When are you too old to hit the dance clubs? Let’s face it: There comes a time for men and women when you look around a club, and you think to yourself, “I just don’t belong here anymore.”
According to a survey in Britain—and remember that the British are different from us when it comes to club culture—the age at which you’re officially too old to go to dance clubs is 37. I’m trying to imagine what a 22-year-old might think if they saw a person in their upper 30s hanging around their club.
No judgement from me, here—but I am asking. Keep in mind that this survey only dealt with dance clubs and not going out to see a band. But then there’s this: The survey also says that the age at which people begin to think that staying in is better than going out is 31.
Last time we spoke of lip-syncing, the act of miming along to a pre-recorded backing track. Being caught lip-syncing was once considered a public evil, especially after Milli Vanilli was exposed as a fraud after winning a Grammy Award. Since then, we’ve seen technical embarrassments by Ashley Simpson, Mariah Carey and a host of other people who rely on programmed bits.
But others just don’t care. Cher admits she does it. If you’ve seen Justin Bieber live, you’ll know that he often seems to keep singing even when the mic is nowhere near his face. And now, many pop audiences don’t seem to care if the vocals are live or not. They’ve come to see a show with lots of dancing, costume changes, and theatrics. But when it comes to rock audiences, lip-syncing is still considered to be inauthentic, fake and evil.
I wonder of the attitude of pop fans will filter down to rock fans? We’ll see.
We’ve all seen when artists pretend to sing a song when they’re just miming the words to a pre-recorded track.
Once upon a time, lip-syncing was considered to be a massive cheat, both on the part of the artist and when it came to audiences who went to concerts expecting to see a real performance. The outrage was such that there were even laws passed outlawing lip-syncing at concerts.
In fact, you still can’t lip-sync legally in New Hampshire because of a 1993 law that imposed “duties on promoters, places of musical entertainment and ticket agents to disclose whether all the lead vocals of a musical performance featuring vocals are pre-recorded.” No one can seem to find any record of the law being enforced, but the fact that it’s still on the books tells you something.
A hundred years ago, radio was still a wild new invention. Commercial broadcasts had only been around for a few years. This brings me to a couple of milestones.
On May 13, 1897—130 years ago this month—inventor Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless radio voice message from Cardiff, Wales, to Flat Holm, which is an island in the Bristol Channel. The message was “Can you hear me?”
Three years later, Marconi sent a wireless message from Cornwall, England, to St. John’s, Newfoundland. And then 25 years after that—this is 1925—Canada figured into another milestone. The first shortwave transatlantic transmission was sent from Somerset, England, to Drummondville, Quebec.
All modern telecommunications grew from these three successful experiments.
Twenty-one loaded handguns, nearly 200 rounds of ammunition and illegal add-ons – including a silencer – were seized from Winnipeg’s Central Park neighbourhood, leading to one man’s arrest, police said.
In addition to those items, $25,000 in cash, 27 grams of cocaine — which would be worth $2,700 if sold — and electronics were seized by police on May 7, Insp. Josh Ewatski with the Winnipeg Police Service’s organized crime division told reporters at a news conference on Monday.
“Investigators also located evidence indicating that a firearm had been discharged from within the suite, and the round had struck a church across the street” from the Cumberland Avenue apartment building, Ewatski added.
Officers discovered the round had struck the church after executing a search warrant by tracing the bullet’s path earlier this month, he said.
“By seizing these firearms, the organized crime unit members have prevented numerous shootings, including homicides – not only in Winnipeg and Manitoba, but throughout Canada,” Ewatski said.
“As we’ve learned that many of these firearms are trafficked within the province and across the country either before or after being used.”
Investigations are ongoing into whether any of the guns confiscated by police were used in other crimes across Canada, the inspector continued.
“We’re attempting to trace them to determine where they’ve come from. It’s possible that they have been used in other offences, but we don’t know that for sure yet,” Ewatski told reporters.
“Once these firearms are used, often we’ll see that they’ve been sold again. We’ve had firearms used in a shooting in Winnipeg and then that same firearm is used in a shooting in B.C., and it’s the same going east as well.”
Items seized by police, along with the firearms and ammunition, included cash and cocaine, the WPS said.
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Other items seized by police included cash and cocaine, the WPS said.
The 24-year-old man arrested by police is also accused of selling cocaine in several northern Manitoban communities, where the profit margins are high and the competition is slim.
“Drugs come from other areas of the country to Winnipeg and then are shipped to northern communities. And then they sell those drugs at twice the street value that you would normally see within Winnipeg,” Ewatski said.
The accused Winnipeg man is facing 77 firearm and drug trafficking-related charges, the inspector added.
His firearm charges include 21 counts of possession of a prohibited firearm, 22 counts of careless storage of a firearm, and one count of possession for the purpose of weapon trafficking, the WPS said.
So far in 2026, six gun-related homicides have been reported in Winnipeg, according to the inspector. He also said the city has seen 42 shootings, 13 of which involved someone being shot.
Lakefield College School, a private school in Lakefield, Ont., went into lockdown on May 25, 2026, after receiving a threat via a phone call. OPP say no threat was found.
OPP say no threat was found after a private boarding school just north of Peterborough, Ont., went into lockdown on Monday morning.
Officials at Lakefield College School say a lockdown procedure was initiated “out of an abundance of caution” following a “threatening phone call” received by the school located in the village of Lakefield.
Peterborough County OPP say just after 10 a.m., the school contacted them and officers arrived at the scene within minutes.
Neither the school nor police provided details on the nature of the threat.
“After a sweep of the school was conducted, it was confirmed that there was no immediate risk to the safety of the students or staff,” OPP stated.
The lockdown was lifted shortly after.
More than 430 students from grades 9 to 12 are enrolled at Lakefield College School, which has a long history of high-profile alumni. Among them are Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the disgraced former prince and duke of York; actor Will Arnett; musician Sebastian Bach of Skid Row; former Toronto mayor David Miller and the reigning king of Spain, Felipe VI.
King Felipe returned to the school last week for a private 40th anniversary reunion with former classmates, during which a student centre currently being constructed was named in his honour.
In a statement, the school says it is “grateful” for the response to the threat.
“We are grateful to our students, faculty, staff, emergency responders, and the OPP for their calm and professional response throughout the situation,” the school stated on its Facebook page. “Our emergency preparedness protocols were followed carefully and effectively.
“The OPP advised the school that similar false threat calls targeting schools have recently occurred across the United States, Europe, and more recently in Ontario. Authorities continue to actively investigate these incidents.
“We recognize that incidents of this nature can be unsettling for members of our community, and student support services remain available. Thank you to our families and community for your trust and support.”
OPP say their major crime unit is assisting in determining the source of the threat.
Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu, right, and India's Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal shake hands before a bilateral meeting in Ottawa on Monday, May 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to his country paved the way for a complete overhaul of the Canada-India relationship.
Goyal is in Canada for meetings on trade and investment this week, starting today with a discussion with Canadian International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu.
Goyal says the relationship between Canada and India will be very important in the coming years and both countries are keen to reach a free trade agreement by the end of the year.
He is accompanied by more than 100 senior business representatives from industries including mining, energy, automotive and aerospace, in what India is calling its largest-ever business delegation to Canada.
Sidhu says the countries have been engaging in “WhatsApp diplomacy” and that Canada will be sending a delegation to India to continue trade talks later this year.
Carney visited Mumbai and New Delhi in March after making resetting relations with India a priority after he became prime minister in 2025.
Ugandan health authorities report two new Ebola cases, as the number of suspected cases reached 900 in neighbouring Congo, where the outbreak originated. Dr. Joanne Liu, Director of the Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab and Professor of Global and Public Health with McGill University, joins Miranda Anthistle to discuss the latest details on this growing health crisis.
A group of armed young men stormed a Congo hospital treating Ebola patients amid the ongoing outbreak on Sunday evening, forcing staff to evacuate patients during rounds of heavy gunfire, The Associated Press reported.
It was not immediately known if anyone was hurt in the attack on the Mongbwalu General Hospital, but Dr. Richard Lokudu, the hospital’s medical director, told the AP that the attackers demanded that two bodies of their kin be handed over to them.
There was gunfire, and the medics were trying to evacuate the patients and the staff, Lokudu told the news agency in a phone interview.
“Mongbwalu General Hospital is on general alert,” he added. He did not share any further details.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, with more than 900 suspected cases and 220 suspected deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The gunfire attack was the third violent incident within four days at Congo health facilities amid a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak, exacerbated by a lack of resources and public health-care infrastructure.
On Saturday, an Ebola treatment centre set up by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group in a town at the epicentre of the crisis was burned to the ground by Congolese locals who became frustrated while trying to retrieve the body of a local man, the AP said.
During that attack, 18 people with suspected Ebola infections fled the temporary facility and were unaccounted for, Lokudu said in a previous statement.
Vanny Birungi, a Red Cross volunteer, speaks to people during a house-to-house sensitization campaign amid the Ebola outbreak in Bunia, Congo, Monday, May 25, 2026.
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On Thursday, another treatment centre, in the town of Rwampara, was burned down after family members were banned from retrieving the body of a local man suspected of dying of Ebola.
Corpses of infected Ebola patients can be highly contagious, and contact with them can lead to further spread of the disease when people prepare them for burial and gather for funeral services.
In response to the outbreak, Congolese authorities have mandated that the dangerous work of burying suspected victims be managed wherever possible by authorities, which can be met by protests from families and friends.
On Friday, the government said funeral wakes and gatherings of more than 50 people would be banned in northeastern Congo to curb the spread of the virus.
The WHO has said the outbreak poses a “very high” risk for Congo, which has been upgraded from its previous categorization of “high,” but that the risk of a global spread remains low.
Last week, Canadian health authorities introduced enhanced screening measures for Ebola at airports for returning travellers after an individual who was tested in Ontario tested negative for the deadly virus.
Dr. Joss Reimer, Canada’s chief public health officer, said during a virtual press conference last week that “comprehensive” screening has been in place at Canadian airport inspection kiosks since Wednesday and includes additional questions asking returning airline passengers whether they have been to the Democratic Republic of Congo or neighbouring Uganda within 21 days of arriving in Canada.
No travel ban is currently in place for Canadians, though an existing advisory urging Canadians to avoid non-essential travel to and within the region due to a fragile security situation was already in effect.
Some U.S. travel bans are in effect, including for green card holders who have been to the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the last 21 days, Reuters reported.
— with files from The Associated Press and Global News’ Sean Boynton
WATCH ABOVE: Business Matters — Housing starts slow to a crawl in Canada’s largest and most expensive cities
Investment in Canada’s housing construction sector is declining, data from Statistics Canada shows.
Canada’s real estate sector saw $22.6 billion invested in building construction in March, a drop of $304.6 million, or 1.3 per cent, compared with February.
However, the drop was sharper when compared with March 2025, with investment in residential real estate construction dropping 2.2 per cent, while the non-residential sector saw a modest 0.6 per cent increase, Statistics Canada said.
In the residential sector, investment in construction dropped to $15.5 billion in March, decreasing by $345.4 million. While multi-unit housing construction saw a 2.3 per cent decline, single-family homes were not untouched by the downturn, seeing investment decline by 2.1 per cent in March.
Investment in multi-unit construction was down $195.5 million to $8.4 billion in March, marking the third consecutive monthly decrease, Statistics Canada said, while investment in single-family home construction was down $149.9 million to $7.2 billion.
Ontario led the declines across the board in residential construction, with investment in multi-unit properties in the province dropping by $152.2 million, significantly higher than the province with the next highest drop — Alberta, with a $59-million decline.
The province also led the decrease in single-family home construction, with investment declining by $119.5 million.
In its housing market outlook for 2026, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation said new home construction in Canada will continue to decline until 2028, citing high costs for developers, weaker demand and more unsold homes.
In 2025, 259,000 homes began construction across Canada. That number is projected to fall to 247,000 this year, 223,000 in 2027 and 216,000 in 2028.
Condominium starts will be especially weak, CMHC said.
Canada’s condo market downturn has entered its fifth year, recent data from real estate research firm Urbanation shows.
In a typical year, based on the 10-year average, there would be 4,046 condos sold in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA) in the first three months of the year. Between January and March of 2026, that number was 246, the report said.
RELATED: Ontario government releases details of $191K in extra private jet costs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says “no one is more ticked off” than him about the extra $191,000 in sunk costs for the government’s brief purchase of a private jet, but did not say he would cover them.
In mid-April, the province took possession of a second-hand Bombardier Challenger 650 for the premier and cabinet ministers to use, selling it a few days later after public backlash.
The jet cost the government $28.9 million plus tax, the same rate the government was able to sell it back to Bombardier for.
An extra $191,000 in purchase costs incurred by the province, however, were not covered and now look set to come out of the provincial treasury.
“No one’s more ticked off about the $200 grand,” Ford told reporters at an unrelated event on Monday. “I pride myself on saving taxpayers $12 billion every single year. That’s what we’re going to focus on.”
Ford has said he regrets how he explained his decision to buy the jet and how it was announced, but has suggested that even though he reversed the purchase, it wasn’t a mistake.
The jet was immediately dubbed the “gravy plane” by the government’s political critics, who said the price tag, along with the luxury afforded only to the premier, was an affront to Ontario residents struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
For weeks, Ford’s opponents have called on either the premier or the Progressive Conservatives to cover the extra costs.
“If he was really ticked off about it, then he’d make somebody pay, not the people of Ontario,” Ontario Liberal interim leader John Fraser said.
“I don’t buy that for a second. This folksy stuff, he’s not more ticked off. If he wasn’t, it wouldn’t have happened. He bought a jet to indulge himself.”
The NDP has also urged Ford to personally foot the bill, but when asked about that at an unrelated press conference today, Ford would not commit to it.
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