What do the following authors have in common: J.D. Salinger, Emily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde? They are famous for writing just one novel.

J.D. Salinger? The Catcher in the Rye. Emily Brontë? Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde? The Picture of Dorian Gray. Home runs. Classics. Enduring favourites. Lasting fame. Millions of copies sold around the planet. But in each case, there were no follow-ups. They were all one and done.

J.D. Salinger became a recluse. Emily Brontë died shortly after the publication of Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde stayed with writing plays. As novelists go, they are all one-hit wonders.

When it comes to music, one-hit wonders are an endless source of amusement. How can someone become internationally famous for decades when they only have one song that anyone cares about?

These are special cases where lightning is captured exactly once. And no matter how many more songs these artists wrote, they would never, ever achieve that extreme level of fame again. A single song overshadows every other effort.

Let’s apply this to the history of alt-rock. What songs and artists qualify?

It took a bunch of research, but I think I managed to crack it using a combination of statistics. And we’re now up to episode four of five in this mission: the 50 all-time biggest alt-rock one-hit wonders.

Songs heard on this show:

• Doctor and the Medics, Spirit in the Sky
• Enigma, Sadeness (Part 1)
• Edwyn Collins, A Girl Like You
• Peter Schilling, Major Tom (Coming Home)
• White Town, Your Woman
• Meredith Brooks, Bitch
• Marcy Playground, Sex and Candy
• The Caesars, Jerk It Out
• Chumbawamba, Tubthumping
• The La’s, There She Goes

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

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Have you ever wondered why heavy metal singers can scream for hours on end, but other singers lose their voices all the time? You’d think it would be the other way around, right? Turns out there’s a weird answer to this medical mystery of music.

Using a special high-speed camera designed to visualize vocal cords, a speech doctor in San Francisco discovered that a heavy metal singer’s screaming is more like a baby’s than an adult’s. When a metal singer sings, they’re not actually straining their vocal cords. Their muscles relax and flap to create sounds, rather than squeezing out the loudness like most adults.

It’s a skill that babies instinctively use to protect their throats while crying and screaming, but is usually forgotten as they grow older. For whatever reason, heavy metal singers are still able to do it, and doctors hope they can teach the technique to patients with throat injuries and vocal issues.

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Music scenes flourish everywhere, even in Antarctica, the last true wilderness on Earth. Home to a few thousand research scientists, Antarctica has a unique historical music scene. In a place where the only sounds are the occasional penguin or cracking glacier, music is often what breaks the silence.

To keep up spirits with a link to civilization, the famous Captain Robert Falcon Scott brought two gramophones on his last expedition to the South Pole at the turn of the 20^th century. There are many reports of sailors singing to penguin colonies. No word on whether this pleased or annoyed the penguins. S

cientists based there today have their own little scene. The Argentinians really like metal, and the American base has a classical aficionado. The Ukrainian station is into folk, and some of its researchers even hold jam sessions. One Ukrainian scientist even built a piano in their lab to pass the long Antarctic winter.

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has played under several interesting band names in his career. There was a metal act in high school called Avant Garde. They later became Zoom, after experimenting with Prong and Power Chicken. When that band broke up, Cuomo joined a group called Sixty Wrong Sausages, which expanded into a four-piece in 1992. They remained nameless while they wrote and rehearsed, but name suggestions included Meathead, Outhouse, Hummingbird, The Big Jones, and This Niblet.

The name Weezer was a fluke. Actor Keanu Reeves and his alt band Dogstar decided to play an impromptu gig in Hollywood one evening and needed an opening act. Cuomo’s unnamed group got lucky and landed the slot, but now needed a name to perform under. Rivers suggested Weezer, the nickname he was teased with as a kid because of his inhaler. And, after a long meeting, Weezer ended up being the name.

Thank you, Keanu Reeves, for forcing the situation.

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Colton and Kadriana Lott are among the most decorated mixed doubles curling teams in Canada and are determined to add to their medal haul.

The Gimli, Man., couple have won two gold, two silver and a bronze at the Canadian Mixed Doubles Championships since 2019 and now hope to capture Canada’s first title at the World Mixed Doubles Championship in Geneva, Switzerland, starting Saturday.

“Obviously, Canada hasn’t won gold in this discipline and that’s what we’re setting out to do. We couldn’t be more hungry and driven to do so,” Colton Lott said on a media call Tuesday.

The Lotts posted an 8-1 record at the 2024 world championship but failed to medal.

“We’ve both been there before, so we know what to expect,” said Kadriana.

“Each game of ours is always a tough battle. So, we’re ready to do that throughout the week and hopefully we’ll finish it off with a strong ending.”

Colton has already enjoyed success this season, winning his first Brier at third for Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone and adding a silver at the world men’s curling championship.

“There’s always a little bit of pressure,” he said. “Leaning on past experiences with men’s worlds and our worlds, it kind of alleviates some of that pressure. Just with our capability, we know what we can showcase on the world stage.”

That field will include Italy’s defending champions and 2022 Olympic gold medallists Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner, but few other established teams.

“There’s definitely a lot of different teams there, teams that we probably haven’t seen too much, but everybody’s good,” Colton said. “The games are played at a fast pace and kind of intense, so we just take it game by game and keep that focus within the group and try to put a lot of pressure on them and keep moving forward, shot by shot.”

The Lotts warmed up for the worlds by winning a Super Series mixed doubles event in Ontario.

“We were undefeated throughout the whole event and had the best draw to the button, so that was a good booster going into next week,” said Kadriana, who also plays second for Saskatchewan’s Nancy Martin.

“We feel pretty good,” Colton said. “It was nice to get back together, especially after the men’s worlds, and we’re in a good headspace going in, feeling good and ready to rock.”

Kadriana said watching her husband come close to gold at the men’s world championship added to her motivation.

“I got so pumped, even just watching his worlds,” she said. “Even attending it makes me more eager and more excited to play this event … I feel we’re ready for this week.”

The Lotts left Tuesday, were due to arrive in Geneva on Wednesday, and will play their first game Saturday.

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The Montreal Canadiens already had the game they needed in Tampa Bay, but a second one would completely put them in charge of the best-of-seven series. However, the Lightning knew they absolutely had to have this one, and they played like it.

Tampa Bay came back for a 3-2 win in overtime.

Wilde Horses

Former versions of the Canadiens would have wilted like aged flowers at the violence that the Lightning tried to create in the contest. Montreal has in the last decade been a small team that didn’t have an answer for physical play. They didn’t want to shy away from it, but they simply didn’t have the players to be bold.

Even last season, against the Washington Capitals, the Canadiens weren’t bold enough as Tom Wilson charged around the ice without being challenged. Starting against the Lightning two weeks ago at the Bell Centre, it all began to change. Montreal answered every bit of intimidation the Lightning tried — while winning the game as well.

Head Coach Martin St. Louis was asked about that intimidation in the playoffs. St. Louis said he felt that it wasn’t that his club didn’t want to answer to it, but wasn’t prepared for it. Now, they are prepared. They have an expectation that every whistle will be a scrum; that every player will face violence. In the first intermission, Kaiden Guhle described it as a war out there.

The way to beat the violence is to answer to it, give your own, and then score on the power play to make them pay for it. The Lightning were the most penalized team in the league this season, but when four goals have already been scored on the power play against them, they have a problem.

After three goals with the extra-man in game one, the Canadiens started the scoring with yet another power-play goal. It was Lane Hutson from the point with the shot that found its way. Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki counted the assists.

To win a series, the best players have to be the best players. For the Canadiens, there are no passengers at all among the best. The stars are contributing. Four goals on six power-play opportunities after the first period tally.

The stars also contributed five-on-five. The top line got caved in during game one with an Expected Goals of only five per cent. It’s the first time in ages that the Suzuki line was dominated like that. They responded in a big way with a vastly different night. After two periods, the Expected Goals for the Suzuki line was 80 per cent. They completely flipped the script.

When considering the violence that the Lightning want to bring and are bringing, and the way that has been popular to beat the Canadiens, it’s absolutely vital, and a massive bonus, that the third pair on defence is playing so well.

Montreal wants to have the intimidation power of Arber Xhekaj and Jayden Struble on the ice, but if they couldn’t handle the actual pace of the play, they couldn’t enjoy the benefits of their physical presence. Xhekaj is one of the best fighters in the league, and his double-edged game is massive to the fortunes of the team during playoff hockey.

General Manager Marc Bergevin got it right when he said some guys get you to the playoffs, and some guys get you through the playoffs, because the value of Josh Anderson, Xhekaj, Struble, and Kaiden Guhle goes up when tempers go up. That they can also contribute to the actual hockey is of immense value. The partnership of Struble and Xhekaj had an Expected goals share of 96 per cent through two periods.

In fact, it was one of those ‘get you through the playoffs’ players who contributed to the go-ahead goal late in the second period. Anderson continued his strong play with his second tally of the series. Anderson won the battle for space in front of the net, and pocketed a two-footer.

As the game wore on, it began to trend toward Tampa, so credit to Jakub Dobes. He was strong. In the overtime, Dobes kept his concentration up to make excellent stops and keep Montreal in it until he couldn’t.

Wilde Goats 

The lessons continue for Ivan Demidov. In only his second playoff, he hasn’t quite figured out how to use his skill-set to advantage yet. It’s too early to know whether the problem is the pace of the play, or the physicality of the play, but it’s not happening positively for him.

It’s more likely that this is a physicality issue. He’s never been troubled for speed, and other players who don’t process quickly aren’t struggling for speed, so it seems that Demidov is too aware of the violence, and is rushing his plays because of it.

A good example is with nine minutes left in the third period, Demidov was six feet before centre, and he wanted to clear it into the Tampa zone, but he saw the check coming at him, so he dumped it early causing an icing. He knows that he needs to get to centre first, but he rushed it because he didn’t want to take a hit.

It will come for Demidov, but, for now, this is a player who has not yet figured it out at the playoff level in the NHL. However, he is comfortable on the power play, and this is natural, because no one is going to run him during an extra-man advantage. It will be interesting to watch the progression of Demidov as the playoffs continue. He has to wrap his mind around making plays at whatever the cost. He has to wrap his mind around that he is the difference-maker. The more he grabs the puck, and the moment, the more he will understand that he can. It’s a process.

The Canadiens played nearly flawless hockey in the third period, but a turnover by Slafkovsky changed the game. He made a no-look pass for a breakout, but there was only a Tampa player there. That led to Nikita Kucherov with the tally for 2-2 with seven minutes left.

The overtime was bizarre. For 60 minutes, the Canadiens were strong, but they played poorly in the extra frame. Suddenly, Tampa Bay had plenty of free space. The Canadiens couldn’t even muster a shot for the 11 minutes. They had no pressure at all in the Tampa zone.

Montreal was making mistakes all over the ice. They lost all the battles. They didn’t seem to have the same number of players on the ice. It was odd — to be so even for so long, but then have no footprint at all.

It was a small mistake that cost the game. Kirby Dach had a chance to skate to centre, then dump it in, but he didn’t skate to centre. It led to a face-off in Montreal’s zone, and that led to the game winner. Dach was the man who lost his check on the overtime goal as well.

Wilde Cards

It’s too early to know who will take this Lightning-Canadiens series. It’s highly competitive, and the breaks could still fall to either team to decide it in the next week to ten days.

However, it is becoming apparent that the winds of change are moving vastly in the Canadiens direction already. When it becomes obvious that the Canadiens are the team of the future and the Lightning are the team of the past is still unknown, but that moment is on the horizon.

The Lightning have an average age of 29.5 while the Canadiens have an average of 25.5. The Canadiens are the youngest, and the Lightning are among the oldest.

It’s more than just the age of 20 players, though, that matters. It’s the age of the key players that tells the tale of the tape. The Canadiens will dominate for many years to come.

The nucleus of the Canadiens is young. Nick Suzuki is 26. Cole Caufield just turned 25. Juraj Slafkovsky just turned 22. Lane Hutson is 22. Ivan Demidov is 20. That’s the first power play unit for the next close to a decade.

In net, the best goaltender in the NHL in the last 20 games of the season, Jakub Dobes, is 24. Admittedly, goaltending is a bit of voodoo and Dobes maintaining a high level is somewhat of a mystery because of his position. However, should he falter, Jacob Fowler is 21.

These are players who have already proven to be among the league’s best and brightest young stars, and who have not shown their ceilings talent-wise. In some cases, like Demidov, they are just scratching the surface of what greatness they can bring.

On the other hand, the legendary nucleus of the Lightning, while still playing strong hockey, will soon find that Father Time is catching up to them, and will eventually pull out a late victory. Victor Hedman is 35. Ryan McDonagh is 36. Nikita Kucherov is 32. Brayden Point is 30. Jake Guentzel is 31. Andrei Vasilesvkiy is 31.

Of their stars and top players who will carry them into the next generation, only Brandon Hagel is young at 27.

When it becomes obvious the Canadiens are the future and the Lightning are the past may not be this playoffs. It may not even be next playoffs, but if you’re a fan, there’s so much more to be excited about cheering for Montreal.

The underdog won’t be the Canadiens for much longer.

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

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Around Edmonton, everyone is getting into the Edmonton Oilers playoff spirit, whether it’s through car flags, pet bandanas or home displays. But for one Oilers fan, parts of his shrine were stolen.

When the Oilers playoffs come around each year, Warren Sillanpaa gets to work. For four years straight, he has been building a shrine to the team in his front yard and on his fence. It features Oilers jerseys, a custom oil derrick and signatures from fans.

But, something is missing from Sillanpaa’s display. Thieves grabbed the flags from his shed and cut them off from the poles.

“These flags here, they’re on all these poles. I think 11, we got two left. We had a couple on the house, and a couple on the poles. The flags were a really good element cause they add animation, liven the place up, because everything else is pretty static,” said Sillanpaa.

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It was a cold Monday morning on March 29, 2021, when Trina Hunt’s remains were discovered near Hope.

More than five years later, a bombshell development.

“Honestly, a complete state of disbelief,” Stephanie Ibbott, Trina Hunt’s cousin-in-law, said.

“It makes no sense.”

The Attorney General of Canada filed an application in federal court in Ottawa last month under subsection 38.04 (1) of the Canada Evidence Act, seeking to withhold “sensitive” information in the case against Trina’s husband — Iain Hunt — because, if revealed, it would threaten national security.

“It is extremely rare,” Michel Juneau Katsuya, a former CSIS intelligence officer, told Global News.

“Obviously here, somebody wants to protect some sensitive information that individuals, somewhere, somehow, represent a risk to the federal government.”

Iain Hunt was charged in February 2025 with one count of indignity to human remains for allegedly disposing of his wife’s body, two days before he reported her missing from Port Moody in January 2021.

No one has been charged with the 48-year-old’s death.

Nine months after Iain was charged, an unidentified person notified the Attorney General of Canada “that they believe sensitive or potentially harmful (injurious) information may be disclosed…” in connection with the case against Iain.

A month later in December 2025, the Attorney General of Canada refused to authorize the release of the secret content, stating… “Disclosure of the information in question would be injurious to national security.” (Source: Attorney General of Canada, Federal Court Application, filed March 2026)

“Certainly never seen it in this kind of case,” Patrick McCann said.

He is part of a special group of Canadian lawyers with top secret security clearance for national security proceedings.

In more than 40 years in criminal law, McCann has only been involved in two section 38 applications.

“Defence may not know what the rationale is for withholding it is,” he said.

“They would know what they are looking for, but they would not know the context that created the national security issue. They may; they may not.”

A spy, confidential informant, or sensitive technology are all examples of what can be captured in a rare section 38 application, which is specifically invoked to protect information that could harm: national security, national defence, or international relations if the content is disclosed in court.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Rob Dhanu, K.C., a criminal lawyer and former Crown prosecutor, said.

“Ultimately, if a judge decides that our national security interests are at stake, it could lead to a stay of proceedings.”

Trina’s family and the public are in the dark about when the confidential hearing will take place. The Department of Justice will only say a date has not been confirmed.

“We’re nowhere close to justice and yet there’s the potential that the whole case, so far, as we know it, could get thrown out, so honestly, where’s the accountability?” Ibbott said.

Iain Hunt is not in custody. His lawyer, Greg Delbigio, has declined to comment because the case is before the courts.

Iain’s provincial court trial on one count of indignity to human remains is set for October 2027, but this is hinging on the outcome of the national security application in federal court.

–with files from Rumina Daya / Global News

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Kelowna, B.C.’s waterfront is still quiet, but it won’t be long before visitors return.

This year, tourism operators are hoping the province’s move to loosen short-term rental restrictions will translate into a stronger season, after what many describe as two flat summers.

“I think will be just a really good relief for a lot of businesses and a lot of people,” said restaurateur Casey Greabeiel.

Greabeiel said the restrictions played a role in last year’s closure of Salt and Brick, one of his three restaurants.

He’s hoping the addition of more short-term rental units will mean a much-needed boost at his two other locations, Diner Deluxe and Pretty Not Bad.

But he said he’s not expecting a big impact this summer, with the June 1 exemption coming as many summer plans are already booked.

“I think everybody has to be cautiously optimistic,” Greabeiel said. “Announcing this, you know, a little bit late in the game…but I do think it’s positive.”

But as short-term rental hosts prepare to welcome tourists, for some, the process has been frustrating and costly.

“I was in excess of 15 (thousand) to $18,000 that was just gone in an instant,” said Taylor Cameron, a short-term rental host.

Cameron has legally operated a short-term rental at her principle residence for four years. However, when she went to renew on the provincial registry a day before the April 10th deadline, she says the system recognized it as a new application and not a renewal.

That delayed the process and caused her registration to expire, which then trigged Airbnb to automatically cancel bookings.

“That’s a system failure and there was very little acknowledgement or empathy to the chaos that they created and caused, shutting down businesses instantly,” Cameron said. “I know of at least, probably 50 to 60 that had this happen to them.”

Cameron said what added to the frustration is it took days to connect with a government representative to fix the problem.

While reservations are getting rebooked slowly, Cameron said the ordeal has been extremely stressful.

“I have not recouped April and May,” she said.  “I’m a single homeowner. This is my retirement plan. This is my affordable housing plan.”

The minister responsible said she’s aware some hosts have had challenges, but added that thousands have been able to renew without any issues.

“There’s a 40-day window for renewal and we encourage folks to get started on that early, so that if there is a technical challenge or another challenge, there’s a good amount of time staff are available to provide support and resolve any issues,” said Christine Boyle, B.C.’s minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs.

The provincial registry was launched in the spring of 2025, with one of the goals aimed at preventing illegal operators.

But Cameron said it feels the system is instead hurting hosts like her, who are doing everything by the book.

“I’m having a hard time constantly, really putting together the true impact of all this,” she said.

The exemption to the short-term rental restrictions in Kelowna takes affect June 1st.

So far, about 20 building stratas have applied to operate as short-term rentals.

As of late last week, the city said it had received more than 300 business licence applications from individual owners of the units in those buildings.

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Vancouver police are investigating a case of road rage involving a Vancouver Taxi driver.

Video of the incident was shared on social media on Sunday, but police said it doesn’t show the full interaction of what happened.

The incident happened in Chinatown.

The driver of a Vancouver Taxi can be seen stopped in the middle of Pender Street, arguing with the driver of another vehicle, which was pulled over.

The driver then exits and more words between the two are exchanged, but then the other driver reverses and passes the taxi.

The taxi driver then jumps in his cab and pursues the other vehicle in the oncoming lane, cutting the driver off twice.

Vancouver police said that Vancouver Taxi is cooperating with the investigation. The driver of the taxi has been identified and the investigation is ongoing.

In a statement to Global News, Vancouver Taxi said it has spoken with the driver regarding the incident.

“He acknowledges that his behaviour was not acceptable and understands that it does not meet our company’s standards,” the statement reads.

“As per his statement, the situation escalated after another driver attempted to pass him on the right side and used inappropriate language toward him, which contributed to the incident.

“We have reminded the driver of the importance of maintaining professionalism at all times, regardless of the actions of others, and have addressed this matter internally.”

“Clearly from the video, there’s some very bad driving behaviour,” Sgt. Adam Donaldson with the Vancouver police said.

“Definitely violating the Motor Vehicle Act, potentially even some criminal driving behaviour and because that is in such a built-up urban area, there’s people around. It’s a very dangerous situation.”

Police said the other driver has not been identified at this time.

“If anybody’s in fear during a road rage incident, the best advice is to not try and speed away or not draw yourself into a chase,” Donaldson added.

“Lock yourself in your car if you can, call 911.”

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