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.

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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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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Sometimes you miss a big break by that much. Nirvana’s original drummer, Chad Channing, began to lose interest in the band in 1990 despite having just gone on a rather successful UK tour. He left before Nirvana’s Nevermind story began with Dave Grohl as the band’s drummer.

New Yardbirds bassist Chris Dreja decided he preferred photography and left the group, just as they were changing their name to a little band known as Led Zeppelin. A bassist named Tim Staffell walked out of a band called Smile he shared with a roommate in 1970. Staffell is a nice guy, though: he pointed to his flatmate, a fellow by the name of Freddie Mercury, in the direction of his eventual Queen bandmates.

Guitarist Keith Levene only lasted five shows with The Clash in ’76 and left a month before they broke out on The Sex Pistols’ Anarchy Tour. Unluckily enough, he also walked out of Public Image Limited two months before their they broke out commercially. Bad timing, Keith.

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When we go to a concert, we expect good sound.  But it wasn’t always that way. In the 60s and early 70s, PA systems used by bands at all levels were awful.  Even if you could hear anything, it certainly didn’t sound very good.

It wasn’t until the 1970s that bands insisted on better gear because fans were now demanding that they actually be able to make out what was being played onstage.  Groups had to sound just like their records.  Pioneers in this area were the Grateful Dead, the Eagles, Genesis, The Who and Pink Floyd.  They insisted on not only being loud, but clear–a pretty novel concept back in those days.

Today, sound systems are so sophisticated and computerized that it’s hard to tell what’s being played live and what’s pre-recorded.

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A growing use of artificial intelligence to alter the accents of call centre workers in real time is raising concerns among union leaders and academics, who warn the technology could mislead customers and affect Canadian jobs.

The issue is drawing scrutiny in Canada after labour representatives said at least one major domestic telecommunications company may be using the technology with offshore agents.

“We’re aware of at least one of the three big telco (companies using it to mask) the accents of offshore agents, altering how customers perceive who they’re talking to,” said Roch LeBlanc, telecommunications director for Unifor, in remarks to a parliamentary committee on April 30.

The “big three” are Rogers, Telus and Bell.

AI tools demonstrated online show how a speaker’s accent can be modified instantly, making English-as-a-second-language (ESL) speakers sound more like anglophones.

The Philippines and India are major global hubs for call centres serving North American companies, which are increasingly outsourcing such customer service operations to reduce costs.

A growing number of firms are turning to AI to make workers’ speech easier for customers to understand.

The Canadian Telecommunications Workers Alliance is flagging the practice at the federal level.

Renee Sieber, an associate professor at McGill University, said the technology may appear harmless but could have broader consequences.

“Here’s an application that a company may say is benign, but actually could be stealing Canadian jobs,” she said.

“It’s a kind of deception.”

Two major telecom companies, Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, both denied using AI in this way when asked by Global News. As of publishing, Telus had not responded to the same query.

The practice, however, appears to be expanding globally.

Teleperformance SE, the world’s largest call centre operator, is reportedly rolling out AI technology to “soften” the accents of Indian workers.

Supporters of the technology say the tools can improve communication.

“It is very hard sometimes when you’re on the line with someone and you can’t understand them and you want something done,” said Maura Grossman, a research professor at the University of Waterloo.

But critics argue the technology could increase outsourcing and reduce acceptance of different accents.

“You have to ask yourself, would (we) be doing this if it was (for an accent from) Australia or the U.K.?”  Grossman questioned.

“Because if the answer is no, then that sounds rather discriminatory.”

The federal government has yet to release its long-awaited national AI strategy, but has said it will address issues of transparency.

It remains unclear whether that would include requiring companies to disclose whether a voice has been altered or generated by AI.

For the full story, watch the video above.

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EDMONTON – James Obenauer-Fossett may have an Edmonton Oilers tattoo on his shoulder, but for this playoff run the Habs have his allegiance.

He and other hockey fans across Canada are rallying behind the Montreal Canadiens, the last team standing north of the border in the hunt for the NHL’s Stanley Cup.

Montreal’s second-round series against the Buffalo Sabres begins Wednesday night. If they win it all, they would be the first Canadian team to capture the Cup since 1993, when Montreal defeated the Los Angeles Kings in the final.

That would be just fine with Obenauer-Fossett, whose loyalty to the Oilers is dipped in ink — he has a tattoo of Oilers mascot Hunter the Lynx.

“It’s been 30 years since the Cup has been back in Canada, and it would be nice to have it back,” he said.

“It doesn’t matter which Canadian team is going for it. I’ll cheer for any Canadian team.”

The shift hits hard in Edmonton, where the Oilers came oh so close to the Cup in the last two years, only to get dispatched in the first round this spring by the Anaheim Ducks.

“Obviously it hurts right now,” said 22-year-old fan Naseer Hussain in Edmonton.

He’s usually an Oilers fan but said it’s only fair he gets behind Montreal, like so many Canadians did for the Oilers in their recent back-to-back runs in the Cup final.

“We want to bring that Cup home back to Canada, where the Cup began its journey. Because this is where it belongs. It’s important that we unite.”

In Canada, making the leap from cheering for the hometown team to the Canadiens is not, for some, a gigantic shift in allegiance. NHL rinks across the country are regularly inundated with fans cheering for the Bleu, Blanc et Rouge.

Robert Hing has lived in Calgary for two decades, but the 49-year-old has yet to adopt the hometown Flames as his team.

“I like to say I was born with the Habs crest on my chest,” said the Canadiens fan. Born in Ontario, he considered Montreal a second home until he was drawn to Calgary by a girl who has maintained her title as a Flames fan.

Hing went to Montreal last week to watch in person as the Habs lost a 1-0 overtime heartbreaker to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of their first-round series.

On Sunday, he hung around the city to watch Montreal put only nine shots on net yet still upset the Lightning to win Game 7.

“The game didn’t look like it was going our way, but when (Alex) Newhook scored that (game-winning) goal, you could just feel this eruption. I didn’t sit down after that,” Hing said.

“There’s only about eight minutes left in the game, everybody watching was just living and dying on every single play.

“So much tension but so much joy at the end of it.”

Winnipeg is also home to many Canadiens fans who make their presence known. They filled so many of the seats for a Canadiens-Jets game in Winnipeg in February, Jets coach Scott Arniel said he was disappointed at the large number of red jerseys in the seats.

In the city’s largely francophone St. Boniface neighbourhood, Habs games make for busy nights at the Pregame Sports Bar and Lounge.

“We get Canadiens fans. We are in a French community. We get a lot of them, but everybody should bet on the Canadiens right now,” owner Tyler Evans said.

The bar is primarily focused on the Jets, Evans said, but Winnipeg didn’t make the playoffs, so the bar has been offering discounts, including $5 drinks, during playoff games involving Canadian teams. The response in the first round during Oilers, Senators and Canadiens games was strong, Evans said.

The happy-hour pricing runs as long as the games do, and only when a team based in Canada is on the ice. With Edmonton and Ottawa eliminated, that leaves Montreal games.

“If we go to triple overtime, we run that $5 drinks all the way through,” Evans said.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 6, 2026.

— With files from Steve Lambert in Winnipeg and Dayne Patterson in Calgary

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TORONTO – DaVaris Daniels has called it a career.

The veteran CFL receiver announced his retirement Tuesday night via social media. The 33-year-old native of Vernon Hills, Ill., played nine seasons with the Calgary Stampeders (2016-18), Edmonton Elks (2019) and Toronto Argonauts (2021-25), winning three Grey Cups.

“I have felt the highest this game has to offer and I have felt what it’s like to lose it all,” Daniels wrote “But through every setback I found perseverance. I found gratitude.

“Nothing in life is ever promised. And through my faith I can see clearly now that God was preparing me for what was about to come. Things may not always happen when or the way you want them to — but he is always right and he is always right on time. I came out the other side grateful. Grateful to be on a team. Grateful to compete. Grateful for every single day I got to play this game.”

The six-foot, 203-pound DaVaris Daniels didn’t divulge what might lie ahead for him.

“As one chapter closes I step into what’s next carrying everything this game gave me — character, perspective, resilience and a gratitude for life that I never could have found any other way,” he said.

Before coming to the CFL, Daniels spent time in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots in 2015.

Daniels came by his football acumen honestly. His father Phillip Daniels, was a defensive end in the NFL for 15 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks (1996-1999), Chicago Bears (2000-2003) and Washington Redskins (2004-10).

After retiring as a player, the elder Daniels spent time in Washington’s front office before getting into coaching. He earned a Super Bowl ring in 2018 as an assistant with the Philadelphia Eagles and was the defensive line coach last season with the Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

He’s currently in the same role with the Ottawa Redblacks.

The former Notre Dame star appeared in 125 career regular-season games, registering 444 catches for 6,609 yards and 43 touchdowns. Daniels best CFL season was in 2022 with Toronto when he had a career-best 61 catches.

The following season, Daniels recorded his only 1,000-yard receiving campaign (1,009).

Daniels was the CFL’s top rookie in 2016 while with Calgary. His Grey Cup wins came with the Stampeders (2018) and Toronto (2022, 2024).

“To the city of Calgary — you brought me back to life when I needed it most and I will never forget that,” he said. “To the city of Toronto — thank you for embracing me and making me feel at home.

“To my teammates, my family and every single fan who rode with me through this journey — I felt every bit of your support and I am deeply grateful. And above all, thank you to God for never letting me quit.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 5, 2026.

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The RM of Ste. Anne, Man., is shocked after an aggravated assault led to the death of a father and respected chef.

Friends confirmed to Global News that the victim was 49-year-old Cameron Huley.

RCMP say they responded late Saturday to a residence in Ste. Anne, taking the victim to the hospital where he died from injuries a few hours later.

The incident is now being investigated as a homicide.

“I can’t understand or justify how that could happen to somebody that was so kind and so cared about by everybody,” Laurencelle said.

Huley’s friend, Reg Deschambault, will remember him as a father and a person who loved feeding those around him.

“That’s why he was always doing pancake breakfasts, that’s how he could give back to the community,” Deschambault said. “That’s how I learned things from him, too, through cooking.”

The community is concerned that no arrest has been made three days after the death. Rumours of what happened and who’s responsible have circulated through Ste. Anne and the area as a whole.

After multiple requests on Tuesday, RCMP would provide no additional information to Global News about the assault or investigation, asking the public and media for patience during the investigation.

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The sounds of drums filled downtown Kelowna, B.C., Tuesday morning as part of a national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.

Kelowna’s Red Dress event was organized by the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society but took place across B.C., Canada and beyond.

“Today is just an important day to think about all the missing and murdered Indigenous women and teach our children how important it is,” said Mary Jobe, who attended the Kelowna event with her daughter.

Many in the large crowd wore red to mark the national day of awareness

“I don’t think settler Canadians have taken much accountability yet,” said attendee David Jefferess. “We have a lot of work to do as settler Canadians to stop this violence.”

Many people in attendance also held photos of people they didn’t know personally but who never came home.

“This is Cecilia and she’s a little girl that went missing in Vancouver back in 1989,” Jobe said pointing to the young face in the poster she held.  “This whole time no one knows where these girls are, what happened to them.”

The event included a march through the downtown core and along Highway 97 to the steps of the Kelowna Courthouse.

Advocates say there is an urgent need for changes and better supports to reduce violence they say remains disproportionately high among Indigenous women and girls.

“Indigenous women make up 4.3 per cent of the population in Canada, yet account for 16 per cent of the of the homicide victims, also known as femicide, and 11 per cent of missing women, ” said Angela Marie MacDougall, executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services.  “That’s disproportionate to the population.”

Community leaders say the statistics are tied to deep-rooted systemic issues.

“The historical piece is the reason why Indigenous women and girls were targeted is because no one looked for them because this system, there was systemic racism where they weren’t seen as important or valued members of society,” said Christina Verhagen, executive director of  the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society.

While some progress has been made, many say much more is needed including action on the National Inquiry’s Calls for Justice made nearly seven years ago.

“We haven’t moved on those recommendations for the National Inquiry and it’s something that we continue to push for,” MacDougall said. “It matters a lot.”

The recommendations include changes to health care, social services and policing so that for Indigenous communities have stronger supports.

“Healing starts with acknowledgement. We have to see the pain, we have to feel the pain in order to heal,” said Verhagen.

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The man who has lived in Stanley Park for more than 30 years is being evicted.

Vancouver Park Board crews spent most of Tuesday removing debris from Christenson Bailey’s forest home, where he has been set up since 1990.

Everything about Bailey’s campsite was simple yet functional when Global News first met him.

Most of it was constructed using old fishing nets and ropes discarded from nearby marinas. The layers of tarps kept it waterproof and he had a small wooden box for essential supplies such as flashlights, loaves of bread, and a charging pack for his phone.

To protect from the elements, he had a blanket and four sleeping bags — good for “20 below,” he said.

The encampment took up less space than a camper trailer.

But Bailey is now in his 70s and Park Board crews say that Stanley Park’s looper moth infestation doesn’t offer him as much protection from the trees anymore.

“We had given the individual lots of opportunity to find space, and we’ll continue to do that,” Amit Gandha, the Vancouver Park Board parks director, said.

“But we had given notice that we needed to move on this. We’re talking truckloads and truckloads, where there’s going to be so much debris, and some of it, we don’t even know what the materials are, so we’re kind of going through that piece as well at the park.”

Housing options have been presented to Bailey over the years, but it is unclear at this time where he will end up living.

Bailey declined to speak on camera on Tuesday, but remained in the park to watch the dismantling of his long-term home.

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