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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There are a lot of big names on this week’s New Music Friday list. I’m pretty sure you’ll recognize them.

Singles

1. The Rolling Stones, In the Stars (Polydor/Universal)

After a long tease about some band called The Cockroaches (the pseudonym used by The Stones for two gigs at the El Mocambo in Toronto back in 1977), the group announced Foreign Tongues, a new album coming on July 12. The big question: Will this be the last Stones album? Mick (supernaturally fit at 82), Keef (supernaturally decrepit at 82, but probably immortal), and the forever New Guy, Ronnie (joined 1975) at 78 (with significant health challenges, including cancer. We’ll see, I suppose.

2. Three Days Grace, Don’t Wanna Go Home Tonight (RCA Records)

The latest version of 3DG (the one featuring dual lead vocalists) has been doing great over the last year, no matter how you want to measure things: streams, sales, downloads, and concert tickets sold. This is the latest single to come from the Alienation album.

3. Weird Nightmare, Forever Elsewhere (Dine Alone)

Whenever I see a new name on the Dine Alone label, I tend to pay attention. Weird Nightmare is an interesting amalgamation of experienced Canadian musicians: Alex Edwins (frontman for METZ; this is his project), along with drummer Loel Campbell (Wintersleep) and bass player Roddy Kuester (Sadies). There’s everything from power pop to British glam to anthem rock to bits of Dinosaur Jr. and Teenage Fanclub here. Weird Nightmare is about to go on a North American tour.

Albums

1. Broken Social Scene, Remember the Humans (Arts & Crafts)

It’s been nearly a decade since I was able to talk about a new BSS album. This time, the group (under the guidance of co-founder Kevin Drew), is looking back a little. The songs evocate feelings of teenage times with all the sensations of love, loss, discovery, and new possibilities. For Kevin, this would have been the 90s in the era before the internet changed everything. I’ll be listening closely to this one. Sounds like my kind of record.

2. The Flatliners, Cold World (Equal Vision)

More essential CanCon. The Flats (est. 2002 in Richmond Hill ON), have released a ton of stuff over the years on both sides of the border. Their latest (their first away from Fat Mike’s Fat Wreck Records) is their first in four years. Frontman Chris Cresswell says this release is all about “dealing with the BS of the world around you.” Such is the punk spirit, right?

3. Lykke Li, The Afterparty (Neon Gold)

Lykke (full name: Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson) has been making music since 2007 and is now apparently done with it all. Her sixth album is being described as her last. It’s not long–the nine tracks are over in a shade under 25 minutes–but it is a stylistic departure from previous album. For one thing, it features a 17-piece orchestra to help express some pretty dark and existential stuff.

4. Social Distortion, Born to Kill (Epitaph)

At last! Mike Ness is healthy again (he had a tonsil cancer scare) and all the delays that have plagued this record since about 2011 have been overcome. The result is the first new Social Distortion album in fifteen years. I feel better now.

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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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The Canada Border Services Agency says the Chief Mountain port of entry will be open for the summer season on May 15 through Sept. 30.

The international border crossing is located along Highway 6 in Alberta on the boundary of Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta and Glacier National Park in Montana.

With an elevation of more than 1,700 metres (5,649 feet), it is the highest of all border crossings in Canada and is considered one of the country’s most scenic ports of entry.

Due to harsh winters and its elevation, it only operates for the summer season.

The border crossing’s hours of operation (mountain daylight time) will be:

• May 15, 2026, to May 31, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• June 1, 2026, to Sept. 7, 2026, from  7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Sept. 8, 2026, to  Sept. 30, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The CBSA encourages travellers to visit Border Information Services online or call them at 1-800-461-9999 before their trip to make sure they have all the necessary travel documents to help speed up processing times.

Travellers are also encouraged to not travel with firearms, but if they choose to do so, to check the CBSA website for the rules on importing firearms and other restricted and prohibited goods.

The CBSA says more than 56,000 travellers used the Chief Mountain port of entry during the 2025 season.

— With a file from The Canadian Press

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Global BC is hosting a live BC Conservative leaders debate on Saturday, May 9.

The debate will be broadcast from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., commercial-free.

Global BC’s legislative reporter, Ben O’Hara Byrne, will be moderating the debate, which will feature all five leadership candidates:

• Iain Black
• Caroline Elliott
• Kerry-Lynne Findlay
• Yuri Fulmer
• Peter Milobar

The BC Conservative Party has provided a breakdown on its website about each candidate and their priorities, policy ideas and campaign activities.

Tune in on Saturday, May 9, at 4:30 p.m. for the BC Conservative leadership debate.

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A 68-year-old man has been hospitalized following a house fire in Vaughan that broke out Thursday night, police said.

York Regional Police said officers responded to a residential fire on Ellerby Square near Kipling Avenue and Highway 7 on May 6 at about 10:45 p.m.

Vaughan fire arrived to the scene and noted a person was unaccounted for. Deputy fire Chief Grant Moffat told Global News that crews began searching for the individual and later removed one person from the home.

The man was found unresponsive, and Moffat said CPR was performed for about 20 minutes before he was transported to hospital by paramedics.

York Region Paramedic Services said it cannot comment on the condition of the man due to privacy reasons.

Police said they are maintaining the scene while the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal investigates.

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Louise Arbour will be sworn in as Canada’s next governor general on June 8, the Canadian Heritage Department confirmed.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday the retired Supreme Court justice will replace Mary Simon, who became Canada’s first Indigenous viceregal in 2021.

Arbour, an accomplished former jurist, is fluently bilingual, and has also previously served as UN human rights commissioner and chief prosecutor at The Hague.

Arbour, 79, was chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and made history when she became the first to indict a sitting head of state, president Slobodan Milosevic, for crimes against humanity.

The Montreal native also secured the first conviction for genocide since the establishment of the 1948 Genocide Convention, for the case against a former Rwandan mayor.

She also was first to prosecute sexual assaults as crimes against humanity.

King Charles approved Arbour’s appointment, which is the first since he took the throne in 2022.

The governor general is the King’s representative in Canada, a constitutional role that includes serving as commander-in-chief while representing Canada at home and abroad.

Her official duties include swearing cabinet ministers into office, proroguing and dissolving Parliament, making appointments on the prime minister’s advice, and granting Royal Assent to turn bills into law.

The swearing-in ceremony typically includes an address from the new governor general highlighting the themes she will prioritize during her mandate.

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A cat died of bird flu late last month in southeastern Saskatchewan and now the province is reminding owners how to keep their pets safe this spring.

On the morning of April 20, the pet cat was said to be acting normally. Then, symptoms of the H5N1 strain of avian flu set in, and the animal died later that day, according to the Saskatchewan government news release.

“(The cat) became suddenly, severely ill with sudden neurological and respiratory signs,” it said.

Testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency at Prairie Diagnostic Services in Saskatoon confirmed the presence of HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza), the release said.

While the location where the animal lived was not disclosed, the government release said, “the cat was known to spend time outdoors.”

It was tested by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency at Prairie Diagnostic Services in Saskatoon, but the location where the cat lived was not disclosed.

Mammalian pets, including cats and dogs, are at risk of contracting the illness, according to the CFIA’s website.

Symptoms in pets can include a lack of appetite, loss of co-ordination, difficulty breathing and neurological signs — these can include tremors and seizures, it says.

Sudden unexplained death was another possible symptom, as per the province.

To protect pets, it recommended keeping cats inside and dogs on a leash.

Pet owners should also avoid feeding their animals raw poultry, or any raw meat from an unknown source, and avoiding contact with dead or sick birds, it added.

Chances of a pet contracting the virus are higher during the spring migration, the province said. This is due to the increased activity of wild waterfowl, such as ducks or geese.

“The risk to the public remains low when people avoid direct contact with sick or dead birds. Members of the public should not touch, feed or handle sick or dead wild birds,” it added.

Sick or dead wild birds can be reported to Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Environment Inquiry Centre.

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A New Brunswick man has been handed down two life sentences, to be served concurrently, for the 2019 murders of a couple in their home.

Janson Bryan Baker was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Bernard Saulnier, 78, and his wife Rose-Marie Saulnier, 74, in March after a two-month trial.

In his sentencing, Justice Cameron Gunn told Baker he “took the lives of two elderly, helpless people” and that he “assassinated them.”

“The obligation of people in a society, like ours, is to look after the vulnerable, to care for them, to cherish them, give them peace and comfort in their final years,” Gunn said in the Moncton, N.B., courtroom Thursday.

“You did the opposite. You stole from the Saulniers their final years, and you made their final moments ones of terror.”

The Saulniers were found dead in their home in Dieppe, N.B., on Sept. 7, 2019.

It had been the Crown’s assertion that their deaths were collateral damage in an attempted murder of their son as part of retribution for allegedly betraying a drug trafficking ring.

Their son, Sylvio, died in 2023 but police have said there was no criminality in his death.

RCMP announced the charges against Baker in 2023, on the fourth anniversary of the couple’s deaths. At the time the charges were laid, Baker was an inmate at the Atlantic Institution, a maximum-security corrections facility in Renous, N.B.

Baker is to serve two life sentences without eligibility for parole for 25 years. He will also be prohibited from possessing firearms and weapons for life and communicating with anyone who provided victim impact statements in court.

‘No words to describe the nightmare’

The couple’s son, Luc, told the courtroom his parents’ murders shattered the family’s lives.

“There are no words to describe the nightmare we, my wife Diane and I, have endured,” he said. “Nobody who lived the way they did should have to die the way they died.”

He said his parents were “loved by so many people.”

“Rose-Marie, who was often called Big Mama, was vibrant, she was active, and she was a critical support being for her family, her many friends and the clients she served as a naturopath,” he said.

“To have their lives brutally taken from us and the countless people who depended on their support, love and generosity is devastating and we will suffer from not only their loss, but how it occurred, for the rest of our lives.“

He went on to say he and his wife still have nightmares and are frightened on a daily basis.

“We put chairs against our doors, still, at night with an alarm system,” he said.

The Saulniers’ bodies were discovered by Nadine Vosburgh — Sylvio’s former girlfriend — who testified during the trial that she found the couple in their bedroom.

In her victim impact statement, which was read by a Crown lawyer, Vosburgh said she and her son now live in fear and have spent years in a crisis centre.

“I believe the trauma of discovering them will remain with me for the rest of my life,” she said.

When asked if he wanted to address the court, Baker said, “not really. It’s under appeal and I’ll have my day in court.”

Baker’s lawyer, Brian Munro, confirmed an appeal “is definitely going to be filed.”

“It can take some time; it’s a complicated case. There were a number of legal rulings, there were a number of rulings that, in my view, are problematic and probably, upon review, reversible,” Munro said.

In a statement, New Brunswick RCMP said their thoughts were with the couple’s family and friends and their “profound loss following this tragic crime.”

“From the outset of this horrific crime, investigators remained steadfast in their commitment to identifying those responsible and bringing them before the justice system,” the statement read.

“We hope that the conclusion of this investigation and the related legal proceedings has provided long-awaited answers and a measure of closure to the Saulnier family, their loved ones, and the broader community.”

— with a file from Global News’ Anna Mandin 

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Quebec’s ethic commissioner is recommending an $8,000 fine against a former Liberal member of the legislature for using her constituency resources for the 2025 Liberal leadership race.

Commissioner Ariane Mignolet says Sona Lakhoyan Olivier held partisan activities at her office last year to benefit Pablo Rodriguez, who eventually resigned the leadership in December.

Mignolet said her investigation found that Lakhoyan Olivier actively mobilized her staff to support Rodriguez’s candidacy by attending his events, working to sign up party members and making calls to appeal for votes.

The report also found that Lakhoyan Olivier tried to obstruct the commissioner’s investigation.

Lakhoyan Olivier was excluded from the party’s caucus in December and now sits as an Independent.

Liberal Leader Charles Milliard said today he accepts the commissioner’s report and won’t allow Lakhoyan Olivier to rejoin the party.

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