This may seem like a silly thing to say, but once upon a time, the only way to get music was to listen for it. You turned on a radio or you bought a record.

If it sounded good, there was a chance the song might become a hit. That’s what mattered: the sound of the record.

That all began to change in the 1970s, and in less than ten years, sound began to matter less. How the song looked became the thing.

Critics laughed at the notion of a “music video” in the early days. But then came MTV, the world’s first 24-hour music video channel. They called it “illustrated radio”—and it worked.

After that we got MuchMusic, VH1, M2, Edge-TV, MuchMoreMusic, MuchLoud, The Box, and dozens of others around the world. And for years and years, if you wanted a chance to make it big, you had to make a music video. Yes, it was expensive, but too bad—it was all part of the game.

During the heyday, some videos cost millions and millions of dollars. Remember the video for “Scream” by Michael and Janet Jackson back in 1995? In today’s money, that video, which runs four minutes and 47 seconds, cost just under $15 million. Madonna made three videos with budgets of more than $10 million. You can make a feature-length movie with that kind of cash.

Pretty singers with mediocre songs often became stars, while less-attractive performers with good songs had a real chance of being passed over.

The art of the video affected the art of moviemaking. It influenced the way we look at television, not to mention fashion, language, politics, gender fluidity, LGBTQ issues, and so much more. Videos may have altered our attention spans—which kind of concerns me, because this program is an hour long and I need you to hang in there with me.

Music videos exported soft power from the West—especially the United States—to the rest of the world. At one point, MTV was one of the most influential creators and disseminators of culture—and by “culture” I mean America.

That was then. Music videos are still an art form and still necessary (well, mostly necessary) for promoting music, but things just aren’t what they used to be.

How did we get to this point? This is the rise, fall, and future of the music video.

Songs heard on this show:

• Captain Beefheart, Lick My Decals Off, Baby
• David Bowie, Ashes to Ashes
• The Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star
• Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer
• Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit

Eric Wilhite has a 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 10anm and 10pm
• The Goat Network/Interior BC
• Surge 105/Halifax – Sunday at 7pm
• WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm

Don’t forget there’s a  podcast version (along with hundreds of others) available, in case you miss an episode. Get them for free wherever you get your podcasts.

 

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Wet Leg, featuring Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, is one of the most exciting bands to come out of the UK this decade. Here are a few facts about them that might have escaped your attention so far.

First of all, the band is from the Isle of Wight. Rhian and Hester were friends for about ten years before they formed the band. Hester had a job making jewelry while Rhian was a stylist.

(2) They found their name by playing a game with emojis. When the emojis for “wet” and “leg” came together, they decided that was it. Well, maybe that’s the story. Another explanation is that “wet leg” is Isle of Wight slang for non-locals.

(3) When they first started playing live, they were booked for hour-long sets. The problem with that is they only had 35 minutes’ worth of music. They had to fill time with covers and extended jams of their own songs. It was…awkward.

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Here are some facts about Linkin Park that you can use to impress your friends.

(1) Before he moved to LA to join Linkin Park, Chester Bennington had a job slinging Whoppers at a Burger King in Phoenix.

(2) Drummer Rob Bourdon decided he wanted to play the drums when he was ten. His mom was best friends with Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer. Mom got them both backstage, where Joey gave Rob his first-ever drum pedal.

(3) In August 2001, during an early Linkin Park tour—they were part of Ozzfest and playing Boston—Chester was bitten by a poisonous recluse spider at the band’s hotel. His reaction was so bad that he got a fever and endured delusions during a week-long hospital stay. A couple of shows had to be cancelled

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Jack White is a passionate sort of guy and when he was younger, he sometimes let those passions get the better of him.

In 2001, he produced the debut album for a fellow Detroit band called The Von Bondies. Things went well until some kind of beef between Jack and Von Bondies singer Jason Stollsteimer. On December 13, 2003, they got into a scrap which saw Stollsteimer sent to the hospital with a severe beating, claiming that he’d been sucker punched.

Jack was charged with misdemeanour aggravated assault, fined $750, and ordered to take anger management classes. Meanwhile, Jason was unable to do promotion for the latest Von Bondies album, and he maintains this fight killed the band’s momentum.

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers number one quarterback Zach Collaros is back in the city after all the hustle and bustle of CFL free agency last week.

Collaros took part in an autograph signing on Tuesday after speaking with the media for the first time since the end of season locker room cleanout back in the fall.

Collaros said it’s been a good off-season so far and is already looking forward to a new campaign. He’s been working on the new playbook with new offensive coordinator Tommy Condell and has high expectations for himself after a down year in 2025, but added they can’t continue to dwell on their struggles from last season.

He called their free agent signings “awesome” and is a big fan of the additions general manager Kyle Walters made on offence with the signings of offensive lineman Jarell Broxton and receivers Tim White and Tommy Nield.

Collaros said the players are all excited over the recent free agent moves.

“Yeah, a lot of buzz,” said Collaros. “You lose some guys along the way which makes it tough. You lose teammates but yeah, we all sit back, and like play fantasy GM too, and like, what we would do. So, there’s a lot of agreement on all of these signings. From the players standpoint, a lot of excitement, so, a lot of us were texting during those three-four-day window.”

Collaros is entering the final year of his contract and will be 38 years old by the end of the season. He said there’s a chance this will be his final season, but he’ll approach it like any other.

“Would I like to keep going?” said Collaros. “If I feel healthy and I think I can help the club, then yeah.

“Like I still feel really good. I still really enjoy, like the entire process. I enjoy working out and getting up early and doing it. This off-season has been great, working with Tommy and putting stuff together for the training camp and the season. So, I’ve kinda been reinvigorated in that way, just having my hand in it a little bit more than I have in the last five years. So, it’s been a lot of fun. I’m really excited for the year.”

While Collaros lost two of his favourite targets to free agency in Keric Wheatfall and Jerreth Sterns, he has two new weapons in White and Nield with White coming off a thousand-yard season in Hamilton.

“He’s fast,” said Collaros. “I love his experience. He’s played this game, I think it’s four or five years in a row with a thousand yards, his durability.

“The people that I talked to that know of Tim and that have been around him, have all echoed the same sentiment about him. Like, he’s a great teammate. He cares a great deal, so he’s gonna fit in well.”

Collaros is already a little familiar with Nield after working out with him during a previous off-season.

“I threw with Tommy, I think two or three years ago,” he said. “It was like my first day throwing in the off-season and he was running. I pull Shamawd (Chambers) aside and go who is that? Like, what college does he go to? He’s like that’s Tommy Nield you idiot. I was like oh s–t. Cause you don’t see anybody without the helmet on and I don’t really watch on TV. He really impressed me and I kinda developed a relationship with him there.”

Collaros hopes the offence can hit the ground running when training camp begins on May 10.

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The Pattullo Bridge has officially closed after shutting the link between New Westminster and Surrey to vehicle traffic.

Cyclists and pedestrians were invited to enjoy a car-free experience over the weekend, but it was cut a few hours short when people started to climb the arch of the bridge.

“There was a lineup forming, probably 20 people deep of people taking turns climbing up maybe 10 or 15 feet,” witness Derek Williams told Global News.

“I think 15 feet is the highest I saw somebody do it.”

Surrey police officers were called in around 5 p.m.

“Police arrived and assisted security in dispersing the crowd that had queued up,” Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton with the Surrey Police Service told Global News.

“There were two people that were partway up the arch that police were able to successfully negotiate down before they got hurt.”

Shortly after, the B.C. government decided to close the bridge, citing poor weather conditions, but the bridge was initially set to close on Tuesday morning.

However, police had to be called a second time on Monday, around 7 p.m., after security reported a group pushing through the barricades.

“That’s when, unfortunately, these people got quite anti-police and verbally abusive with us and the security on scene,” Houghton said.

“Thankfully, no one had to be arrested and everyone dispersed and cooler heads prevailed.”

The new bridge was given a First Nations name from the Kwantlen First Nation and Musqueam Indian Band: stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge.

All four lanes are now open to traffic.

 

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A woman whose partner pleaded guilty to interfering with her remains in Maple Ridge following her mysterious death last year, was the spouse of a notorious B.C. gangster, Global News has learned.

Estate documents reveal Jessica Cunningham, the woman whose body was found in a deep freezer in her Maple Ridge home last summer, was married to a former Red Scorpion gangster, convicted in the Surrey Six murders – the deadliest gang shooting in B.C.’s history.

A B.C. Supreme Court filing related to the estate of 43-year-old Cunnigham identifies her spouse as Cody Rae Haevischer.

In 2014, Haevischer was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder for the October 2007 killings in suite 1505 of Balmoral Tower, infamously dubbed the Surrey Six.

Crown’s theory was that the murders were payback for an unpaid debt between rival gangs.

Two innocent victims, Ed Schellenberg and 22-year-old Christopher Mohan, were shot in the head.

Haevischer applied for a stay of proceedings to overturn his conviction, alleging abuse of process.

He and another Red Scorpion, who was also convicted in the Surrey Six, but has since died, Matthew Johnston, claimed systemic police misconduct and the inhumane conditions of confinement they experienced in custody, prejudiced their rights to a fair trial and undermined the integrity of the justice system.

In 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada determined that misconduct by members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team during the investigation warranted a new evidentiary hearing.

The BC Prosecution Service says Haevischer’s application for a judicial stay has been ongoing for several months, with financial submissions to be scheduled for this spring.

Cunningham, Haevischer’s spouse, was last seen in June 2025—according to RCMP.

Forty-eight-year-old Mylie Barron has pleaded guilty to interfering with her remains between late May and August of last year.

At a sentencing hearing earlier this month, the court heard Barron and Cunningham were in an intimate partner relationship and had lived in the upper unit of a home on Gillis Place in Maple Ridge since early 2024.

According to an agreed statement of facts, the couple frequently used illicit drugs, including cocaine and meth.

On July 25, the landlord called police for a wellness check as Cunningham hadn’t been heard from for over a month.

Crown says police attended and Barron indicated Cunningham was in Victoria.

In late August, police searched the home with Barron’s consent and found a human arm in a garbage bag in a standalone deep freezer.

Barron was arrested.

Police returned with a warrant and the body in the freezer was confirmed to be Cunningham’s.

How she died is the subject of an ongoing investigation.

In successfully arguing for a sealing order on pre-sentence reports, defence counsel told the court a “certain individual” described as “notorious” was married to Cunningham.

Barron’s lawyer says his client has been in separate confinement while in custody and his safety concerns are valid.

Barron remains in custody and is expected to be sentenced on March 5 in Port Coquitlam.

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Natalie Spooner isn’t just at the Milan Cortina Olympics to bring home another medal.

The Toronto hockey player is determined to make the most of her time at the Olympic Village — one bite at a time.

When she’s not on the ice, the 35-year-old has made it her mission to taste-test her way through the Games and share reviews on social media of some of the things she eats, ranging from chocolate pudding to pizza topped with potatoes.

“Why is there potato on a pizza? I guess in Canada we say, ‘Does pineapple belong on pizza?'” Spooner says in one post, smiling as she takes a bite. “Here, it’s, ‘Does potato belong on pizza?'”

Last week, the International Olympic Committee said in a press release that more than 10,800 meals are served daily across the three Olympic sites in Milan, Cortina and Predazzo. In the Milan village alone, the kitchens serve around 3,000 eggs and 450 kilograms of pasta, the IOC said.

The food in the Olympic Village has gone viral in more ways than one. The IOC announced in October that it had created a special pasta noodle shaped like the five Olympic rings.

The limited-edition dish was later served to the athletes in the village, resulting in a flood of social media comments from fans calling for the pasta to be available for the public to buy.

But for Spooner, a self-proclaimed “chocolate monster,” the sweet treats are definitely the highlight of the Olympic Village cuisine.

“This might be the best thing yet that I’ve found,” Spooner says in one video where she tries an Italian chocolate spread with a croissant. “That’s really good.”

Another post shows Spooner trying a chocolate lava cake, something she says is “famous” around the village.

“This is what I’ve been waiting for,” she says with a smile. “It’s gooey, it’s chocolatey … this is like hitting the spot right now.”

But not every dessert gets a gold medal — in one video, Spooner tries a chocolate soufflé, which she rates three out of 10.

“I would say this is a hockey puck,” Spooner laughs.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 17, 2026.

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After Saskatchewan got a taste of spring, the snow is back and it looks like it’s here to stay.

The timeline was delayed but the storm finally rolled into Saskatoon Tuesday afternoon, picking up for cars driving home from work.

Saskatoon is expected to get 15-25 cm of snow, while other parts of the province may get up to 25-30 cm with a second wave expected to stick around until Wednesday evening.

People are being urged to stay off the roads with the snow and wind combining to make for nearly whiteout conditions both inside and out of the city.

The RCMP is warning drivers that roadways could quickly deteriorate, particularly in the central and southern areas of the province.

If you do need to go out, you are being warned to check the highway hotline and prepare yourself for the conditions.

“You can expect near-zero visibility at times. That’s going to make for some pretty treacherous travel conditions. If you can stay off the roads during this time and delay travel plans, I would urge you to do so,” said Danielle Desjardins a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

“If (you) do need to get on the roads, I would say drive with extreme caution. Give yourself enough time.”

The city of Saskatoon is also gearing up for the snowfall, with crews on the streets during the storm and sanding trucks managing icy sections.

Watch above for more on how Saskatchewan was hit hard with a February snowstorm.

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The government of Saskatchewan is extending additional support to programming addressing gender-based violence.

The $1.46 million investment will help 10 organizations and programs across the province and is the latest in funding through the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence program.

“These actions reflect our work to prevent violence before it happens, support survivors, and strengthen communities,” said Alana Ross, Saskatchewan’s status of women minister, at a news conference announcing the funding Tuesday.

The province says the funding will support a range of programs over the next two years — from existing services, such as transition houses and second-stage shelters, to new, innovative ones supporting children and Indigenous communities.

The new funding is also to support group therapy camps for men who have caused harm in intimate partner relationships. These camps are operated by the Rapport Clinical Consulting Group and the Buffalo Narrows Friendship Centre.

“If we want to interrupt the cycle of abuse, we need programming for people who’ve used violence to build skills and change their behaviour,” said Crystal Giesbrecht, director of research at the  Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan (PATHS).

PATHS is receiving $280,000 through the latest funding announcement to support children who have experienced trauma and improve long-term educational outcomes, according to the province. The funding will also be used to provide free online workplace domestic violence training sessions to Saskatchewan businesses.

The Saskatchewan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will receive $250,000 to support pets caught in the middle of domestic abuse.

“Research shows that if there is violence in a home where a human is at risk and there are animals in the household, the animals are likely at risk as well and vice versa,” said John Hourie, executive director of SPCA.

The funding will target the SPCA’s animal safekeeping program, said Hourie, which provides pets with safe, temporary spaces as owners find new homes.

Offering spaces for animals is important as not all domestic violence shelters accept pets, which can often serve as a barrier for those looking to leave situations involving gender-based violence, said Hourie.

“There’s a risk there that their animal may continue being abused. But sometimes one of the big challenges, too, is that there’s just no place to go when you have a pet,” he said.

In 2024, Saskatchewan had the highest rates of police-reported intimate partner violence among all Canadian provinces — reporting 714 incidents per 100,000 people, according to Statistics Canada.

Despite the province being in its fourth year of the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence program, trends in domestic violence data remain steady.

When asked by reporters about this Tuesday, Giesbrecht explained there is often a lag in data.

“When we look at data that comes from Statistics Canada, we’re often looking at data from two years past. So it takes some time for us to see if there are changes, and then also to understand whether those are normal fluctuations or if we’re seeing rates go down,” said Giesbrecht.

Ross said the province does not have updated gender-based violence statistics, but that it has increased its support over the past four years since it has been involved in the program.

The National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence is a 10-year plan intended to provide a framework to end gender-based violence, while supporting victims and their families.

“We’re able to support more women, families, and victims of gender-based violence throughout the province in different avenues,” said Ross.

Other recipients of the latest round of funding include Anchor and Thread Community Services Inc. for counselling and administrative salaries, Regina Transition House for shelter outreach, United Way of Regina for an increased use of the 211 service and Coalition of Regional Sexual Assault Centres Inc. to expand trauma-informed training to police for sexual assault investigations.

Funding will also go towards Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan (SASS) to train criminal justice professionals in trauma- and violence-informed cultural safety practices and Muskoday First Nation to support culturally-grounded healing initiatives for women, girls and Two-Spirit+ individuals affected by intimate partner violence, according to the government.

Recipients of the funding are expected to perform check-ins with the province on its programming throughout the year.

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