As of September 25, 2026, U2 has been around for 50 years. Five decades ago, in 1976, a bunch of kids showed up in the kitchen at Larry Mullen Jr.’s place. Fourteen-year-old Larry had posted a note on the hallway bulletin board at Mount Temple Comprehensive School on Malahide Road in Dublin.

Four of the kids from that afternoon in the kitchen are still in the band. There’s been only one lineup change. On March 4, 1978, Dik Evans left the group, back when it was still known as “Feedback” and then “The Hype.” Other than that, U2 has always been Larry, Bono, the Edge, and Adam Clayton.

There are groups whose names have survived longer. The Blind Boys of Alabama have a history that dates back to 1939. The Oak Ridge Boys were formed in 1947. Golden Earring first got together in 1961.

But how many groups have the same members after 50 years? Right now, the answer is none. Until recently, ZZ Top was the champion, with the same three guys since 1969, but when Dusty Hill died in 2021, that streak ended at 52 years.

To put U2’s longevity into perspective, they were formed just after Montreal hosted the Summer Olympics. They began before the first Star Wars movie came out. Heck, U2 is older than disco. And they’re still making albums, and they’re still touring.
Obviously, we gotta do something to mark this milestone. But how?

There have been documentaries and books and movies and concert films and box sets. Their story has been told a million times. So what can we do that’s different, yet fun and informative? I thought long and hard about what to do.

And here’s what I came up with. This is part one of a show I’m calling “50 Things About U2 at 50.”

Hang on. This is gonna get dense.

Songs heard on this show:

• U2, Tonight
• Radiators from Space, Television Screen
• U2, Stories for Boys
• U2, 11 O’clock Tic Toc
• U2, I Will Follow
• U2, Gloria
• U2, Pride (In the Name of Love), 2023 version/U2
• U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live)
• U2, Get Out Your Own Way

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

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Few species on this planet can make a noise like 10,000 screaming teenage girls. That’s a lot of lung power, but it can come at a serious health cost–and I don’t mean one’s hearing.

In 2017, The Journal of Emergency Medicine entitled “Screaming your Lungs Out! A Case of Boy Band-Induced Pneumothorax, Pneumomediastinum, and Pneumoretropharyngeum.” It warns of the effects of prolonged screaming by young women at boy band concerts.

Basically, they can scream and sing so long and so hard that lungs may spontaneously collapse, requiring immediate medical treatment. I quote: “Spontaneous pneumothorax has been linked with multiple activities leading to acute increases in transpulmonary pressure (e.g., weightlifting, diving, and military flying). This particular case suggests that forceful screaming during pop concerts should be added to that list.”

Be careful out there, kids.

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Murderers have always lurked among us. Victims are beaten to death. They stab people. They shoot people.

Going through the cases, we see that’s just the start. We have the man who stomped his wife to death in a fit of rage over perceived infidelity, someone who beat his mother to death with a hammer, and another who tried to run over the victim with a car.

There’s a particularly gruesome case of a man accused of killing his underage girlfriend, cutting her into pieces, and then leaving the corpse to rot in the trunk of a car.

And when it’s too much trouble or too risky to carry out the dirty work themselves, there’s always the option of hiring a hitman.

What do all these cases have in common? They all involve musicians doing the deed, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.

This is Episode 77 of Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. This time, all our stories are about musicians who murder, or who have at least tried to.

In addition to the podcasts, you can hear Uncharted on these Corus radio stations (all times local):

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And don’t forget about my current national speaking tour that will feature a live Uncharted podcast presentation. Get your tickets here.

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Sitting just 12.4 light-years away is an Earth-like planet with the fancy name GJ273b which orbits a star called Loyton’s Star, an otherwise non-descript red dwarf. GJ 273b is classified as a “Super Earth,” but given that it’s in the Goldilocks zone, there’s a chance that it could sustain life as we know it.

For three days in October 2017, a team of musicians led by the Sónar music festival transmitted eighteen musical pieces, each 10 seconds long, towards GJ 273b in the hope of luring aliens into a response. The 180-second message was repeated nine times.  Another fifteen musical messages were sent the following April.

First, let’s hope they’re listening. Second, let’s hope they like music. And third, let’s hope they don’t decide to invade. If they do, the answer that returns in 24 years might be “Message received. We’ll be there to invade in about 1400 years.” Will they be Grays, Reptilians or insectoids? Place your bets.

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A new Vancouver city councillor and former legal advocate for tenants says the discovery that landlords have been fined $90,000 after they subdivided a single-family home into a rooming house operation is sad — but not too surprising.

“The practices that I saw described in this decision are regrettably practices that I have seen elsewhere over the course of my time representing tenants, and then more recently from tenants in the Vancouver Tenants Union who have been organizing in buildings,” Stephanie Smith told Global News.

She said the scale of this house is extreme, but there are situations like this across Vancouver.

An inspection of the home in July 2025 found the house near Commercial Drive had been subdivided into 21 rooms with at least 17 tenants, plus multiple bathrooms and plumbing fixtures were added without permits.

That August, the City of Vancouver issued an order to vacate.

“The practice (of) subdividing without permits, making unpermitted renovations, making un-permited changes to electrical and plumbing, egress issues, like all of these life safety issues — these are things that I’ve seen in multiple buildings across the city over decades,” Smith added.

Following an investigation, the Residential Tenancy Branch found the landlords did not maintain the rental property in compliance with health, safety and housing standards required by law and failed to complete urgent plumbing and electrical repairs.

They were ordered to pay $85,000 for the first violation and a $5,000 penalty for the second.

The decision showed, however, that the rental home had to the capacity to generate $11,000 a month in revenue for the landlords.

Smith said the $90,000 fine is a large one, but only represents about eight months of income for the property that’s now listed for sale for $1.4 million.

“I have noted and tenant advocates have noted, that the penalties that can be assigned by the RTB (Residential Tenancy Branch) Compliance and Enforcement Unit are not proportional to the harms that can be done to tenants,” Smith said.

“And when you have a larger landlord who may be breaching bylaws or the Residential Tenancy Act in multiple properties, that can amount to a cost of doing business.”

Simon Fraser University’s city program director, Andy Yan, told Global News the dividing of homes in Vancouver reminds him of Hong Kong’s coffin apartments or home — which are essentially wooden boxes with a single bed.

“I think that this is a scene that actually is something out of Vancouver’s past from the 1800s, when they used to just stack people, new and young Canadians, into these places,” Yan said.

Yan added this issue highlights the need for local governments to ensure that landlords are not allowed to do these practices and then pay fines as the cost of doing business.

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A new mental health and addictions hospital and 2,000 housing units will be built in Winnipeg replicating a housing project based in Toronto that saw a decrease in ER visits and millions of savings.

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to end homelessness across the country within a decade, at a news conference at Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn on Friday. Winnipeg is set to receive $1 billion to build a Winnipeg Centre for Mental Health and Addictions and transitional homes, according to the 2026 federal budget.

The location for the housing and hospital has not been determined.

Dunn House, the housing project in Toronto that Winnipeg will , reported a 52 per cent reduction in emergency room visits and more than $2 million of savings, according to the budget.

“There is a huge cost to the status quo. The status quo is not working,” said Kinew. “We’re gonna get it done right, and we’re gonna get it done quick — and the housing similarly for us to stand up 2,000 housing units and get people settled in by 2031 means we’re going to be looking everywhere.”

The housing units will have rooms, medical offices, and shared spaces like the kitchen and community room, said Doug Rollins, the City of Toronto’s executive director housing secretariat.

Watch the video above for the full story.

 

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Calgarians continue to keep water consumption within the city’s target range as crews move ahead with work to connect the upgraded Bearspaw South Feeder Main.

Calgary and neighbouring communities have now recorded five consecutive days in the “green zone” with water use remaining below the city’s target of 500 million litres a day.

Water consumption was 482 million litres Friday, 483 million litres Saturday and 487 million litres Sunday.

The city says keeping demand below 500 million litres is important while the new feeder main is being connected, because there’s limits on how much water can be moved through the system during construction.

Lower consumption also ensures enough water is available for essential services and firefighting.

Crews spent the weekend preparing three sites along the feeder-main route, following work last week to safely shut down and drain the existing Bearspaw South Feeder Main.

The city said Monday that draining was on track to be completed that day and excavation had begun at some of the sites where the new pipe will be connected to the water system.

Starting Thursday, crews are expected to work around the clock at the 89th Street N.W. site to connect the new feeder main. That work is expected to take about two weeks. Excavation was also scheduled to begin Monday along Parkdale Boulevard as part of repairs to sections of a smaller feeder main.

The city is warning residents to expect traffic impacts and pathway detours around construction areas and to stay away from work sites where possible.

Water restrictions are expected to remain in place for at least another three-and-a-half weeks while the connection work is completed.

Michael Thompson, Calgary’s water chief operating officer, said the city will bring the original feeder main back online once the work is finished, allowing restrictions to be lifted while crews commission the new pipe.

“What will happen once we’re done this work is we will turn on the original Bearspaw South Feeder Main again, we’ll pull ourselves out of restrictions,” Thompson said.

“Use that pipe to flow water while we commission the new pipe, and then mid-December we’ll transition over to that new pipe.”

The Bearspaw Water Treatment Plant remains in operation during the restrictions, supplying about 20 per cent of Calgary’s daily water needs, while the Glenmore Water Treatment Plant handles the remaining 80 per cent.

While the city’s immediate focus is completing the feeder-main twinning project, Thompson said planning is already underway for the next stage.

The city is in the design phase for another section of pipe that would run from the Bearspaw Water Treatment Plant to the tie-in point in Bowness.

The city’s next construction update is expected Thursday, Nov. 12.

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RCMP are briefly shutting down a section of highway north of Edmonton on Monday night as officers carry out further investigations into an overnight crash that killed a Good Samaritan last month.

The crash on Highway 28 near Range Road 231. happened around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct.12.

RCMP from Redwater and Morinville, along with Morinville firefighters, responded to the four-vehicle collision on the highway in Sturgeon County.

One vehicle stopped to check on the a driver that police said had abandoned their vehicle in the driving lane.

A second vehicle also stopped at the scene, after which a fourth vehicle collided with the three stopped on the road.

One of the Good Samaritans who pulled over to see if everyone was ok, a 66-year-old woman, was hit and died on scene.

A second person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

As investigators continue to investigate the events leading up to the four-vehicle collision, Mounties will be shutting down a five-kilometre stretch of road.

Redwater RCMP said it will be detouring Highway 28 traffic at Township Road 572 in the south, Highway 651 to the north, and preventing drivers on Range Road 231 from going onto the highway.

The detours will begin at 8 p.m. Monday, and police said it shouldn’t last for more than an hour.  The public is asked to avoid travel in the area and find an alternate route.

Anyone who witnessed the collision back in October or has dashcam footage is asked to contact the Redwater RCMP detachment at 780-942-3607.

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TORONTO – The Toronto Raptors will be without three key players tonight as they host the Memphis Grizzlies.

All-star Scottie Barnes (left groin strain), Immanuel Quickley (right hamstring, tightness/soreness) and Collin Murray-Boyles (illness) were all unavailable to play for Toronto (5-4).

Barnes and Quickley also didn’t play on Friday in the Raptors’ 121-107 win over the Bucks in Milwaukee.

Murray-Boyles was listed as questionable several hours before opening tip-off.

Star forward Kawhi Leonard (left knee, injury management) and reserve centre Nate Bittle (right foot, avulsion fracture) were already ruled out.

Barnes and Quickley are regular starters for Toronto and Murray-Boyles is usually one of the first players off the bench for the Raptors.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 9, 2026.

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The end of the 2026 season could mark the end of an era for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

After a 33-23 loss to the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL’s East Division final on Saturday, changes are inevitable and there could be big ones for Winnipeg’s offence.

Quarterback Zach Collaros got teary when speaking about what could come next at the team’s end-of-season availabilities on Sunday.

“I’ve thought about my future more and more as I’ve gotten older, obviously,” said the 38-year-old American. “I’ve always kind of had it in the back of my head.”

Collaros has played seven seasons with the Blue Bombers and been in the CFL for 14.

He said he probably won’t make a decision about whether or not he’s ready to retire until January.

“A career’s a career … I don’t really care about the player aspect of it,” he said. “But just being able to be part of this organization, being around the people that I’ve been able to be around, I’ll never forget it. It’s been just such an amazing journey and an amazing blessing to be in this community.”

Collaros revealed on Sunday that talks on a contract extension began early in the season, but were derailed when he hurt his neck in a road win against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on July 5. He said there have not been any discussions since.

“I would have thought I was going to play another couple of years, so everything changes day-to-day and things happen and we’ll see,” he said.

The No. 1 QB passed for 2,989 yards with 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions over the regular season.

He missed six games with injuries, then sat out the East Division semifinal win over the Toronto Argonauts after picking up a rib injury on Oct. 23 and was a game-time decision for the final against the Alouettes.

Collaros has been the face of the franchise since joining the Bombers in a trade with Toronto in October 2019. He guided Winnipeg to five consecutive Grey Cup games, capturing the championship in 2019 and 2021, then losing the next three.

The team has been lucky and privileged to have the quarterback as their leader, said running back Brady Oliveira.

“I came here in 2019, direct as a rookie playing for my hometown, literally a dream come true,” Oliveira said. “This guy gets traded here and the drought is ended. We win a Grey Cup in 2019 and he’s a massive part of it.

“And from then on there, the guy’s won us so many football games. Like, the guy is Bomber royalty forever.”

But Winnipeg has regressed since those championship appearances, going 10-8 last year and losing the East semifinal to Montreal as the crossover team.

This year ended with a 9-9 record and another crossover journey.

Collaros isn’t the Winnpeg’s only veteran considering retirement.

Offensive linemen Stanley Bryant and Patrick Neufeld don’t have contracts for next season and are thinking about hanging up their helmets.

“The body always plays a part,” said Bryant, who’s been named the league’s top offensive lineman four times in his 16-year career.

“Mentally, I’m fine, but the body is a key factor.”

Neufeld has played 13 of his 15 CFL seasons with the Bombers and is the team’s longest-tenured player.

As he evaluates his options, he’s thinking of his three kids, including twins born early this summer and his three-year-old daughter.

“Just time, man. The toll this game takes on your body,” Neufeld said when asked what’s changed this year. “I’m not getting any younger and things hurt more.

“With having three young kids, it changes things a lot. I just want to make sure I do what’s best for them.”

If some of the team’s veterans — including Collaros, Bryant and Neufeld — do opt for retirement, Oliveira is still optimistic about the future.

“Maybe an end of an era for maybe a little bit of my career, because they’ve been a huge part of it,” he said. “But now I just have a new fresh start for my career.

“I’ll just (think), ‘Let’s find a way to do it again.’ I believe in this organization, I trust this organization.”

Changes don’t have to be massive, he added.

“It’s not going to be a thing where it’s a rebuild per se. Like, it can’t be,” Oliveira said. “We still have great guys in this locker room that are really good football players and really good human beings that can win games for us, so I think we’ll be just fine.”

One player who wants to return is defensive end Willie Jefferson.

The 35-year-old American felt he had a good season this year and wants to come back to Winnipeg for an eighth campaign with the Bombers — and 13th in the CFL.

“I hope other guys don’t rush into make a decision (on their futures),” Jefferson said. “Enjoy the offseason, enjoy this next couple of days we have together with the 2026 Bomber team. And whatever 2027 holds, I hope the best for everybody.”

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