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.

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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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The Manitoba Moose once again have their backs against the wall.

The Grand Rapids Griffins jumped out to a three-goal lead in Game 3 of the Central Division Semifinal and hung on for a 4-2 victory over the Moose on Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Griffins now lead the best-of-five series two games to one and can wrap it up with another victory on Friday.

After trailing by three goals early, the Moose battled back to pull within one and had chances to tie it late in the third period before the Griffins scored the empty-netter to secure the win.

“They keep coming back and coming back and trying,” said Moose head coach Mark Morrison. “It’s been tough for us to put the puck in the back of the net, but I thought we did a much better job today of getting to the net and getting in his eyes. There was two or three great looks that just hit him.

“We get a bounce today and we’re right there, but yeah, they’re not going to quit. They’re not going away.”

The Moose have scored just three goals the entire series and were held to just 17 shots in the Game 3 defeat.

Mason Shaw and Samuel Fagemo had the goals for Manitoba, while Carter Mazur notched a pair including the empty netter for Grand Rapids. Jakub Rychlovský and Erik Gustafsson also found the net.

The Moose already won two elimination games in the first round of the Calder Cup Playoffs and now face the prospect of having to win two more to save their season.

“We’ve been in this spot before where we’ve had to win two games,” said Shaw. “That’s why you use those experiences in the past to lean on. But we haven’t made things easy on ourselves all year. We’ve made things hard all year so why would we not go to five games to try and beat these guys.

“When we do things the right way, we can play with these guys. It’s the best team in the league for a reason. They’re really good but at the same time I have a lot of belief in our group, the guys in the locker room, and our backs are against the wall here, so we’re going to give them everything we got.”

The final shots were 32-17 in favour of Grand Rapids as Michal Postava made 15 stops. Domenic DiVincentiis had 28 saves in his second straight loss.

The Moose were 0-for-2 on the power play and are now just 1-for-7 on the man advantage in the series.

The attendance was 7,581 at the Van Andel Arena.

The Chicago Wolves await the winner of the series. Game 4 is Friday once again in Grand Rapids and Game 5, if necessary, will go on Saturday.

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International leaders from Mexico, Canada and the United States gathered at Hotel Saskatchewan on May 6, 2026, to discuss energy, food and manufacturing security at the NASCO Conference.

Premier Scott Moe took to the stage, noting two main goals: to diversify export markets and deepen North American ties.

He shared that regardless of who occupies any office in the nations represented, everyone needs to work together.

“Saskatchewan is today, one of the most export reliant economies in Canada,” Moe said. “We export over 70 per cent of what we produce each and every day in this province. We are very globally connected and over the past 20 years we’ve seen the value of those exports.”

He concluded saying that it’s a challenging time for supply chains, but the connections being reinforced at the conference will help strengthen the North American continent as a whole.

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Two years after having a proclamation day named after him in the City of Vancouver, Guy Felicella says he is returning the honour.

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Felicella, a harm reduction and recovery advocate, said in a social media post that he does not want May 29 to be known as Guy Felicella Day anymore.

He said that Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC council do not understand what it takes to recover from toxic, illicit drugs or the work required to save lives.

“He threw me and every other person in Vancouver with substance use disorder under the bus when he promised to prevent a much-needed Overdose Prevention Site from opening in downtown Vancouver,” Felicella wrote.

“I won’t be used as part of a disingenuous display of fake compassion and understanding by Ken Sim and his ABC councillors.”

This announcement comes after Sim said he opposes the relocation of an overdose prevention site on Helmcken Street in Vancouver’s city centre.

“Vancouver will not support solutions that fail both those who are struggling and the communities around them,” Sim said in a release on Tuesday.

“We have seen the disastrous impact when OPS sites are introduced without the right planning, oversight, and accountability.”

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The Kelowna Curling Club is reeling in the wake of an elaborate break-in and theft that has left it with thousands of dollars in damage.

“It hurts my soul to know that there are people doing this kind of damage,” said Jock Tyre, general manager of the Kelowna Curling Club.

Suspects broke into the Recreation Avenue facility in the downtown’s north end early Monday morning, but it’s the lengths they went to to get in that is most shocking,

“This isn’t just homelessness, this isn’t drug addiction. This is something. This is a real criminal who planned this out,” Tyre told Global News.

The culprits, at least two of them, climbed up onto the roof.

They cut a barbed wire along the way and then a hole in the roof.

“They obviously had a sawzall to cut through the roof, dropping down into the ceiling,” Tyre said.

According to Tyre, the suspects then crawled about 40 or so feet before removing ceiling panels to get inside, where they damaged an ATM in an effort to access cash.

“They ripped the top off which is where all the computer part was and then they cut down the side,” Tyre said.

Part of the break-in was caught on security video, which shows ceiling panels falling to the ground and one of the suspects on top of the ATM.

While in the end they were unable to access the money, they did steal five iPads and hundreds of dollars worth of alcohol, some of which they dropped on the way out.

“I think that at a certain point it was just too much weight for them to carry,” Tyre said. “Because you’re crawling through a four-foot space, through the ceiling, getting through the joists and everything and then hauling it up a two-foot hole up onto the roof.”

Tyre said whoever is responsible knew where they were going and likely checked out the premises in advance.

“Probably someone came in during the craft show or the home show and cased it out,” Tyre said.

The incident is not the first of its kind. In 2024, thieves used a rooftop hatch to break into the building and steal merchandise.

Police are now asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects involved in the latest break-in or come forward with any information to advance the investigation.

Tyre said the facility has motion sensors on all doors and windows and even that wasn’t enough to prevent a break-in.

“We thought we were pretty well covered. But unfortunately, the size of the curling club is 40,000 square feet of roofing up there,” Tyre said. “I don’t know how we can protect from that.”

One step the club has already taken is the permanent removal of on-site ATMs to remove that as a possible incentive for any future break-ins.

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It was a highly emotional scene at the Calgary Muslim Cemetery, just east of Cochrane, on Wednesday afternoon.

Dozens of mourners gathered to pay their respects to Damilola Afolabi and his family, as they laid the 12-year-old boy to rest.

The family invited Global News to attend the funeral.

Damilola’s father, Jabreel Afolabi, was so overcome with grief he crumpled to the ground and was comforted by friends throughout the funeral.

“This is a beautiful young family that came in from Ghana to find a better place for their children,” said family friend Patrick Adda.

“They came in here, they had no one, and all of us here were like angels that came into their lives to see how best we can help them migrate into the best place to live and work.”

Damilola’s mother was too distraught to talk, so his father spoke for the family and recalled their joy of moving to Canada.

“When we board the flight, he said that this is my best ever life… until this untimely death appears and takes my son away from me.”

Sharing memories of his son, Afolabi said, “He loved to make friends, he loved people. No matter what they look like, no matter what they spoke, he wants to be with friends.”

On Sunday, Damilola ended up going to Mahogany Lake. Unfortunately, he couldn’t swim.

Around 7:20 p.m. EMS got a call that “a youth had gone missing in the water.”

Paramedics, along with members of the Calgary Fire Department’s aquatics team, responded and after speaking with witnesses, CFD divers entered the lake, which is over seven metres (23 feet) deep.

The water was not only very cold, but the divers reported that visibility below the surface was also quite limited.

Divers eventually found the child at the bottom of the lake, brought him to the surface and transferred him to the care of EMS.

The child was rushed to hospital, where he later passed away.

A fire department spokesperson said from the time 911 was called until the boy was pulled from the lake, he had been under the frigid waters for 43 minutes.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the family cover the costs of “honoring his memory” and other expenses.

It describes Afolabi as “a humble and respectful soul gone too soon” but whose memories his family and friends “will carry forever.”

“The meaning of Dami (Damilola) is you are bringing the joy and the happiness — that is the meaning of his name,” said his father.

“But today there is no more. I never prayed that I will be the one to bury my son.

“Wherever you are, Dami, God bless and keep you and hold your soul. May your light never dim, whatever you are. As you see us.”

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And now there are eight.

The Montreal Canadiens are the only team from Canada still standing. They were the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup in 1993.

The Buffalo Sabres stand in their way in the second round. The Sabres present an entirely different profile than the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Whereas Tampa was experienced, the Sabres are making their first appearance in 15 years in the playoffs. Whereas Tampa had some of the best forwards in hockey, the Sabres feature depth. Whereas Tampa brought a cup-winning goalie, the Sabres are using someone who didn’t even start the first series against the Boston Bruins in Alex Lyon.

However, the biggest difference was the Canadiens goaltender. Jakub Dobes was outstanding in the first round, but he had a difficult night in Game 1. Dobes allowed four goals in the first nine shots. Perhaps he was mentally fatigued against the Sabres.

Buffalo won the opener 4-2.

Wilde Horses 

It was so much more wide open than the Tampa series right from the opening minutes. Lane Hutson had an entire lane from the blue line to the goal only three minutes into the game. Soon after, it was Philip Danault with a clear look from five feet.

The zone time that Montreal was able to establish had a high quality to it. There were gaps in the defence all over the Buffalo zone. The passes were connecting. The points were open. The slot was open. It portended to be much more high scoring than the Lightning defensive system.

Again, in the first period, on a two-on-one Jake Evans hit the post. The Canadiens had absolutely no puck luck in the opening frame.

That is until the power play went to work, and did it look effective. The first unit was throwing it around. They finally connected when Juraj Slafkovsky forced the issue by going to the net. It led to the pass to a wide-open Nick Suzuki at the other side of the net.

The key was the drive to the net. Owen Power didn’t have a choice when Slafkovsky stopped being static and changed the moment with aggression. At the other side of the net, Suzuki knew exactly what Slafkovsky was going to do. It was a big goal in the final minute.

The Canadiens tried to keep momentum going in the second period. They had a tough 20 minutes with only one good moment, but what a moment for Kirby Dach. He took it to goal and shot, then when he was down and seemingly out, almost behind the net, Dach chipped it over Alex Lyon for 4-2 Buffalo.

The best forward on the Canadiens was Ivan Demidov. He’s figuring it out in the postseason. It’s a great development. As the head coach said, nothing replaces the actual reps for experience. You can’t teach how to handle it, or create a perception of what it takes, until you actually play in the playoffs.

The only thing missing for Demidov is someone at centre that he has chemistry with to turn these sparkling  moments into goals.

Wilde Goats 

The Canadiens allowed two odd-man rushes in the first six minutes of the game. They managed to not get victimized by that in the first series. It was one of the keys to their success. However, early on, it was Lane Hutson falling. That left Noah Dobson to face Zach Benson and Josh Doan.

Dobson didn’t play it well. His job was to take away the pass, but he slid too early. Benson had no trouble sliding it over to Doan for an easy marker. Two minutes later, another two-on-one was allowed, and it was fortunate that an open net was missed.

A bigger problem started to reveal itself as the Sabres built a 3-1 lead. Jakub Dobes, who had been so strong in the first round, looked quite unsettled. On the second goal, he was over-aggressive. He was having a hard time keeping himself still. That led to a loss of balance on the second goal.

On the third goal, Dobes simply missed an easy save with this glove. Anytime a shot goes through the glove, hitting it just a little bit but not being caught, this is a bad goal. Jordan Greenway had one goal the entire season, so that one particularly stung. At the moment the third goal was scored, Dobes was a minus 1.65 in Goals Saved Above Expected.

By the time the second period had ended, the Sabres had four goals. Those four goals came on the first nine shots for Buffalo. The Sabres also hit two posts between the third and fourth goals. From a goalie that got inside the heads of the Lightning, to a goalie with a minus-2.45 GSAE after the fourth goal.

A second weakness that was exposed early is the lack of second line centre on the Canadiens. The Sabres depth meant that every line kept on coming, and there were too many matchups that didn’t favour Montreal. The Canadiens’ second line spends too much time in its own zone. This has been an issue statistically all season long.

Zach Benson and Josh Doan could have a massive series with Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch getting the more difficult matchups. It may be another series that Head Coach Martin St. Louis is forced to move Slafkovsky over to the second line to even out the lineup.

This wouldn’t have to be done if the second line could carry the play territorially better without the Slovak. This is something for management to work on in the off-season. They can’t and won’t wait for Michael Hage to complete his third season at the college level.

For now, there will be suggestions like Alex Newhook, or Oliver Kapanen back in, or Dach, but that’s just a shuffling of the deck chairs. The solution is more talent down the middle. If the huge trade that didn’t get done on deadline day was Robert Thomas, his being a Canadiens player now would have lifted the club massively. They would be the favourites to win the east, if they had Thomas.

Wilde Cards

The Laval Rocket are still alive in their best-of-five East Conference semifinal with the Toronto Marlies. It certainly didn’t look like they would survive after a 6-2 blowout suffered in Game 3, but they came right back to win Game 4 in Toronto.

Goals were scored by Alex Belzile, Laurent Dauphin and two from Samuel Blais in a 4-0 verdict. Kaapo Kahkonen made 18 saves in the shutout.

One sour note is that it appears David Reinbacher is injured again. He had limited minutes in Game 3, then in Game 4, after limited minutes for two periods, he wasn’t even at the bench for the third period. The Rocket have refused to give out any details on the matter.

Game 5 decides it all, and the Rocket will be short-handed on the blue line. They do have the option of bringing in Bryce Pickford from the Western Hockey League. Pickford was just eliminated from the playoffs when his Medicine Hat Tigers fell in six games to the Prince Albert Raiders in the East Conference final. The only issue appears to be injuries again. Pickford was playing through an injury in the playoffs.

It could also be that the organization doesn’t want to bring in Pickford for such a high pressure game as his first.

Game 5 is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday. The winner goes on to face the Cleveland Monsters who dispatched of the Syracuse Crunch in four games.

Brian Wilde, a Montreal-based sports writer, brings you Call of the Wilde on globalnews.ca after each Canadiens game.

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Premier Danielle Smith is criticizing the Opposition NDP for not telling her about a massive privacy leak involving a Alberta separatism website, after the site was demonstrated during a meeting attended by one of her caucus staffers.

In a fiery chamber debate Wednesday, Smith insisted the United Conservative Party caucus staffer didn’t realize a database shown at the virtual meeting three weeks ago involved a privacy breach with the personal information of nearly three million Alberta voters.

That meeting took place April 16, and the NDP has said it reported it to the RCMP the following day.

But the NDP didn’t tell her government, which Smith is claiming put the legislative assembly at risk.

The meeting and the UCP caucus staffer’s attendance were made public by the NDP on Tuesday, and comes after investigations were launched into a website made by a separatist group called The Centurion Project.

The website featured a publicly accessible database that Elections Alberta says it traced back to an official voter list it had supplied to the pro-independence Republican Party of Alberta.

Such lists are only distributed to political parties and elected officials and must not be shared with third parties.

Smith has said she only learned about the breach through media reports last week, but the UCP staffer’s attendance at the April 16 Centurion Project meeting has led NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi to question whether that was true.

Smith said she only learned about the meeting — during which Centurion Project leader David Parker demonstrated how the database worked by searching former premier Jason Kenney’s name and displayed his home address — when the NDP brought it up.

The premier has denied accusations that she knew about the breach sooner.

Smith on Wednesday tried to turn the tables on Nenshi, arguing that it was the NDP’s responsibility to have informed the government, not just notify police when it became aware of the leak after the April 16 meeting.

“Why didn’t he tell the members of this legislature? Why didn’t he tell the government?”

“The member opposite should be ashamed of himself. People are sick of his antics.”

Smith said that the staffer, which the NDP has identified as the UCP caucus’s director of stakeholder relations, Arundeep Sandhu, regularly does research for caucus — but she insisted there was no way he could’ve known he was being shown an official voter list from Elections Alberta.

“That was not disclosed on the call,” she said.

Sandhu did not respond to a request for comment.

Nenshi questioned how it was possible that Sandhu watched as Kenney’s home address was shared and did not become concerned.

Kenney has said he is hiring a lawyer for advice on what to do following the breach.

“It’s just business as usual for this government to dox a former premier and put him at risk,” Nenshi said.

“That means the premier has created an office culture where it’s either OK to be incompetent and not know that’s a problem or to be so deeply unethical and not care.”

Smith responded by saying it was unethical that Nenshi didn’t tell the assembly what he knew sooner.

“Every single person in this chamber had reason to be interested in that information, reason to want to know, and the member kept it secret.”

Nenshi responded: “In the premier’s world, calling the cops is keeping it secret.”

Asked later by reporters why he hadn’t told other members of the assembly sooner, Nenshi pointed to past close ties between the premier and David Parker, The Centurion Project leader.

Parker is best known for organizing a grassroots movement called Take Back Alberta, which helped organize UCP members in casting ballots to take down Kenney in a confidence vote, and galvanize support to help Smith replace him.

Smith also attended Parker’s wedding.

The two had a falling out two years ago, but Nenshi accused the government of being “embedded with the separatists” and was worried they would tip off the separatist group to get ahead of a police investigation.

“As I’ve said many times, if you suspect your neighbour is a thief and you call the cops, you don’t call your neighbour and say the cops are on the way.”

The Centurion Project’s searchable list was taken down last week after Elections Alberta went to court for an injunction.

The group has said it had obtained the data from an unnamed third party and that it would comply with the Elections Alberta investigation.

Parker has said the goal was to recruit and identify as many separatist supporters as possible ahead of an expected fall referendum.

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