years ago, that the manner in which he killed her made his crime worse.

“Though it has been years since this awful event … some wounds will never go away. I am afraid that the one Mr. Hatcher caused is such a wound. The grief and fear have continued to this day,” Superior Court Justice Sean Nakatsuru said in delivering his sentence to Colin Hatcher.

The judge found Colin guilty in April of second-degree murder in the death of his mother, Kathleen Hatcher.

Kathleen was found in a wooded area in King’s Mill Park on Feb. 26, 2021, just before 11 a.m. by a pedestrian who heard a woman screaming for help. She was lying face down in the snow after being repeatedly stabbed. The 69-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nakatsuru sentenced Hatcher to life in prison with a parole ineligibility period of 11 years, saying his actions were directly connected to the fact she was his mother.

“Your mother who gave birth to you, nursed you, cared for you when you were a child, encouraged and supported you even during the rough patches of your teens, took pride and joy in your accomplishments, and never turned her back on you when you became ill and a danger to her and the family — she trusted you. Even when there was reason not to. You betrayed her trust,” Nakaksuru said.

The judge told court that the murder of a beloved mother is an aggravating factor, but recognized that the most mitigating factor is the fact that Colin was suffering from schizophrenia at the time.

Assistant Crown attorneys Paul Zambonini and Maruna Birsan argued that the murder was planned and deliberate and should be considered in sentencing, saying an appropriate period of parole ineligibility would be 15 years or more.

The judge said he did not agree with those submissions, saying that while Colin did not meet the test for  being not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a mental disorder, his serious mental illness played a very big role in this crime.

As a result, Nakatsuru found that the son’s moral culpability is diminished.

The court heard that Colin had been involuntarily hospitalized in 2018, roughly three years before the murder, after threatening to kill both his parents. After being medicated and spending two weeks in hospital, he was released back into the community despite concerns from his mother that he wouldn’t comply.

At trial, the court heard that Kathleen became increasing worried that her son wasn’t taking his anti-psychotic medication, believed he was paranoid and delusional and feared being alone with him. A family physician who treated Colin also testified he agreed to wean him off his medicine a year before the murder.

At the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Laura Hatcher, Colin’s sister, said in her victim impact statement that she is concerned about what could happen to her brother if his treatment and monitoring fail while in prison.

“Colin has deep-seated paranoia about his family, and during the trial I learned that despite treatment while in detention, he still believes that the pact to kill his family is real,” said Laura.

Laura explained that she worries about how Colin might view her participation as a witness at the trial, and if he might act on it in the future.

“I am concerned about Colin’s compliance with treatment once he is on parole and what this could mean for my safety and that of my family,” she added.

“A lot of what I’m saying may sound like I am closing the door on Colin, but I am not,” Laura continued, saying she hopes he’s able to work on himself.

Colin, who did not testify at trial, was invited to give an elocution to the court Tuesday. He said he was very sorry and now accepts he has bad schizophrenia for which he’s being treated.

Nakatsuru told the court that rehabilitation and treatment are important principles at play.

“You now have taken medication. Are prepared to take injectables. And have claimed to have insight into your illness, something that is supported by others like your father. I am encouraged by what you say is your new insight and your taking of treatment,” the judge said.

The judge also acknowledged the family’s fear that continues to this day.

“Even while under treatment, you still have delusions about your family. Not only is that relevant to me, but I am also confident this will be carefully considered by the Parole Board in the future,” Nakatsuru said.

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A bill inspired by the killing of a Kelowna, B.C., woman is officially becoming law.

Bill C-225, known as Bailey’s Law, received royal assent on Wednesday, one day after passing third reading in the Senate.

“She will never be forgotten and her daughters will know that she has left behind a legacy, a legacy that will make a difference,” said an emotional Debbie Henderson, Bailey’s aunt and family spokesperson, at a news conference in the House of Commons shortly after the bill received royal assent.

The legislation introduces a series of reforms aimed at addressing intimate partner violence. It was championed by the family of Bailey McCourt and Kamloops-Thompson-Nicola Conservative MP Frank Caputo.

“Royal assent is when the Governor General signs the bill into law, so nothing can change it now,” Caputo said.

“This will now be law in the Criminal Code of Canada. We will see these changes on the books within 30 days.”

The law is named after Bailey McCourt, a 32-year-old mother of two, who was killed after an attack in a Kelowna parking lot on July 4, 2025.

Her estranged husband, James Plover, has been charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to stand trial in 2027.

Bailey’s Law introduces several changes to the Criminal Code, including the creation of a distinct offence for intimate partner violence, allowing incidents to be tracked separately from general assaults.

The legislation also creates new provisions that allow killings linked to a pattern of coercive or controlling behaviour in intimate relationships to be treated as first-degree murder.

“Bailey did everything that was asked of her by the system, and this system failed her, and it fails many others,” Henderson said.

She said the strengthened sentencing provisions will provide some reassurance to families affected by intimate partner violence.

“With that comes along a sentence that is 25 years to life and gives families an opportunity to breathe, not having to worry about attending parole hearings anytime soon,” she said.

Caputo, who introduced the private member’s bill last fall, called the legislation’s passage a significant achievement.

“This is a huge day. It’s a victory,” he said.

Caputo added he was particularly encouraged by the bipartisan support and the speed with which the bill moved through Parliament, especially given the fact many private member bills don’t see the light of day.

“I don’t think we’ve ever seen a private member’s bill make it through in less than a year,” Caputo said.

“The fact that we were able to react so quickly on this, that’s something that I’ll take with me to the end of my parliamentary career.”

While celebrating the legislative milestone, Henderson said more work remains to be done and is calling on the province to introduce additional protections for victims of intimate partner violence.

“I’m not going anywhere. I’m here for the fight,” she said. “We want to see GPS monitoring with geofencing, mobile geofencing, and real-time alerts to the victims. This is what will help keep them safe.”

Bailey’s Law  comes into effect as McCourt’s family prepares to mark the first anniversary of her death on July 4.

The community is being invited to join family and friends at Cupcasions on Kent Road that day from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The event will also serve as a fundraiser to help support advocacy work for further changes to better protect victims of intimate partner violence.

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A British Columbia mother who needed help with her son is fighting to get him back.

She alleges the temporary arrangement she agreed to with the Ministry of Children and Family Development was not honoured and her child was seized from her custody.

“I miss him. My home does not feel like a home without him,” she says. We cannot identify her because her seven-year-old boy is in the ministry’s care.

The mother says she was the one who reached out to the ministry for help. At the time, she was 29 weeks pregnant and her son was acting out in violent ways.

She negotiated a Voluntary Care Agreement with the ministry.

In a phone call she shared with Global News, the social worker could be heard saying that the mother was refusing to sign the VCA.

She is heard saying the revised VCA scrapped the agreed-upon amendments and she wasn’t refusing to sign it but wanted to collaborate on a new agreement.

But the social worker informed her that her son was removed from her care.

“Shocking and jarring,” she says of the experience. “Trying to quite literally coerce me into signing a new VCA, which was different and did not safeguard making sure that my son’s needs were met, which was the entire reason for the VCA in the first place.”

Angela Clancy, executive director of the Family Support Institute of BC, describes this family’s case as shocking.

“It’s in the title: it’s voluntary, it’s optional. So, to actually remove a child from a parent and from their home based on a family refusing to sign a voluntary care agreement didn’t make sense to me,” Clancy says.

Disability advocate Tamara Taggart has been helping other parents navigate their case with the ministry and says there is a disturbing pattern.

“It’s usually a single mom who has a child with a disability or support needs, and she asks for help from the ministry, and her child is apprehended,” she says.

Minister Jodie Wickens says she cannot comment on specific cases and provided an emailed statement, reading in part: “Our role is to work with families, providing the support they need, and doing everything we can to keep families together, even in the most complex situations.

“The balance, however, of keeping families together and keeping children safe often means making tough decisions, and there are times when not all parties involved will agree with a decision, which must be grounded in the facts of the case and the best interests of the child.”

The mother’s legal team says the mother is willing and able to care for her son and there is no evidence of child protection concerns to justify his ongoing removal.

Their case will be heard by a judge in July.

Presentation hearings are supposed to happen within seven days, but the mother has been waiting months.

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It’s going to be a while before Aaron Cockerill can swing a golf club again.

The professional golfer from Stony Mountain is back home in Manitoba and on the road to recovery after recently undergoing shoulder surgery for a torn labrum.

“It was in and out,” said Cockerill. “I had a little bit of an allergic reaction; I guess to some of the anesthesia stuff. So, I woke up with my eyes were past my forehead quite a bit.

“Yeah, painful a few days afterwards but I think he (doctor) said it went well and we’re slowly getting better, and more mobility and movement every day.”

Cockerill had to put his golf season on the DP World Tour on hold after being bothered by the injury for a couple of years. And when the injury started to affect his game, he knew it was time to get it taken care of.

“I had stints where I went to physio and the rehab and it was improving,” he said. “And then I had stints where it was clunking and moving and painful. It was just kind of hit or miss, and it was becoming physical, mental. I did notice in the last two or three months I was starting to lose a little bit of club head speed as well.”

Cockerill received a medical exemption from the DP World Tour, so he’ll regain his status once he’s healthy again with doctors telling him he’s looking at a five to six-month recovery before he can hit the fairways again.

“That seems optimistic to me right now, not being able to lift my arm,” said Cockerill. “But I’m planning to play events starting in the new year.”

Cockerill is still looking for his first victory after eight seasons on the tour. At his peak, he was the 190th-ranked golfer in the world, but after making the cut only six times in 12 tournaments this season while dealing with shoulder pain, he saw his ranking tumble to 542nd.

“I have had some swings over the last couple of years where it would click or pop or clunk on the downswing and I was just becoming not very confident in it,” he said.

“I can think of one specifically downswing where you’re hitting the iron off the tee. It’s an easy shot and I remember it just kind of gave way, unstable, and I just kind of like chunked it into the water. Something that you shouldn’t be doing at the professional level.”

Cockerill moved his wife and two young children to Dubai to be closer to tour events, but they felt it was best to leave in March shortly after the Iran war broke out.

“It would be a nice blue-sky day and you just kind of hear a poof in the distance and missiles were being intercepted,” Cockerill said. “It was a little strange, but our day-to-day life wasn’t really affected.”

He’ll be moving back to the United Arab Emirates in September following a much-needed break from golf after jetting all over the planet.

“I’ve never done this.” said Cockerill. “Just going to soccer practice and doing all those things and changing diapers and stuff. It’s been fun.

“I say that now, but who knows. Ask me in another two or three weeks; things could change. I don’t know.”

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Technical Safety BC says “electrical non-compliances” have been found at Cultus Lake Waterpark in Cultus Lake, B.C., where 12 children were left with electrical burns on Monday.

In a statement, the organization, which oversees waterparks in the province, said that in order for the park to reopen, it will need to conduct further investigation, and the park owner will need to correct all hazards.

As a result, the waterpark remains closed with no timeline for reopening.

“We understand that the closure of a popular summer attraction is disappointing for visitors and families looking forward to their summer activities,” Technical Safety BC said in a statement.

“However, the safety of the public remains our top priority.”

Twelve children are recovering after an electrical incident at Cultus Lake Waterpark on Monday.

Just after 11 a.m. on Monday, a group was lined up for the Zero – 60 Speedway slide when they suffered an electrical shock.

“There’s a queuing area at the bottom of that ride with railing and when they made contact with that, that’s where the incident occurred for a brief time,” Andrew Steuneberg, general manager for the waterpark, said on Monday.

“That’s the anomaly that they seem to be investigating right now.”

BC Hydro confirmed it was an electrical issue at the park and that it originated on the “customer’s side” of the electrical service.

Ten of the children injured were on a field trip from Minnekhada Middle School in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

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For more than a decade, the view after Calgary Transit riders emerge from the Westbrook LRT station has been the same: weeds, a few benches and walking paths.

But throughout that time, the potential has been visible too.

Now, the City of Calgary is doing something about it.

“It can become more than just a place to go to and from the CTrain,” explained Ward 8 Coun. Nathaniel Schmidt.

The city is embarking on public consultations for a master plan of the 4.2-hectare land on the corner of 17 Ave. and 33 St. SW, with an online survey running through the end of the month, along with in-person and online feedback sessions.

Global News spoke to several people who frequent the area. All of them shared a vision for the site that’s drastically different than the desolate landscape it is today.

“Just a place that’s walkable,” said lifelong Westbrook resident Maru Mwangi.

“It would be nice to have more places you can sit.”

“You (can) make it a place where A) people want to live; and, B) people who live nearby gravitate to,” Cole Trifunov said. “It gives (the area) foot traffic and gives people a reason to get off the LRT here.”

The land was originally sold to Matco Development in 2016 but the City of Calgary purchased the land back in 2024 after no meaningful progress was made with the site.

This time around, Schmidt says, the area will be split into a half dozen parcels that will make it more attractive for developers.

“There’s an easement along the (underground CTrain line), which means you can’t go underground very much,” Schmidt said. “So we’re looking it turning that into a park, then the surrounding buildings would complement that park, but leave that open because that faces the south so that the sun can come through.”

Schimdt says the land’s current zoning requires commercial buildings on the south end of the property facing 17 Avenue, but he believes that’s what residents will want anyway.

As a regular at that LRT station, Schmidt says he’s long thought about what the site could turn into — and so have residents he’s heard from.

“There’s some (ideas) that are different, but for the most part people are expressing an interest in providing a place for people to live but also a place for people that come and gather.“

Shameer Gaidhar with the Calgary Inner City Builders Association says a parcel like this, with development already surrounding it, isn’t available often.

“There’s existing infrastructure, existing businesses around there and all will benefit from them from that place being developed,” Gaidhar said.

“And it’s not a great thing for taxpayers as well, because it’s being taxed on its current use, not its highest and best use… it could be generating income for all Calgarians through property taxes.”

The area’s master plan should be finished by the end of 2026, Schmidt says. If all goes well, he believes development could begin by the end of the current council term in 2028 or 2029.

Once the work is done, he hopes it becomes a place where people want to spend time, not just pass through.

“Overall, people just want to see something get done.”

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A judge will decide whether investigators can keep the seized phones of Calgary’s former mayor and a former city councillor for longer as part of an investigation into allegations of municipal corruption.

Lawyers for former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek and former Ward 4 councillor Sean Chu were in court Wednesday to make arguments against an application by the Calgary Police Service to keep the phones for nine more months.

Gondek’s phone was seized three months ago, as was Chu’s cellphone, an Apple watch and a tablet, according to sworn affidavits signed by Det. Matt White, a CPS investigator who has been seconded to the RCMP unit investigating the matter.

White was peppered with questions by Gondek’s lawyer, Rebecca Snukal, in a Calgary courtroom Wednesday morning.

The lead investigator told Snukal that the current version of Cellebrite, the software that CPS uses to extract data from cellphones, can’t access Gondek’s locked iPhone 17.

Court heard there are similar issues with accessing Chu’s phone as well as a phone owned by Nathan Robb, a local developer behind the project that was the subject of the July 2025 land use decision from the previous city council.

Snukal confirmed that, to date, nobody from the investigative team has asked Gondek for her passcode.

She said police are “relying on hope” that Cellebrite will update its technology to be able to access newer models of iPhones, but that there are no plans to find other methods to access the phones.

“There’s hope but there’s also the idea that technology is constantly evolving,” White testified.

“The problem here is you don’t have a scintilla of evidence that Cellebrite is actually even working on this issue,” argued Chu’s lawyer, Shamsher Kothari.

According to court documents, the investigation is focused on a land-use application in front of the previous city council last summer, which was defeated in a 6-6 tie, but later was approved following a reconsideration motion brought forward by Chu.

Gondek wasn’t in attendance for the first vote, but was present for the second vote, which was 8-5 after Chu changed his vote.

The lead detective said in an affidavit that police received information that claimed local development consultant David White allegedly “had been offering campaign donations that exceeded the maximum allowed to councillors, in exchange for them tabling a reconsideration motion.”

“A search of White’s phone yielded evidence of the offences and it was determined that Gondek had provided guidance to White on a tactic to approach another councillor in an effort to secure a reconsideration motion,” the officer’s affidavit read.

Another affidavit from Det. White claims White’s phone included evidence that alleges Chu was approached by White “in the hopes of securing a reconsideration motion.”

“Chu advised David White to keep conversations to his personal phone as his work phone would be subject to Freedom of Information requests,” the affidavit read.

Det. White testified that he has the conversations between Gondek and the development consultant from White’s phone but can’t determine if any information has been deleted from those conversations.

“I’d like to see them side by side,” he said. “I can tell you there were attempts of messages being deleted… throughout this investigation I have located correspondence and communications with all parties that have attempted to be deleted.”

Justice Allan Fradsham has reserved his decision to extend how long police can hold the phones belonging to Gondek, Chu, and Robb.

None of the allegations in the affidavits have been proven in court and no charges have been laid.

The lawyers representing each of those named in the affidavits have declined to comment on the allegations.

Another hearing on the matter is scheduled for next month.

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