Okay, okay, okay! I hear you! Lemme make some amends here.

In spring 2026, I set out to explore alt-rock one-hit wonders. It was a five-episode series in six parts (very Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that) on the biggest songs of that sort since 1976, which is year zero for the whole alternative thing… more or less. Let’s not get bogged down here.

The first five episodes covered ten songs each, all ranked using a complicated logarithmic formula designed by my friend, Walter the mathematician. A lot of effort went into that top 50 list—but it wasn’t enough.

That’s where the sixth episode came in. It was an addendum, an erratum, really, of songs that maybe should have made it into the original top 50 list. Fine. I’m big enough to admit when I’ve made an error or left something out.

I did the sixth episode, and I thought, “Well, that’s over. We’re done here.” But apparently not. In the weeks and months that followed, I got hundreds of emails and DMs from people pointing out even more alt-rock one-hit wonders that should have made the cut.

This left me uneasy. The job wasn’t done, and I hate loose ends. So let’s do the one-hit-wonder thing one more time, incorporating some of those missed tracks. And I’ll explain why several acts who are thought to be one-hit wonders really aren’t.

So, clean-up on aisle three, I guess. Here we go…

Songs heard on this show:

• Voice of America, The Story of Love
• When in Rome, The Promise
• 4 Non-Blondes, What’s Up?
• Tripping Daisy, I Got a Girl
• Jars of Clay, Flood
• Primitive Radio Gods, Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
• Dog’s Eye View, Everything Falls Apart
• Len, Steal My Sunshine

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on these stations:

• 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7pm
• Q107/Toronto – Sunday night at 9pm
• Live 88-5/Ottawa – Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 6pm
• 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener – Sunday nights at 11pm
• FM96/London – Sunday nights at 8pm
• Power 97/Winnipeg – Sunday nights at 10am and 10pm
• 107-3 The Edge/Calgary – Sundays at 10am and 10pm
• Sonic 102.9/Edmonton – Sunday at 8am and 8pm
• The Zone/Victoria – Sunday at 9am and 9pm
• The Fox/Vancouver – Sundays at 10am and 10pm
• The Goat Network/Interior BC
• WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm

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An album can be both tremendously influential and a commercial failure—at least at first. Here are a tw0 examples.

The Clash’s London Calling came out in December 1979. It didn’t officially sell 500,000 copies until 1991, a gap of 12 years, despite hit singles like the title track and “Should I Stay or Should I Go.” It would finally go platinum five years later.

And The Ramones released their self-titled debut album on April 23, 1976. It launched a million punk bands, yet it didn’t sell its 500,000^th copy until May 2014, thirty-eight years after its release. By that time, three of the original Ramones had died, and within three months, the final one would pass away. The thing that sustained The Ramones for most of that time was relentless touring and t-shirt sales.

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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker had his psyche completely wrecked on September 19, 2008, when he was in a fiery crash of a private plane in South Carolina. He barely survived with severe burns to over 65% of his body.

He’d wanted to cancel this trip to stay home with the family, but he’d committed to a solo gig and couldn’t back out. As he left home, his three-year-old daughter was inconsolable, pleading that he not go. She said to him, “The roof’s gonna come off!”

When it came time to fly home, Travis called his father and said, “Pa, I have an awful feeling … like, I just don’t know. This plane’s small. I feel weird. Please make sure my kids are taken care of.” Less than an hour later, the plane crashed on takeoff, ripping away a large part of the fuselage.

No wonder Travis still has a fear of flying. Wouldn’t you?

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Doctors are urging women to consider removing their fallopian tubes as growing evidence suggests it could reduce the risk of developing ovarian cancer by roughly 80 per cent.

About 3,000 women in Canada are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year, and 2,000 of them will die, Dr. Elyse Lackie, an OB/GYN, told Global News.

But a highly effective procedure to remove the fallopian tubes, where most ovarian cancers are believed to develop — known as an opportunistic salpingectomy — is proving to be an effective preventative measure, she explained.

The procedure takes less than five minutes and is done on patients already undergoing surgery in the abdominal area and who don’t want children or have finished having children.

Ovarian cancer is particularly deadly because it is often caught in its later stages due to a lack of observable symptoms or accurate tests that help to catch it early, resulting in low survival rates and limited treatment options.

“Essentially you’re not gonna see it at all, you’re not going to feel it at all, until it’s really advanced and that’s often too late,” Lackie said.

According to a study at the University of British Columbia (UBC) earlier this year, removing the fallopian tubes leaves the ovaries intact, preserving important hormone production and leading to minimal side effects from the added procedure.

“This study clearly demonstrates that removing the fallopian tubes as an add-on during routine surgery can help prevent the most lethal type of ovarian cancer,” said co-senior author Dr. Gillian Hanley, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at UBC.

“It shows how this relatively simple change in surgical practice can have a profound and life-saving impact.”

Shaheen Mawani, who received the operation last year, told Global News it was an “opportune thing” that she went ahead with during a procedure to remove her uterus.

“This seemed like a brainer for me,” she said.

Dr. Peter Stotland, North York General Hospital Chief of Surgery, said the surgery will see “lives saved” alongside the avoidance of intensive chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical treatments.

“We’ve really put a concerted effort into getting this out there,” he said, so people are aware of the option, which adds very little time to abdominal area procedures that are already underway.

Lackie also called on the Canadian government to invest in the procedure through education and implementation of what she described as a “really simple” operation, with small financial costs that will save the system “so much money” in the long run if ovarian cancer can be prevented.

The opportunistic salpingectomy approach was developed and named by Dr. Dianne Miller, a gynaecologic oncologist with BC Cancer and Vancouver Coastal Health, and associate professor emerita at UBC.

“If there is one thing better than curing cancer, it’s never getting the cancer in the first place,” Miller said.

Symptoms of ovarian cancer can include constipation, bloating, early satiety after eating and back pain. It tends to occur in post menopausal women; though anyone can be at risk, according to the Mayo Clinic.

About 20 per cent of all ovarian cancers are caused by a genetic mutation that also affects a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

The cancer tends to respond well to chemotherapy and radiation but also has a high recurrence rate.

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Camp Mystic is facing a criminal investigation that could lead to manslaughter or negligent homicide charges, among others, after 25 girls and two teenage counsellors died during flash flooding that wiped out the camp last year.

Applications for search warrants that were executed last week and viewed by the Associated Press show that investigators sought to obtain the electronic communications of the camp’s owners, saying they could provide evidence of manslaughter, negligent homicide, child abandonment or other crimes.

No charges have been brought.

Texas Ranger Brant Johnston alleged in an affidavit that Camp Mystic had inadequate evacuation plans, failed to conduct emergency drills or training and that some cabins did not have enough adult staff. Its owners also neglected to take precautions when they didn’t relocate children from low-lying accommodations despite having monitored flood warnings, Johnston alleged, the U.S. agency reported.

Global News has not independently reviewed the affidavits.

“Young campers cannot reasonably be expected to independently recognize a rapidly developing, life-threatening hazard or to organize and execute an evacuation absent direction from an adequate number of adult supervisors,” Johnston wrote, the AP said.

“Camp Mystic, LLC was aware of and consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death to the campers in their care,” he concluded.

Twenty-five campers, two counsellors and the Christian girls’ camp owner, Richard Eastland, were killed when the banks of the Guadalupe River burst on July 4, 2025.

Eastland was killed while trying to evacuate a group of young girls in his truck. Many of the counsellors in charge of the dorms were teenagers and were left to make life-altering decisions without the guidance of adults, the Washington Post said in a report last July.

The camp was a generational institution for Texas families, who every summer for nearly 100 years had dropped off their girls to ride horses, canoe, fish and attend Bible studies.

The camp, which scrapped plans to reopen and welcome 900 girls this year —amid outrage from victims’ families and lawmakers — filed for bankruptcy in June.

“Bankruptcy will not stop all responsible parties from being held accountable,” Paul Yetter, a lawyer who represents multiple families of campers and counsellors who died at Camp Mystic, said in a statement at the time. “These innocent girls deserve justice.”

Victims’ families have also filed lawsuits accusing the camp of failing to protect the girls as powerful floodwaters approached; the body of Cecile Steward, an eight-year-old camper, has still not been found.

Her parents, Will and CiCi Steward, are suing the Eastland family over their handling of the disaster.

Two teenage counsellors had previously revealed to The Guardian that staff and campers were made to hand in their phones for the duration of their stay, meaning none of them had received news of the flood warnings.

All told, the destructive flooding killed at least 136 people along a several-mile stretch of the river.

At the time of the disaster, almost 700 girls were boarding at the camp.

— with files from the Associated Press

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A 30-year-old man is dead after a vehicle crashed into a Ottawa barber shop Tuesday in a suspected impaired-driving incident.

Ottawa police said its crews were called to CuTzz Barber Salon, located in the 100 block of McArthur Avenue, around 5:40 p.m. Sept. 22 for the crash. Two men inside the business were hurt after the vehicle crashed into it.

The 30-year-old man was critically injured and died on the way to the hospital, police said. A 32-year-old man was also taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

A 57-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and charged with impaired driving-related offences. She was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.

The identities of those involved were not released.

Police are asking anyone with information regarding the collision, or who may have cameras on their property or at home, or a dash cam that may have captured the incident, to contact them.

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The Toronto Zoo has another new arrival, and it is turning to the public to decide how to name the “little potato.”

In a social media post, the tourist attraction said its southern hairy-nosed wombat had given birth to a baby girl who needs a new name.

“She may still be cozy in mom’s pouch, but this little potato is getting braver every day and starting to peek out and explore her world,” Toronto Zoo wrote online.

The public will have until next week to vote on the best name for the new arrival.

The southern hairy-nosed wombat hails from Australia and can live for decades. In 2016, Toronto Zoo had a 34-year-old hairy-nosed wombat, claimed at the time to be the world’s oldest wombat.

Voting to name the zoo’s youngest wombat will close on Sept. 30.

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A 116-year-old single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is still standing almost one year after the city warned it was at risk of “imminent collapse,” but efforts to save the vacant building from demolition have been halted.

Following an Oct. 17, 2025 fire in one of the second-floor rooms, then Chief Building Official Saul Schwebs ordered the Summer Hotel in the historic Tweedale Block unsafe to occupy due to water damage.

Last December, city council declared 341 East Hastings Street a danger to public safety and ordered the owner to stabilize the building or tear it down.

At the time, the property owners commissioned their own engineering report, which claimed the building could be repaired.

But Robert Gallagher, the only remaining tenant, said municipal bureaucracy is preventing the owner from rebuilding her rooming house during a housing crisis.

“She’s willing to do the work. Why won’t they give us a permit? There (are) 36 rooms here available for people,” Gallagher told Global News in an interview.

Gallagher said he’s lived at the Summer Hotel on and off for two decades, and continued to stay in his room after the fire displaced the other tenants, because he wanted to keep watch and ensure the empty building was not broken into.

The City of Vancouver claims the owner, Thuan Phuoc Holdings, has undertaken work without permits, disturbing hazardous materials.

WorkSafeBC has issued two stop-work orders against Thuan Phuoc Holdings for structural safety concerns and potential asbestos.

An April 9 inspection report documented “ongoing structural movement” and noted a temporary shoring system was installed inside the building “without professional design, direction, or oversight and without permits.”

“There has been a little bit of work just to brace the building so it doesn’t come down any more,” Gallagher admitted.

WorkSafeBC said no work would be permitted until several compliance measures – including submitting a written report by a professional structural engineer confirming the building has been inspected and is structurally stable and safe for workers – were completed and accepted.

While Gallagher acknowledged floors have caved in on the ground level at the back of the building, he doesn’t believe the structure is unsafe.

“The floors have to be shored; we know this. Other than that, the building is fine,” he said.

The second stop work order was issued during a May 12 WorkSafeBC inspection, due to the “potential disturbance of suspected asbestos-containing material without appropriate assessment or controls”.

At that time, WorkSafeBC said prior to any work, a final inspection must be conducted by a qualified third party to ensure all asbestos-containing materials have been completely removed.

“There’s a lot of work that has to be done, we know this, but she can’t do it until there’s a permit,” Gallagher told Global News.

Heritage consultant Donald Luxton told Global News the city can’t just refuse a permit but would withhold one if work conditions are unsafe.

Luxton said work could certainly proceed if the WorkSafeBC conditions are addressed, adding that WorkSafeBC overrides the city of Vancouver process.

“If the owner is serious, they will have to follow due process,” he said Tuesday.

341 East Hastings is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register, and designated under the Single Room Accommodation (SRA) By-law regulating the alteration, conversion, and demolition of SRAs – often called SROs.

Luxton said it would be a very serious step if the city ordered demolition so he hopes the building owner is able to resolve the issues with permitting.

“The City cannot continue to ignore the situation if the owner won’t cooperate; however, it does not appear that there is a good reason to lose another salvageable Heritage Register building in the DTES (Downtown Eastside),” Luxton said.

Because the stop work orders are still in effect, the city told Global News Friday that the property owner must submit their work plan to WorkSafeBC before any new work can begin.

As of mid-August, WorkSafeBC said the employer(Thuan Phuoc Holdings Ltd.) was in the process of developing a procedure to address the outstanding safety concerns, and once that had occurred, it would review and lift the stop work order.

When asked Tuesday if the property owner had submitted a work plan, WorkSafe BC did not immediately respond.

“This place means a lot to me,” said Gallagher. “It’s basically my home, I guess you could say, and I don’t want to see it demolished for no good reasons.”

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Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says Canada is “advocating alongside our partners” on AI safety.

Solomon says he met with his international counterparts after Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke recently to other leaders about setting up a “technology stability” board to regulate AI.

But when he was asked whether Canada is taking a leadership role in those efforts, Solomon pointed to domestic legislation, including proposed regulations on AI chatbots.

He also said Canada is taking a “very leading” role by investing $150 million in Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio’s efforts to build a safer AI.

Bengio is set to address the UN Security Council today, which will also hear from major AI companies.

Warnings about the risks AI poses to humans, and documented cases of AI bots disregarding human instructions, have prompted global alarm in recent weeks.

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U.S. President Donald Trump claims Canada is “destroying itself” by allowing millions of people into the country “essentially unchecked and unvetted.”

In a social media post Wednesday, Trump said this is causing unspecified problems that “will soon be too big to handle” and described it as a “Liberal takeover that will end very badly.”

He said the immigration policy is already resulting in high unemployment numbers.

Trump provided no evidence for these claims.

Canada’s unemployment rate in August was 6.4 per cent. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 per cent last month.

Ottawa has reduced its immigration intake over the last two years after abandoning plans to work toward admitting 500,000 permanent residents annually. It also introduced targets for admissions of international students and temporary workers following sharp increases in both those populations.

Immigration Department data shows the number of temporary residents coming to Canada between January and July this year is 66 per cent lower than the number of arrivals over the same period in 2024, when reduction measures began.

Statistics Canada population estimates show Canada’s population growth has been flat recently due to reduced immigration, and the parliamentary budget officer expects zero population growth this year.

The Immigration Department’s website says all visitors, temporary foreign workers, students, immigrants and refugees undergo comprehensive security screening protocols and can be deemed inadmissible on grounds of security, human or international rights violations, or organized criminality.

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