In another week or two, things will start to blow up when it comes to fourth quarter releases. Think of this New Music Friday as the calm before the storm.

Singles

1. Cage the Elephant, Dying in Reverse (Big Loud Rock)

CtE has gone slight psychy with this new single that (I assume) will eventually show up on a new album. Before that, though, this song is destined for a video game (EA SPORTS FC™ 27), which set for release on September 25. Lyrically, the song is about frontman Matt Shultz recovery from years spent in a dark space. The band is also going to perform at halftime for the NFL game in Munich on November 15.

 

2. Jesus Jones, Bad Zoo Rescue (Jesus Jones Recordings)

After ending a year-long hiatus a while back, Mike Edwards has reactivated Jesus Jones for both touring and recording. A new album entitled Twilight will be here on September 21, and this is the third advance single. And if you’re counting. this will be the first JJ album in eight years. Want to revisit 1990? Here you.

 

3. Slipknot, Arsenal (Atlantic)

Well, this is a surprise. Slipknot had been pretty cagey when it came to talking about new material, especially since the kerfuffle that say drummer Sid Wilson unsummarily dismissed. This is the first single (with a video directed by The Clown) in three years. Dance, Maggots, Dance!

4. Spiritbox, Mourning (Pale Chord/Rise Records)

Canada’s Spiritbox surprised fans this week with a new single, which is the first new music since their sophomore album. There’s definitely some evolution going on here. I wonder where things are headed?

 

5. The War on Drugs, Who’s That (Secretly Canadian)

Here’s another band that’s been AWAL. The is the first TWoD single in three years. The story is that this track was written by bandleader Adam Granduciel in about ten minutes “somewhere between first coffee and school drop off.” Hey, you can’t control when the songwriting muse hits.

Albums

1. Bloc Party, Anatomy of a Deep Romance (cOnTAGIOUS LTD / Virgin Music Group)

Let’s go back to the middle aughts when a new crop of British indie bands were on the rise. Bloc Party was definitely part of that cohort. This album, their seventh, is meant to be listened as laid out with no skipping. It’s a chronological account of the rise and fall of a relationship that needs to be consumed in order for maximum effect.

2. Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, Not Bad for New Jersey (Heart of Texas Records / Smith Music)

You may know Brian from his time with The Gaslight Anthem, the Springsteen-esque band from New Jersey. This is his fifth solo album features a long list of guest appearances, including Brandon Flowers of The Killers and Phil Collen of Def Leppard. That’ll show you the kind of respect he has amongst his peers.

3. The Proclaimers, You May Offend (Cooking Vinyl)

You mean the “500 Miles” twins? Yes. In fact, this is their 13th album.

 

The Tubs, Hard Life (Merge)

Finally, the third album from this Welsh band. They’re from Cardiff and grew up on the American college rock of the early 1980s (think REM and the like) as well as British folk rock. Fun fact: The group is part of a collective called Gob Nation, which is a bunch of different bands that swap members whenever the need arises.

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I’m sure you’ve heard someone use the phrase “Elvis has left the building” in some kind of humorous or ironic way, or maybe even as some kind of catchphrase. But what does it mean and where did the phrase come from?

Yes, the “Elvis” is Elvis Presley, and the phrase itself dates to December 1956, when Elvis appeared in front of an audience for a radio show called Louisiana Hayride at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport. Elvis did his thing and then left the stage. But the crowd wanted more, and things started getting a little tense. People wouldn’t stop cheering, which made it impossible for the next act to perform.

To calm things down, concert promoter Horace Logan got on the mic and said, “All right, Elvis has left the building. I’ve told you absolutely straight up to this point. You know he has. He has left the building. He left the stage and went out the back with the policemen, and he is now gone from the building.” A portion of that plea is now an evergreen rock’n’roll meme.

How? Because Elvis heard about it and began using the phrase for all his shows.

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A 37-year-old man is facing charges after an alleged assault at Redwood Park in South Surrey on Wednesday.

Local photographer Robin Nuber captured video of the incident, which began just before 5 p.m.

Surrey police say the suspect allegedly drove his Jeep Wrangler into the victim’s Ford pick up truck.

The victim then attempted to run away and the suspect, allegedly armed with a knife, chased him.

The driver who took the video was able to help the victim until officers arrived.

“In that moment, I’m filming, I’m reversing my car and I’m trying to unlock my car and all in that same moment, he opens my door,” Nuber told Global News.

“I probably could have given him another minute to get in, but as you see, I pan up and he’s at the front of my car and I just started reversing and he held on for dear life.”

Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton with the Surrey Police Service when people see the video, they will understand why the suspect is facing so many charges.

“Certainly you can hear in the voice of the individual in the video that there is some significant concern around what that person sees unfolding in front of them,” he said.

“That’s not something you come across every day driving around a park in South Surrey.”

Richard Mark James Evoy is facing charges including assault with a weapon and criminal harassment.

Police believe the suspect and victim know each other.

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Calgary is one of the few major Canadian cities where the supply gap to restore pre-pandemic housing affordability levels has narrowed, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), due to years of record construction.

According to the federal housing agency’s latest supply gap estimate report, Calgary needs between 4,000 and 5,000 additional units annually by 2036 to restore affordability.

“What we’ve seen is years of record housing starts have resulted in a significant narrowing in that gap as builders have stepped up scaling supply,” said CMHC’s lead economist for the Prairies, Taylor Pardy. “It’s actually been cut in half relative to our previous estimate.”

Those figures translate to between 23,000 and 24,000 total new housing starts annually over the next 10 years.

Current trends indicate Calgary is on pace to build around 19,000 total new homes this year, CMHC said.

According to Pardy, the city recorded 27,000 housing starts last year alone as part of three consecutive years of record home construction.

“We’re on track, essentially, this year to maintain well above the 10-year average starts,” Pardy told Global News. “Overall, the market is still looking fairly robust.”

Housing advocates, however, are worried Calgary won’t be able to keep pace with the construction required.

Total housing starts have declined more than 20 per cent, according to CMHC, as projects that began within the last three years reach completion.

CMHC said the slowing construction reflects rising vacancy rates, growing inventories, higher construction costs and “broader economic uncertainty.”

“As a result, we expect supply growth to moderate once the current development pipeline is delivered,” CMHC said in its report.

Alex McColl, a board member with More Neighbours Calgary, told Global News the narrowing supply gap is “a good thing,” but questioned whether the recent repeal of citywide rezoning will have an impact on housing starts moving forward.

“So this council is riding the momentum created by the previous housing strategy, which is good,” he said. “But repeal without replacement reverses the conditions that increase housing supply.”

The policy, which took effect in August 2024 after being approved by the previous city council, changed the city’s base residential zoning to allow for more housing types on a single property, such as duplexes, rowhomes and townhouses, without requiring a public hearing.

The current city council voted to repeal citywide rezoning earlier this year, and the policy change took effect in August.

The move will see 306,774 residential properties across the city redesignated back to their original low-density residential districts.

“Good starts two years ago are now showing good completions today, but we’re also seeing the starts go down,” McColl said. “That worries us that in two years time, we’re going to continue to trend in the wrong direction.”

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas defended the move during a question and answer session with a local Rotary Club chapter on Wednesday.

“I don’t think, with the infrastructure that’s in the ground that it was adequate to be able to take a one-size-fits-all approach,” Farkas said. “But that said, we have to continue to build and we have to continue to build the housing that Calgarians can afford.”

According to a city spokesperson, building permit activity has also shown growth in new communities such as Ricardo Ranch and Alpine Park, and in established communities like Haysboro and Tuxedo Park.

“Altogether, Calgary continues to see strong housing construction which is helping to approach a balance between supply and demand,” the city said in a statement.

However, for lifelong Calgarians like Judy Klassen, the record housing construction can be a concern.

“I don’t like it,” she told Global News. “Look at all the condos they’re putting up . Even in the older areas, they’re building eightplexes on one lot.”

Meanwhile, Calgary city council is getting set to vote on a refined housing strategy with a narrowed scope from 98 recommendations to roughly 10, that shifts its focus to non-market housing.

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A lawyer for Élections Québec told a Montreal courtroom on Thursday that there might be time to send out one piece of English-language voter information by mail, as the elections agency and provincial government faced a court challenge over French-only mailouts.

But Henrick Lavoie also told a Quebec Superior Court judge that it’s too late to send out both an English version of a voting guide and an English notice card to electors before the Oct. 5 vote.

“I submit respectfully that it’s impossible, downright impossible,” he said in a Montreal courtroom.

However, he said it might still be possible to send out a voting reminder card in English if the court issues an order to that effect by Sept. 16. The list of candidates is finalized at 2 p.m. on Sept. 17 and the agency had already planned to print out reminder cards to mail out after that deadline.

He said the additional cards printed in English would cost the province about $6 million.

Élections Québec is being pressed to address the issue after Montreal lawyer Doug Mitchell took it to court, seeking an order that would force the provincial agency to send out voter information in both French and English.

The agency said earlier this month that it would be providing the documents in French only.

Lawyer Doug Mitchell told the court that not giving people the information they need to cast a ballot could hurt their ability to exercise their right to vote.

“The end result of this, if no documents are sent, is that the people wanting to vote will be denied the right to vote because they will not have had the ability to understand and act to advance their interests to exercise one of the most fundamental rights in the world,” he said.

Élections Québec said on Sept. 1 that printed voter cards will be available only in French for the first time in its history, in order to comply with new language legislation.

The provincial elections authority said it must follow legislation adopted in 2022 making French the sole language of communication for public institutions, but said the documents will include a QR code for voters seeking online information in English.

Mitchell noted that Élections Québec sought an exemption to the law in order to be allowed to mail information in both languages, but was denied.

He cited a letter written to the Quebec government by the province’s chief electoral officer that suggested the validity of the election could be challenged if it were forced to apply the law to the letter.

“That the government of Quebec would prefer to take the risk of an election being invalidated or annulled (rather) than provide the documents that the (elections agency) believes are necessary for a fair election … the court should be troubled by that,” Mitchell said.

He said the QR code isn’t an adequate substitute because many people can’t access them, including some seniors and people without cellphones or reliable internet.

Mitchell, acting on behalf of plaintiff Geoffrey Chambers, asked the judge to grant an emergency order to get the elections agency to provide English copies of the provincial election guide, a notice sent to electors, and a reminder card.

Éric Cantin, the lawyer for the Quebec government, on the other hand, argued that the obligation to inform voters does not equal a right to mailed documents in English. Cantin noted that Élections Québec has several other ways of delivering information to voters, including through English ads, the media, a phone line and online.

“What we’re trying to invent is a right to a mailing by post, and not a right to information because the information is there,” he said.

He said a ruling in Mitchell’s favour would amount to creating an “absolute obligation” to send material in both French and English. “And what else? What’s to stop it from continuing after that — and being sent out in every language — if you start putting that kind of thing forward?” he said.

Cantin also argued that it is up to the Quebec government to draft language laws, and to address issues with them.

That last assertion drew pushback from Superior Court Justice Sylvain Lussier, who noted that a government representing the majority can’t always be trusted to advocate for minority rights.

“When you say ‘trust the legislator,’ I’m not reassured,” he said.

Lussier also questioned Mitchell on why, by his logic, speakers of other languages shouldn’t also be able to insist to have voting information mailed to them in their first language.

Mitchell said the case hinged not only on whether a right is being violated, but also on whether the restriction could be justified. He said that wasn’t the case at present, especially since Élections Québec had itself argued for the importance of continuing to provide English documents.

Lussier took notice of Élections Québec’s cutoff date to produce the reminder cards, but did not say when he would issue a decision.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 10, 2026.

 

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The RCMP are highlighting the dangers of illegally riding electric motorcycles with the release of a new video of a young rider.

A B.C. Highway Patrol officer spotted the e-motorcyclist as he blew through a stop sign and nearly collided with a car before fleeing.

It happened on Aug. 28 along Grand Boulevard in North Vancouver.

Police believe the rider is between 14 and 18 years old. The rider’s face is blurred due to the requirements of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

They say there is a troubling new trend of young riders attempting to “bait” officers into a pursuit.

“We have seen instances where people on electric or small gas-powered motorcycles, who are clearly under the age, are driving in front of our police officers, looking back and trying to goad them into some kind of pursuit,” Sgt. Michael McLaughlin with BC Highway Patrol told Global News.

“Our officers are too well trained and they’re too focused on safety to do that, but the behavior’s got to stop… We really can’t have young people putting themselves and others at risk with this dangerous and ridiculous behavior.”

Police say electric motorcycles are for off-road use only as they have no pedals, no signal lights and no licence plates.
Cpl. Mike Kalanj with Burnaby RCMP said there was no indication that the rider was baiting the police officer in this case.

Our officer advised the rider to pull over on his loudspeaker, to which the rider responded by giving our officer the finger and speeding away,” he said in an email.

“Our officer quickly decided it was not safe to continue and turned his emergency equipment off and turned back to his prior call.”

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A Quebec judge has found rapper K’naan (given name Keinan Abdi Warsame) not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a Quebec City hotel room in 2010.

The complainant alleged that Warsame sexually assaulted her while she was asleep at the Hilton Quebec in July 2010.

During testimony last March, Warsame denied the allegation, telling the court that he and the woman had consensual sex the following morning and that no assault occurred during the night.

In delivering her decision Wednesday, Judge Julie Roy said she was not fully persuaded by Warsame’s account. However, she concluded that the evidence did not establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and found him not guilty.

Warsame, who grew up on Toronto, was in the province at the time to perform at Festival d’été de Québec.

His song Wavin’ Flag pushed Warsame to international success as after it was selected as Coca-Cola’s promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. His track Refugee, released in 2023, earned Warsame the Recording Academy’s Best Song for Social Change Award.

— with files from Kalina Laframboise and Sarah Do Couto 

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It’s an awkward thing to say.

But every Sept. 11, when the names of the 2,977 people killed in the terrorist attacks are read aloud at the World Trade Center site … I hear my name.

Michael J. Armstrong.

It’s a name I share, right down to the middle initial.

For more than two decades, I wondered about the other Michael Armstrong. Who was he? What was his life like? Who had he left behind?

Years ago, I came across something written by one of his sisters about the family’s efforts to keep Michael’s memory alive. They had created a foundation in his name. So, as I began putting together stories to mark 25 years since the attacks, I decided I wanted to help his family tell his story.

Even reaching out felt uncomfortable.

I knew the email would arrive in his sister’s inbox with one name attached to it: Michael Armstrong. I wondered what it would be like for her to see that name suddenly appear on her screen. And whether I had any right to ask her to open that door.

The response from Laura Armstrong was an immediate yes: “We look forward giving you a glimpse of just how special he was and how much he is missed!”

The ensuing back and forth turned into a visit to her home in Tappan, N.Y., last month.

The walls of Laura’s home are filled with family photos. Michael appears in many of them: Christmas mornings, Thanksgivings, St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, and one where he jumped on their father’s lap. He was goofing around after he as his sister Marian had bought Laura her first digital camera.

“He just had such a hearty laugh,” Laura said. “He laughed a lot.”

“He was just a warm kind of guy and he was great with kids,” Marian recalled.

Dozens of photos have been added to the walls in the 25 years since 9/11. Important events where Michael’s absence is impossible for the family to ignore.

“There are a lot of instances where we think that,” Laura said. “Where he should have been.”

Michael Armstrong was 34 years old and worked in electronic trading on Wall Street with the brokerage company Cantor Fitzgerald.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Michael was at work on the 104th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, above the floors struck by American Airlines Flight 11.

After the building was hit, Michael tried to reach members of his family by telephone.

His sister Marion remembers that his final cellphone call was to their mother. The family’s copy of his phone statement showed the call lasted two minutes.

But his mother couldn’t make out his words.

All she heard was static.

The family has always hoped that while Michael couldn’t be heard, he could hear his mother’s voice.

For hours that morning, his sisters clung to possibilities.

Maybe he had been late for work. Maybe what they were hearing about the Twin Towers wasn’t as bad as it sounded. They didn’t turn on the television.

“I really thought he was going to be OK,” Laura recalled. “As crazy as it is.”

The next few weeks in Michael’s life were supposed to be special. He and his fiancée, Catherine Nolan, were set to be married on Oct. 6, 2001.

Instead, Michael’s wake was held on Sept. 23, 2001.

He almost wasn’t in the office on 9/11. He’d been at a funeral the day before and missed work. And later in the week, he was scheduled to be off again for his bachelor party.

“We often said, like, oh, you know, so many things,” Catherine recalled. “If he had only left a few days earlier, if he had a dentist appointment the next day.”

“So many days that week he would not have been there,” Marian said.

Those are the what-ifs that can follow a family for decades.

Catherine eventually married and had children. Her youngest son’s middle name is Michael. She also never really left the Armstrong family.

“I always joke that I’ve got the in-laws without the husband,” she said.

Michael’s brother is godfather to one of her children. His sisters remain part of her life. Twenty-five years later, Catherine is still Aunt Catherine to the next generation of Armstrongs.

There is a gravity to grieving — a force that focuses on the pain. The Armstrongs chose instead to help others in Michael’s name.

Within days of the attacks, they established a scholarship fund at Loyola School, where Michael had been a student and remained an active alumnus. In the months that followed, the family established the Michael J. Armstrong Memorial Foundation.

For nearly 25 years, they have held fundraising events and supported causes connected to Michael’s life, including scholarships at Loyola and athletics at Fordham University, where Michael was an enthusiastic basketball fan.

His sister describes it as a place to channel all the emotions that followed his death. It’s also ensured his story didn’t stop on Sept. 11, 2001.

The family’s effort to remember Michael now extends to people who never had the chance to meet him.

His niece, Keeley, says Michael is a normal household name in the family. He died when she was young, but it has never felt that way.

“It’s amazing how much you can know someone through stories,” Keeley said.

Those stories have given another generation a picture of an uncle they never knew: his enormous laugh, his sense of humour, his bear hugs and his habit of teasing his siblings.

But there is still sadness. The next generation of Armstrongs is now approaching the age that Michael was when he was killed.

“We’re now in that stage of life of people getting married,” Keeley said, with tears welling up. “I can’t imagine that you’re supposed to be going to a bachelor party on Thursday, and then this happens.”

But the Armstrongs also remember something else about those days: how people responded to their pain.

Catherine found herself part of a group no one would ever choose to join — women who, like her, lost their fiancées on 9/11.

They found each other in the aftermath. Twenty-five years later, they still get together every Sept. 11 for lunch.

The support came from all directions. There were countless acts of kindness the family remembers from those first days: people reaching out, showing up and trying to help.

It’s something they’ve carried forward through the foundation, the scholarships and the years spent helping others in Michael’s name.

“I can’t look back at that day without thinking about the kindness, the care everyone took with me,” Marian says. “People are so beautiful.”

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The family of a B.C man killed in Ukraine is mourning his death.

“He paid the ultimate price for Canada and Ukraine,” said an emotional James Bourgeois, Jessy Bourgeois’ father.

The 46-year-old man was killed on Aug. 18 in the Donetsk region near the Russian border.

“They got hit by a drone attack, and Jesse was killed instantly,” said Bourgeois. “Another comrade was critically injured and died several days later.”

Bourgeois lived in Nanaimo, where he was introduced to the Ukrainian church.

His family says he quickly fell in love with the people and culture and eventually felt compelled to help defend the country.

“That’s where his heart laid,” said stepmom Dawn Bourgeois. “We didn’t understand it. We didn’t support it.”

Despite having no military experience, Jessy volunteered in November to fight alongside the Ukrainian Army.

He was working as a drone mechanic when he was killed.

“It’s one day at a time, and we try to find happiness every day. That’s all we can do,” Dawn said.

The Okanagan Falls couple says Jessy believed deeply in Ukraine and its efforts to fight for the country,

“He believed in what Ukraine was fighting for — for their freedom — and there was no talking him out of it,” James said.

Bourgeois leaves behind two children.

His family says they will grow up knowing their father was a hero.

“He was brave. He was brave for what he did,” James added.

The family’s grief comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Canada, seeking continued support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

James says Canada’s support remains important to him, particularly after his son’s death.

“My son lost his life for them,” he said. “I think as Canadians we got to keep backing them.”

Global Affairs Canada says it is aware of the death of a Canadian in Ukraine. The department says it does not keep a registry of Canadians who voluntarily travel to Ukraine to serve, or those who are injured or killed in the conflict.

However, the organization says it is aware of 35 Canadians who have died in Ukraine of all causes since the war began.

Jessy’s body is expected to be repatriated in the coming weeks with the help of the Ukrainian government.

For his family, the grief remains raw, but they find some comfort in knowing Bourgeois believed he was following his heart.

“I’m proud of what he did,” James said. “This was his calling. You look at his pictures, I sure don’t see any fear.”

Instead, he says, he sees determination to help a country in need.

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One of Mosaic Stadium’s biggest shows will not have its typical, game-day shuttle service, the City of Regina said.

While regular transit will run as normal in Saskatchewan’s capital, shuttle service will not be available for Tuesday’s concert because of the timing, Regina Mayor Chad Bachynski said.

“Just due to the timing of the concert, it wouldn’t be possible for us to have that dedicated chartered service,” Bachynski continued.

He said 4 p.m., when the venue’s doors open, is too close to the end of the workday for the city to offer shuttles, adding that Regina decided against it to ensure regular transit riders’ trips home aren’t interrupted.

“It wouldn’t be possible for us to actually take buses offline for the concert,” the mayor said.

Dave Grohl and company will headline the first concert at the stadium in seven years, and the band’s show is almost sold out, Kyle Russell, vice president of operations and experience with REAL District, told Global News. A few last-minute tickets are still available.

The REAL District is not providing transportation services and is advising concertgoers to plan ahead.

“This is really going to be an exercise in planning for coming to and from the concert,” Russell said.

He pointed people to the REAL District website, where information on getting to and from the venue is available.

“Parking’s on sale for the Foo Fighters concert,” Russell said.

Passes can be purchased online.

“We do encourage fans to prepay for parking in advance because we do anticipate a sellout, but the campus is a big parking lot,” Russell said.

“It’s just going to be a really fun night, and we’re looking forward to people coming out here for a full night of great music.”

The Foo Fighters will be joined by Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy. The first opening act is expected to hit the stage at Mosaic Stadium at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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