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.

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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.

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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.

More on lip-syncing next time.

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In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne volunteered to be evaluated by doctors. They wanted to learn why, given everything he’d put himself through with drugs, alcohol, and everything else, he wasn’t dead.

When the results came back, it was discovered that his genome had mutated from all the drugs he’d taken. His DNA contained variants that no scientists had ever seen before. Things that would have killed a normal person were just shrugged off.

The findings were so abnormal that they were presented at a prestigious medical conference, positioning Ozzy as an anomalous medical specimen. This is how Ozzy managed to make it to 76.

Keith Moon, another madman, didn’t have these genes, which is why he died at 32. Same thing with Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and scores of other hard-partying rockers who died young.

Now consider Keith Richards. As I sit here, he is 82. He’s still playing guitar, still recording, and still performing live with The Rolling Stones. If Ozzy was a medical curiosity, I don’t know what Keef is.

And it’s not just the drugs and alcohol. It’s all the other things he’s done, gone through, and survived.

This is Episode 65 of “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry.” Call it “The Life and Crimes of Keith Richards, Part 1.”
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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.

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Montreal Canadiens fans briefly carried “The Star-Spangled Banner” after the microphone cut out before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final against the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday.

Quebec singer Éléonore Lagacé and three backup vocalists began singing the American national anthem with no sound coming from the speakers.

The spectators at the Bell Centre then picked up the lyrics for about five seconds before the microphones came back on.

A stirring rendition of “O Canada” followed as Lagacé paused to exclaim “êtes-vous prêts, Montreal!” — which translates to “are you ready, Montreal!” — before hitting her final note.

Monday’s brief carrying of the anthem contrasted with last year’s Bell Centre reception for “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as fans loudly booed the anthem amid political tensions before a Canada-U.S. game at the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in Montreal.

The response also comes less than a month after fans at KeyBank Center in Buffalo sang “O Canada” when a microphone failed before the Sabres and Boston Bruins played Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 25, 2026.

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The family and friends of a Surrey boy who is living with a rare neurodegenerative disorder arrived at the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Monday morning after walking 120 km from Downtown Vancouver.

Navpreet and Stalin Gill told Global News in April that they began to notice their now three-year-old son, Gurmoh, having mobility issues around age one.

It wasn’t until he was about three that Gurmoh was diagnosed with Spastic Paraplegia Type 4, which causes stiffness and weakness in the legs.

Their five-year-old daughter does not have the condition and Gurmoh is believed to be the only case in Canada.

A team of researchers at McGill University in Montreal has agreed to help treat this condition, as they have treated a similar condition, and to develop gene therapy.

But the cost is anticipated to be around $8 million.

The family decided to do the walk to raise money and awareness and to get the attention of B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne.

“The reason we chose to walk, it’s not easy,” Navpreet said on Monday.

“Walking from Canada Place Vancouver all the way to Victoria is not easy. We have blisters on our feet. We have cramps in our legs. But those blisters and cramps do not hurt. They give us more strength, they give us more power, because we know the final reason is the hope for our child, treatment for our child.”

Osborne said she has no news to deliver at this point.

“These are experimental therapies and again, I think we all wish that things could be in existence today and there is remarkable research that’s taking place. We’re on the cutting edge of all kinds of scientific advancement. We’re seeing that in rare diseases around the world,” she said.

“But in this case, we all want to do everything we can as quickly as possible, and we’ve got to follow through with these steps, which is why we’re doing the work to understand it.”

Osborne met with the Gill family on Monday afternoon.

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A Toronto woman, who left her elderly and frail mother sitting on the floor in feces and urine for three days before calling 911, has been found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life, criminal negligence causing death, and manslaughter.

Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly stated that 73-year-old Eva Samonas, who was the primary caregiver for 96-year-old Vasiliki Atanasovksi, had a legal duty to her mother and she failed to perform that duty.

Furthermore, Kelly found Samonas showed a reckless disregard for her mother’s life and her conduct caused her mother’s death.

Atanasovski was diagnosed with dementia in 2017 and her daughter had been listed as her emergency contact and next of kin since. Samonas quit her job at the University Health Network (UHN) and moved in with her mother prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to care for her as she was unable to be left alone.

“Ms. Atanasovski had no contact with the world outside of her home other than medical appointments (which were non-existent after 2022) and infrequent walks around the neighbourhood, to the mall or to Sobeys accompanied by Ms. Samonas,” Kelly wrote in her reasons for judgment.

“Further, no one could see into the home from the street because the windows were covered in paper. As such, the only person who could identify that Ms. Atanasovski required help was Ms. Samonas as Ms. Atanosovski could not do so herself. Ms. Atanasovski was isolated and reliant on Ms. Samonas.”

The two women shared a home on Broadview Avenue in Toronto. The court heard that on Jan. 4, 2024, Atanasovski fell from the couch to the hardwood floor in the living room. Samonas attempted to lift her mother from the floor and could not do so.

Samonas asked three people for help on Jan. 4 and 5 and all three people consulted recommended that Samonas call 911, but she did not.

“It was only on Jan. 6, 2024 when Ms. Samonas noticed that her mother’s right arm was cold, her knee was swollen and she was mumbling that she called 911. This was three days after her fall,” Kelly told the court.

When paramedics arrived, Atanasovski was found lying naked on the hardwood floor. Evidence states there was urine and feces both on the floor and on Atanasovski. The home was cluttered, dirty and unkempt, resembling a home occupied by hoarders.

Kelly said because the home was so cluttered, paramedics called for the assistance of the fire department to take Ms. Atanasovski to the ambulance.

When EMS and a member of the fire department rolled Atanasovki on to her side, they observed significant injuries. A large lower back open wound (a pressure ulcer) was black in colour. It was so deep that the sacral and coccyx bones were exposed, Kelly stressed.

Other parts of her back were red, likely cause by urinary or fecal soiling. Evidence stated there was a horrible smell emanating from Atanasovski that was overwhelming.

Atanasovski was taken to Michael Garron Hospital where she died the following day. A paramedic suspected a case of elder abuse and alerted the Toronto Police Service. Samonas was arrested in hospital.

The cause of death was described as “complications of prolonged immobility in a woman with pulmonary thromboembolism and atherosclerotic heart disease.” Various injuries that led to Atanasovski’s death can be traced to the pressure ulcer that developed on her back because of her prolonged immobility from Jan. 4 to 6, 2024, Kelly found.

Kelly said that by Jan. 4, 2024, Samonas was aware of her mother’s frailties and had called 911 in the past when her mother went missing. “She had accessed medical care in the past but did not do so at the critical time,” she said.

“The fact that Ms. Samonas did not phone 911 when her aging and frail mother fell and became immobile and then failed to provide her mother with basic care for the next three days, was a failure to provide the necessaries of life, thus endangering her mother’s life.”

Crown attorneys Matthew Boissonneault and Christine Jenkins told Kelly they are asking for a pre-sentence report. Jenkins said depending on the finding of the report, they may ask for a Mental Health Act assessment.

Outside of court, Boissonneault and Jenkins indicated they would be seeking a custodial sentence only on the manslaughter conviction, claiming the elements of the offences overlap.

Samonas, who was self-represented, broke down in tears after court and said she is in shock. She said she believes the first paramedic who testified about her mother’s condition was exaggerating. She also repeated what she told court when she testified, that her mother did not want to go to the hospital and she was not in distress.

“She kept saying, ‘If I go to the hospital, they’re going to kill me.’ And I kept saying, ‘No they’ll take care of you.’ ‘No, no. no, I’m going to die there. I’d rather die here.’ She did not want to go to the hospital,” Samonas said.

Aaron Wine, who acted as amicus for Samonos, told Global News that she could also serve a sentence in the community.

The lawyers will return to court in August to set a date for the sentencing hearing.

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Refugee advocacy groups are raising concerns about what they describe as a surge in deportations in Quebec that is separating families, including those with young children.

At a news conference Monday, a coalition of advocates, lawyers and politicians said they are aware of at least eight cases in the past month in which families in Quebec were targeted by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers, often resulting in one parent being removed.

They allege the practice is disproportionately affecting Quebec compared with other provinces and are calling on the federal government to intervene.

Advocates described the deportations as unnecessarily harsh, accusing border officials of acting quickly and without regard for the impact on children.

In one case cited, a breastfeeding mother from Guinea was separated from her five-month-old baby with little explanation.

“The person will not be with their daughter when they learn how to walk, when they learn how to eat, when they have their first friends, when they lose their first tooth,” said Anne Cécile Khouri-Raphael, vice-president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

“The impact (on children) is long lasting — it’s medical, it’s psychological,” she said.

Advocates say more than half of all deportations carried out in Canada last year took place in Quebec, though they say federal officials have not explained why.

Maryse Poisson of the Welcome Collective said her group sent a letter last week to Ottawa requesting an urgent review of CBSA practices in the province.

“This is completely insane. Those families have to go and spend $3,000 to go to Federal Court. This should not happen,” she said.

The groups also point to a shortage of legal support, estimating there are only about 300 refugee and immigration lawyers in Quebec to handle a growing number of cases.

Poisson said separating children from their parents should never be an option. “It has a horrific impact on children who will grow up without their parents,” she said.

The CBSA did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.

Advocates say they are urging the federal government to halt such deportations before more families are torn apart.

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Premiers from Canada’s four western provinces and the three territories are meeting in Kananaskis Country, west of Calgary, this week.

While the leaders have lots to talk about, it is the possibility of Alberta separatism that looms over the meetings.

The gathering, which Nunavut Premier John Main will participate in virtually, comes just days after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced her government will be holding a referendum in October that could set the stage for Alberta’s separation from Canada.

British Columbia Premier David Eby, who has been butting heads with Smith over her desire for a new pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast, said he’s wondering why they are meeting in Alberta to talk co-operation when the host premier wants to test separation.

“To say that this is the worst time to begin testing the bonds that hold this country together is a significant understatement,” said Eby.

“It empowers the people who would break our country up and sell us for parts.”

Eby called Smith’s plans to hold the October vote “reckless,” and said this week’s meeting of western and northern political leaders was supposed to be about addressing internal trade barriers, issues around national defence and economic corridors.

“These topics seem at best confusing, if not totally awkward in light of the referendum question that Premier Smith has put forward,” he said.

On Monday, the B.C. premier also reiterated his opposition to an oil pipeline to the north coast of B.C., saying the ban on oil tanker traffic in the area cannot be compromised on.

Alberta’s referendum plans were announced as the Smith government moves closer to submitting a proposal to build a new pipeline to the coast by July.

It’s part of an agreement Ottawa has with Alberta that also includes more relaxed carbon pricing for the province.

There isn’t a private proponent yet and industry experts say the referendum adds more uncertainty for potential investors.

“We know that companies don’t like to make decisions when there’s uncertainty and separating isn’t going to help that,”  said Richard Masson, former CEO of the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission.

“The industry has been trying to find better market access and this is counter to that.”

While Smith said she’s looking forward to working with Eby this week, she also levelled some criticism of her own, reiterating her claims that political leaders across the country have fomented separatism in Alberta by throwing hurdles in the way of the province’s oil industry.

She has pointed the finger at her old nemesis, former prime minister Justin Trudeau, Liberal MPs in Ottawa, federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis and leadership in B.C.

On Monday, she singled out Eby and several former premiers.

“It’s not only the current premier, but John Horgan, and Christy Clark — it goes back a long way,” said Smith, who accused them of stifling the construction of critical infrastructure to the West Coast.

“These ports are not British Columbia’s ports. They’re Canada’s ports.”

Despite Smith changing her own citizen initiative laws multiple times in the past year to clear the way for a separatist petition, Smith has argued that the push to secede didn’t emerge overnight.

“You get there because of successive barriers to us being able to realize our economic prosperity and be able to attract investment and be able to govern ourselves,” she said.

“I think that there just needs to be self-reflection.”

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also weighed in on the referendum on Monday, saying he believes Smith didn’t have a choice but to announce the vote under her provincial law.

“We have 10 years of unconsulted, harmful policy by the previous prime minister,” he said.

While Moe said he aligns closely with Smith’s position on Alberta remaining in Canada, as the premier of Saskatchewan, he said it’s not for him to judge Albertans.

–with files from The Canadian Press

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