There are many godfathers in music. The Godfather of Rock? Well, there’s the King, Elvis Presley, but Chuck Berry is probably a more accurate choice…the Godfather of Funk and Soul? James Brown. The godfathers of hip-hop? DJ Kool Herc was the O.G. Run-D.M.C. should be in there, too, along with Afrika Bambaataa, Spoonie Gee, and Fab 5 Freddy. How about the Godfather of Punk? Iggy Pop, no question. But what about the Fathers of Punk? I’m going to say that title belongs to Ramones, period, full stop, end of discussion. Wait: back up. In the early 1800s, an American pioneer named John Chapman travelled from Massachusetts, collecting seeds from Pennsylvania cider presses, and for the rest of his life, he planted thousands of apple trees through what is now Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Chapman was given the nickname “Johnny Appleseed” because wherever he went, apple trees sprouted in his wake. In the mid-1970s, the Ramones—four middle-class kids from Forest Hills in Queens—began to have the same effect with a new style of rock and roll known as “punk.” Whenever they played a town on one of their endless tours, new bands would inevitably start popping up just a few days later. What began as a cartoonish attempt at making goofy bubblegum pop music—think of what The Beach Boys might sound like if they sniffed glue and took a lot of meth—the Ramones stumbled on something profound and eternal. It was all a big, happy, dumb accident. The Ramones had no idea they were about to change the world of music. They were just four regular guys who wanted to rock in the most basic way. They certainly accomplished that—but they also reminded everyone that when it comes to the power and joy of rock, sometimes “less” is “more.” They gave rock ’n’ roll a much-needed kick in the ass, and it took a long time for them to be recognized for what they gave us. They got punk going on both sides of the Atlantic. The guys who would eventually become The Clash worshipped them. The Sex Pistols took cues from them. They’d go on to be an influence on hardcore, metal, thrash, grunge, and every flavour of guitar-based alt-rock. Fans include Nirvana and Foo Fighters, Metallica, Soundgarden, Pixies, Faith No More, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, The Strokes, The Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses, Motörhead, Green Day, Blink-182, Rancid, Fall Out Boy, and hundreds—probably thousands—of others. This (2026) is an important year in Ramones history. It’s the 25th anniversary of Joey Ramone’s death, the first member of the band to leave us. It’s the 30th anniversary of the last Ramones show, and it’s the 50th anniversary of the release of their debut album. Let’s cover all of that with this triple tribute to one of the greatest and most important bands in the history of rock. Songs heard on this show (all by the Ramones except the last one):

• • Sheena is a Punk Rocker

• • Judy is a Punk (demo)

• • Beat on the Brat

• • Blitzkrieg Bop

• • Teenage Lobotomy

• • I Wanna Be Sedated

• • Do You Remember Rock’n’Roll Radio?

• • Chinese Rocks

• • Anyway You Want It

• • U2, The Miracle of Joey Ramone

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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Our lesson on radio frequencies continues. We’ve looked at FM, AM, longwave, and shortwave. What else is there?

Well, there’s DAB, which stands for Digital Audio Broadcasting. It’s a standard used in Europe, Asia, and Australia that, in some countries like Norway, has replaced AM and FM altogether. On the radio spectrum, it gets 175.928 to 239.200 MHz, which puts it slightly above standard FM radio.

We will never see DAB radio in North America. We tried to implement it in the early 2000s, but there was little appetite for the kind of investment it required. Instead, we got HD-Radio, a digital signal which basically hitchhikes on what’s called the “sidebands” of standard AM and FM frequencies. It hasn’t really taken off, but chances are you have HD-Radio in your car.

One more radio story next time.

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We’ve been looking at the various types of frequencies that we use to listen to the radio, covering both standard FM and AM. But there’s more to AM radio than what you can get in your car.

What we listen to in North America is also called “medium wave,” because our AM is right in the middle of the spectrum allocated to this kind of broadcasting. Below standard AM is longwave, which occupies the frequencies between 148.5 and 283.5 kHz. What’s longwave used for?

Parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia use longwave in conjunction with regular AM. Then we have shortwave, which operates from somewhere between 2.3 and beyond 30 MHz. It’s used for ultra-long-distance international broadcasting. It’s been around since the early 20^th century.

More next time,

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Staging a music festival is an extremely risky thing. Everything works on a knife’s edge. And while a promoter can make an insane amount of money from a festival, everything has to go just right. But if things start to go wrong at any point, the failures can cascade into a disaster, financial and otherwise… The basic logistics are daunting…you have to bring in a bunch of artists from all over the world, take care of all their transportation, accommodation, catering, and technical needs. Tens of thousands of people buy tickets to stand out in a field for one, two, three, or even four days at the mercy of the weather… Think about it…you need staff, security, medical personnel, sanitary facilities, food suppliers, parking, public transportation, camping, power, permits, and a million other things, all working together… And humans being humans, you can’t trust them…once you get tens of thousands—even hundreds of thousands—of people into a confined open space for an extended period of time and then add in drugs and alcohol, weird and bad things can happen. Some promoters have got it down to a science/ Glastonbury, which began in 1970, sells out within minutes of tickets going on sale. It’s celebrated as the most famous music festival in the world. The UK also has Reading and Leeds, which have involved running two festivals in different cities on the same weekend since 1999… The people behind Coachella and Lollapalooza have been able to consistently stage festivals for decades with only occasional glitches… But then there are the disasters…Woodstock 1994 was an organizational nightmare, complete with bad weather. I know because I was there. It was eclipsed only by Woodstock 1999, which was so bad multiple documentaries were made about it… And let’s not even get started on the disastrous Fyre Festival, a giant ripoff and boondoggle that saw people sent to jail… This is Episode 64 of Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.” These are the stories of two Canadian music festivals that crashed and burned. They’re both largely forgotten, too—probably for the best… This is The Spectacular Failures of the Strawberry Fields and Edenfest Music Festivals. In addition to the podcasts, you can hear Uncharted on these Corus radio stations (all times local):

• • Toronto: AM 640 (4-5am)

• • London: 980 CFPL (4-5am)

• • Vancouver: 730 CKNW (1-2am)

• • Edmonton: 630 CHED (1-2am)

• • Calgary: QR77 (770 AM) (1-2am)

• • Winnipeg: 680 CJOB (1-2am)

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When it comes to listening to the radio, FM is the most popular set of frequencies. That’s what we talked about last time.

In second spot is AM, which stands for “amplitude modulation.” AM is the oldest of all radio spectrums, dating back to the very early 1900s. Depending on where you are in the world, the standard AM band runs from 535 kHz to 1705 kHz. In North America, stations are spaced 10 kHz apart, so allocations are 540, 550, 560, 570, and so on. But it’s different in Europe, Asia, and Africa, where spacing is kHz. Allocations go 531, 540, 549, 558, and so forth.

But there’s even more to AM radio than what we can get on our car radios. More next time.

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Three people self-isolating in Ontario over hantavirus are not being tested, the health minister says, over concerns the screening won’t yield any results.

An Ontario couple who disembarked from the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena are isolating in Grey Bruce, while a third who may have been exposed on a flight is in Peel Region.

Four other Canadians are still on board the MV Hondius cruise ship that has seen reports of multiple cases. This includes three deaths from the outbreak of the rodent-borne Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to be capable of limited transmission between humans.

The ship docked in Tenerife, Spain, last week, and some Canadian passengers wore protective gear as they climbed the stairs of a plane bound for the Saguenay-Bagotville Airport, roughly two hours outside of Quebec City.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Monday the three people associated with the virus in the province continue to do well.

“The couple in Grey Bruce are still self-isolating, they continue to be asymptomatic and obviously the local public health unit is monitoring closely,” she told reporters at an unrelated event.

“We do have a third individual in the Peel Region who is also isolating and being monitored by the local public health unit.”

Pressed on the issue of testing, Jones said she had been informed it may not be the best course of action.

“Initial conversations and feedback, knowledge from Dr. Kieran Moore suggests that testing on asymptomatic may not have the appropriate results,” she said.

“It may not be the best way to monitor.”

Moore previously said there was a national teleconference for public health leaders yesterday to co-ordinate efforts between federal, provincial and territories.

Despite the low risk of the virus spreading widely, he acknowledges that hearing words like “contact tracing” for the first time since the pandemic can be anxiety-provoking.

— With files from The Canadian Press

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More than 100 passengers and crew members fell sick during a norovirus outbreak on the Caribbean Princess cruise ship, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC said that 102 passengers and 13 crew members reported becoming ill during the voyage, which took place from April 28 to May 11.

In response to the norovirus outbreak, Princess Cruises and the crew aboard the ship reported increased cleaning and disinfection procedures according to its outbreak prevention and response plan and isolated ill passengers and crew, the agency said.

The Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), which helps the cruise ship industry prevent and control the introduction and spread of gastrointestinal illnesses on ships, is conducting a field response for an environmental assessment and outbreak investigation to assist the ship in controlling the spread.

Norovirus is highly contagious and thrives in places where people gather in close quarters, making cruise ships susceptible to outbreaks. There have been two norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships so far this year, the CDC reports.

According to the CDC, norovirus can be contracted from an infected person, contaminated food or water or by touching contaminated surfaces. The virus causes inflammation of the stomach or intestines, which leads to stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.

Norovirus illness can be serious, especially for young children and older adults, but it is different from the hantavirus, which recently sickened passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Hantavirus usually spreads by inhalation of contaminated rodent droppings and, in rare cases, can be transmitted from person to person, according to the World Health Organization. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

A total of 3,116 passengers and 1,131 crew members are on the Caribbean Princess cruise ship, the CDC reports. The vessel left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on April 28 and is expected to arrive in Florida on Monday.

“Princess Cruises can confirm that a limited number of individuals reported mild gastrointestinal illness during the April 28 Caribbean Princess voyage from Port Everglades,” Princess Cruises said in a statement on Friday.

“We quickly disinfected every area of the ship and added extra sanitizing throughout the voyage,” the cruise line added.

Global News has reached out to Princess Cruises for further comment, but has not received a response.

The outbreak on the Caribbean Princess comes more than a month after another norovirus outbreak was reported on the cruise line’s Star Princess ship.

In March, the CDC reported that 141 passengers and 52 crew members reported becoming ill with norovirus on the Star Princess cruise ship. The ship left Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and made stops in the Caribbean, Honduras, Belize and the Mexican Riviera.

Last April, 240 people had fallen sick on the Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 following a norovirus outbreak.

The CDC said in an outbreak report that 224 of the ship’s 2,538 passengers had fallen ill from the virus, as well as an additional 17 staff members.

The vessel departed Southampton in the U.K. on March 8, 2025, for a nearly month-long cruise to New York and then through the Caribbean, making various stops along the island chain. It was due back in Southampton on April 6, 2025.

According to the CDC, passengers experienced vomiting and diarrhea during the outbreak. The health agency said Cunard had stepped up its cleaning and disinfection protocols, and that sick passengers and crew were being quarantined.

— with files from Global News

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Only days after it began its season, the Edmonton Queen Riverboat became stuck in the North Saskatchewan River on Sunday during a Mother’s Day cruise.

About 200 people were on board when it got stuck on the south side of the river.

One passenger who spoke with Global News said one of the paddles was making a loud noise as the boat left the dock at about 2 p.m.

When the crew tried to turn the boat around by dropping the anchor and using the current, the craft instead ran into the side of the river, beaching itself.

Edmonton Fire Rescue Services responded to the scene and helped in the evacuation of the passengers.

The service said it received a call for assistance at 4:09 p.m. and dispatched crews, including two rescue boats and two land sector crews.

They arrived at about 4:22 p.m. near the intersection of Scona Road and 99B Street.

All passengers and crew were safely evacuated and returned to the riverboat launch by 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. No injuries were reported.

It’s the first weekend for the Edmonton Riverboat season, but it’s not the first time the Edmonton Queen has faced issues.

The boat became stuck in July 2019 and left passengers stranded overnight.

Just before 11:30 p.m. on July 13, 2019, fire crews were called after the riverboat became stuck at Accidental Beach, a sandbar in the river in the Cloverdale area.

Three hundred people on the boat at the time were eventually evacuated.

It took about three years following the incident to get the boat up and running after significant repairs.

Global News has asked Edmonton Fire Rescue Services and Edmonton Riverboat for comment.

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Metro Vancouver airports are preparing for the arrival of world leaders, celebrities and the ultrarich in their private jets as they descend for the FIFA World Cup, which starts next month.

Andy Margolis, the chief operations officer of Vancouver International Airport, is expecting a spike from the 15 to 25 private planes that typically arrive at YVR daily.

But he says the influx is unlikely to compare to the 181 private planes that landed on one day during Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Vancouver in December 2024.

“(The World Cup) is over a number-of-weeks period. I’m not anticipating the numbers on the days either side of the games here to get anywhere near Taylor Swift. So it’s all within our manageable capacity.”

Vancouver is hosting seven matches in June and July.

Private planes arriving at YVR must book their landing time and work with one of three specialty companies that have bases at the airport and advertise perks like luxury hangars and pilot lounges.

Margolis said it’s difficult to know how many private planes will be landing in Vancouver for the World Cup because most don’t book a slot until closer to their planned arrival.

The Boundary Bay Airport in Delta, B.C., accepts landings on a first-come first-serve basis, rather than having to book a specific landing time. It’s also preparing for an increase in private jets for the tournament.

Julia Rieberger, administrative manager for the airport operator Alpha Aviation, said they’re putting together contingency plans for additional plane parking and looking into the option of providing helicopter transfers into Vancouver if visitors want to avoid the 30-kilometre drive to BC Place stadium.

“We’ve received quite a few inquiries. We’ve got charter companies and private operators that are asking about our pricing, and what fuel supply we have, and if we have customs clearance, and just ticking all the boxes of whether or not we are a viable entryway to Vancouver,” she said.

“So we’ve had a lot of inquiries, but in terms of solid booking, that won’t happen likely until 24 to 48 hours out.”

Rieberger said Boundary Bay usually sees a “handful” of private planes a week.

Like Margolis, she’s not expecting a Swift-level influx.

“Taylor Swift was sort of the benchmark for private aircraft coming into Vancouver,” she said.

Nav Canada, which provides the country’s air traffic services, said it has been planning for this summer’s “demand profile” for well over a year, “including for periods of heightened seasonal demand and major international events hosted in Canada.”

“Nav Canada has a proven track record of delivering safe and efficient services during major international events — the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the 2018 G7 Summit in Charlevoix, the 2025 G7 Summit in Kananaskis, and the Canadian Grand Prix in Montréal year after year,” it said in a statement.

“Our planning for this summer draws directly on the protocols and lessons learned from those events, including co-ordination with airlines, airport authorities, and area airports where overflow business and general aviation traffic typically diverts.”

Margolis said a team at the airport has been planning for FIFA and the World Cup games since 2022.

As for soccer fans not in the private-plane tax bracket, Margolis said the number of commercial flights landing in Vancouver is not changing, but planes are expected to be full.

During summer, the airport sees an average of 80,000 passengers a day.

“Our forecasts are between five and 10 per cent increase in passenger numbers on any day. So, as far as our system is concerned, that’s not a huge amount of increase. It’ll just be travellers on those planes will be coming for FIFA-related reasons, rather than other reasons.”

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A California man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner while armed with guns and knives has pleaded not guilty to charges that he attempted to kill President Donald Trump and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer who tried to stop the attack.

Cole Tomas Allen was handcuffed and shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform when he appeared in federal court for his arraignment on Monday.

Allen didn’t speak during the brief hearing. One of his attorneys entered the plea on his behalf.

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