If there’s an official mission statement for the kind of music we all love, it’s “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll.” These are the three main food groups in this world.
All three of these things affect the same portions of the brain: the amygdala, the nucleus accumbens, and the cerebellum. All of them are involved in the secretion and regulation of dopamine, the “feel-good” hormone.
Dopamine is a very addictive hormone. Whenever our brains squirt it out, the body goes, “This is good! I want more!” It happens when we hear a great song. It happens with certain drugs and alcohol, which is the basis of addiction. And it happens with an orgasm.
Once you’re inside this bubble, you may find things rather permissive. As long as you’re producing, people will look the other way. There’s no one to tell you “no.” And it doesn’t take long for some people to get lost in this world, coming to believe that normal rules of polite society don’t apply. You’re special—meaning that you can do anything.
That’s when your judgment starts to become suspect. And that’s when things start to get strange. How strange? Well…
Welcome to a show all about rock’n’roll and weird tales of rock’n’roll sex.
Songs heard on this show:
Berlin, Sex (I’m a…)
David Bowie/Mick Jagger, Dancing in the Streets
Alanis Morissette, You Oughta Know
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication
Missing Persons, Destination Unknown
Ramones, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Rammstein, Du Hast
REM, Can’t Get There from here
INXS, Suicide Blonde
Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.
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Being in a touring rock band is fun at first but then moving from gig to gig, city to city and venue to venue can get real old real fast. You get lonely and bored and start feeling that you’re a rat on some kind of never-ending treadmill. This explains the vast array of road songs that bands feel compelled to write, such as the Arctic Monkeys’ “Despair in the Departure Lounge.”
Life on the road can even result in a certain type of psychosis. One of the best examples of this is a dude name Luke Haines, a member of the Auteurs and a band called Black Box Recorder. Rather than agreeing to go on yet another European tour, he deliberately stepped off a 15-foot high wall. When he hit the ground, he shattered both ankles. He got his wish: he didn’t have to go on tour but he did spend weeks in a wheelchair.
One of Phoenix’s biggest songs is “Lisztomania” from their 2009 album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. But what are they talking about in that song?
It references Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer who was at his peak in the 1840S. Although we’re talking classical music, he was so big that he’s been called “the world’s first rock star.”
There are stories about how women would fight over his used handkerchiefs and would generally lose their minds wherever he appeared. When Liszt performed in Paris, a literary critic named Heinrich Heine came up with the term “Lisztomania” to describe his frenzied following.
The topic of Franz Liszt at the world’s first rock star comes up every once in a while. In 1975, Roger Daltrey of The Who starred in a Ken Russell film called Lisztomania. It’s pretty surreal and weird, but if you want to go deeper into the story of an unconventional classical music composer, it might be worth your time.
Related: Business News: Canada's unemployment rate rises to 6.7%
Unemployment is on the rise in Kelowna as businesses are forced to make difficult decisions amid current economic conditions.
The Salt and Brick restaurant, once a thriving dining spot in downtown Kelowna, closed for good last month after the owner cited a tough business climate.
“It just didn’t make business sense to be open any longer,” said owner Casey Greabeiel on Sept. 26, just days head of the closure.
It’s just one example of people losing work in a city where unemployment is soaring.
“It’s always concerning to see unemployment rise in small-business-dependent communities like Kelowna,” said Ryan Mitton, B.C.’s legislative affairs director with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
According to Statistics Canada, the jobless rate in the Kelowna area rose to 9.3 per cent in October, an increase of 2.2 per cent in just one month.
Kelowna’s jobless rate is now worse than it was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the cities surveyed, it’s the second highest in B.C. after Kamloops.
Construction, tourism and agriculture are said to be among the sectors being hard hit.
While the trade war is having an impact, according to Mitton, so is the government’s high cost of doing business.
“At the same time that small businesses are trying to compete with Trump’s tariffs, they’re also facing high taxes here at home,” Mitton said. “And really that’s what elected officials need to start focusing on if we’re going to start cracking down on some of these unemployment numbers.”
The numbers are vastly different in other parts of the province, namely Victoria, where the unemployment rate factually fell slightly to 4.2 per cent last month.
“The difference between Victoria and Kelowna is a tale of two cities,” said Gavin Dew, Conservative MLA for Kelowna-Mission.
Dew blamed the disparity on the NDP government and on what he calls bad policies.
“What really worries me is the disconnect between a growing public sector and an anemic private sector,” Dew said. “We have strong employment in Victoria and families feeling secure, and here in Kelowna, we have rising unemployment, and we have families feeling the pinch.”
While saying it understand the concerns, the ministry of jobs and economic growth stated, “In the days ahead we’ll be launching our next steps for creating jobs and prosperity.
“The plan will focus on delivering major projects, strengthening key sectors and ensuring people have the skills they need in the future of our economy, ” the ministry added.
It’s the kind of government support many say can’t come soon enough.
“One in five small businesses in B.C. say they cannot continue for another six months at this current rate,” Mitton said. “They will have to start making tough choices about laying off staff or shutting down altogether.”
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More than 1,200 delegates from more than 260 cities, towns and villages across the province are in Calgary this week for the 2025 Alberta Municipalities Convention and Trade Show, with some communities seeking provincial property tax reform.
The annual conference includes networking and workshops for local officials, but it’s also a chance for communities to put forward resolutions on issues of interest and concern to local leaders.
“If a resolution comes to the floor and it’s voted on and it’s approved, it becomes a priority issue for our organization to conduct advocacy on that resolution,” said Alberta Municipalities chief executive officer Dana Mackie.
Among the 14 resolutions up for debate is a call from the Town of Rocky Mountain House for the province to take over collection of provincial education property taxes, which are currently collected by municipalities on annual tax bills.
It comes after the provincial government increased how much revenue it takes in from the education property tax by 14.8 per cent, to $3.1 billion, with a target of $3.6 billion by 2027.
The resolution argues that increases in the education tax requisition can lead to “misunderstandings among taxpayers regarding municipal tax increases.”
“Every time there’s a tax increase, people are upset about it,” said newly elected Rocky Mountain House mayor Shane Boniface. “I don’t want to be taking the brunt for what the provincial government is doing.”
Collection of the provincial education property tax also places financial risk and burden of tax collection on local administrations, the resolution said.
Earlier this year, Calgary’s previous mayor and city council sent the Government of Alberta an invoice for $10 million in an effort to recoup the costs of collecting the provincial share of property taxes.
“I think there needs to be some accountability within the province to be able to take this on,” said Rebecca Wells, deputy mayor at the Town of Mayerthorpe, which seconded the resolution. “We do the books, we do the work for them and yet we’re the ones who get the residents who are upset.”
The increase in the provincial education property tax resulted in Edmontonians paying an additional $92 per year.
In Calgary, the provincial requisition was more than $1 billion, and resulted in an additional $239 per year for homeowners.
The typical single-family homeowner in Calgary saw a property tax increase of $29.25 per month this year, however, budget documents show just $11 of that monthly increase was going to the City of Calgary with the rest going to the province.
Calgary mayor Jeromy Farkas said he would “strongly support” a measure to reform how provincial property taxes are collected.
“When huge increases have been made to the education tax, the provincial portion, it’s absolutely right for Calgarians to ask where that money is going,” he said Wednesday.
In a statement to Global News, Alberta’s municipal affairs minister Dan Williams said municipalities in Alberta have collected education property taxes on behalf of the province for decades, and that it is “not a new responsibility.”
“These funds are a critical and transparent source of revenue that help support the operating costs of schools in every community across the province,” Williams said.
However, Williams added the province is considering “what role a new provincial tax collection agency could play in shifting the collection of property taxes to the province,” as part of work underway by the Alberta Next Panel.
Rocky Mountain House’s resolution will mark the fourth time since 2011 that Alberta Municipalities have debated reforms to provincial property tax collection, with the most recent resolution from the Town of Drayton Valley on the matter approved in 2020.
“Nothing gets solved quickly in politics,” Boniface said. “It could take a few years to get there, but if we don’t keep trying we’ll never get there.”
The resolution will be up for a vote at the conference on Thursday, which will also include a session with remarks from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
London Knights goalie Aleksei Medvedev makes back-to-back stops on Nathan Aspinall in a game between London and the Flint Firebirds on Nov. 12, 2025.
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The London Knights were not able to overcome an early 2-0 deficit and fell 3-2 to the Flint Firebirds on Nov. 12 at the Dort Financial Centre in Flint, Mich.
Flint scored twice in the opening period on a beautiful move to the net by L.A. Kings prospect Jimmy Lombardi and a wrist shot by Kaden Pitre on a two-on-one.
The Firebirds took that lead into the second period.
Aleksei Medvedev faced 19 first-period shots in total and made two huge saves very early as he stopped a two-on-one and then a two-man breakaway in the first one minute and 49 seconds.
Medvedev made 33 saves in all and was named the game’s third star.
The Knights came out creating chances in the second. Braiden Clark rang a puck off a post and then Brody Cook found a hole through Flint goaltender Mason Vaccari for his first OHL goal to cut the Firebirds lead to 2-1.
Rylan Cunningham restored a two-goal lead for Flint at 18:10 of the second period as he found a rebound of a good Medvedev save and poked it in to make it 3-1 for the Firebirds.
London got to within one a second time when Andoni Fimis deflected a Linus Funck point shot past Vaccari at 9:42 of the third period but that is as close as the Knights would get.
Flint outshot London 36-28.
The Knights were 0-for-3 on the power play and 1-for-1 on the penalty kill. They’ve now killed off 11 consecutive opposition power plays.
Jake Ritson named GOHL Prospect of the Week
London Knights prospect Jake Ritson has been having himself a season with the Strathroy Rockets. The 16-year-old leads Strathroy in scoring with 27 points in 18 games and ranks third overall in scoring among GOHL rookies. The 5th-round pick of the Knights from Thunder Bay played a great deal of hockey in Winnipeg growing up and had five points in two games on his way to earning GOHL Prospect of the Week honours.
Sam Dickinson and Sharks surging
Former Knights defenceman Sam Dickinson dragged a puck behind the San Jose Sharks net in overtime on Nov. 11 and drew a Minnesota Wild forward to him. Then Dickinson send a soft pass straight up the left side of the ice with the touch of a quarterback laying out a ball for a receiver to run under. Macklin Celebrini skated ahead to the puck and then fed Colin Graf for the game winner as San Jose earned their fourth consecutive victory. San Jose is 6-0-1 in their past seven games and currently sitting in a playoff spot. The Sharks last made the NHL post-season in 2019.
Up next
London will return home for a pair of weekend games as they host Owen Sound on Friday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m., at Canada Life Place.
The Knights edged the Attack 3-2 in a shootout in Owen Sound on Nov. 8.
London and Sault Ste. Marie will meet for the first time this year on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m.
The Greyhounds are 12-8-1 so far in 2025-26.
Coverage will start at 6:30 p.m., on Nov. 14 and at 1:30 p.m., on Nov. 16 on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.
WATCH: The full U.S. government shutdown caused by a funding lapse on Oct. 1 officially came to an end on Wednesday. Reggie Cecchini reports.
The House passed a bill Wednesday to end the nation’s longest government shutdown, sending the measure to President Donald Trump for his signature after a historic 43-day funding lapse that saw federal workers go without multiple paychecks, travelers stranded at airports and people lining up at food banks to get a meal for their families.
House lawmakers made their long-awaited return to the nation’s capital this week after nearly eight weeks away. Republicans used their slight majority to get the bill over the finish line with a mostly party-line vote of 222-209. The Senate has already passed the measure.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., heads from his office to the chamber for the final vote to bring the longest government shutdown in history to an end, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Democrats wanted to extend an enhanced tax credit expiring at the end of the year that lowers the cost of health coverage obtained through Affordable Care Act marketplaces. They refused to go along with a short-term spending bill that did not include that priority. But Republicans said that was a separate policy fight to be held at another time.
“We told you 43 days ago from bitter experience that government shutdowns don’t work,” said Rep. Tom Cole, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. “They never achieve the objective that you announce. And guess what? You haven’t achieved that objective yet, and you’re not going to.”
The shutdown magnified the stark partisan divisions within Congress, and that split screen was reflected when lawmakers debated the spending measure on the House floor.
Republicans said Democrats sought to use the pain generated by the shutdown to prevail in a policy dispute.
“They knew it would cause pain and they did it anyway,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
Democrats said Republicans raced to pass tax breaks earlier this year that they say mostly will benefit the wealthy. But the bill before the House Wednesday “leaves families twisting in the wind with zero guarantee there will ever, ever be a vote to extend tax credits to help everyday people pay for their health care,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would not give up on the subsidy extension even if the vote did not go their way.
“This fight is not over,” Jeffries said. “We’re just getting started.”
The House had not been in legislative session since Sept. 19, when it passed a short-term measure to keep the government open when the new budget year began in October. Johnson sent lawmakers home after that vote and put the onus on the Senate to act, saying House Republicans had done their job.
The compromise to end the shutdown
The legislation included buy-in from eight senators who broke ranks with the Democrats after reaching the conclusion that Republicans would not bend on using a government funding to bill to extend the health care tax credits. Meanwhile, the shutdown’s toll was growing by the day.
The compromise funds three annual spending bills and extends the rest of government funding through Jan. 30. Republicans promised to hold a vote by mid-December to extend the health care subsidies, but there is no guarantee of success.
“We had reached a point where I think a number of us believed that the shutdown had been very effective in raising the concern about health care,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. The promise for a future vote “gives us an opportunity to continue to address that going forward.”
The legislation includes a reversal of the firing of federal workers by the Trump administration since the shutdown began. It also protects federal workers against further layoffs through January and guarantees they are paid once the shutdown is over. The bill for the Agriculture Department means people who rely on key food assistance programs will see those benefits funded without threat of interruption through the rest of the budget year.
The package includes $203.5 million to boost security for lawmakers and an additional $28 million for the security of Supreme Court justices.
Democrats are also seizing on language that would give senators the opportunity to sue when a federal agency or employee searches their electronic records without notifying them, allowing for up to $500,000 in potential damages for each violation. Democrats called for removal of the provision.
The language seems aimed at helping Republican senators pursue damages if their phone records were analyzed by the FBI as part of an investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The provisions drew criticism from Republicans as well. Johnson said he was “very angry about it.”
“That was dropped in at the last minute, and I did not appreciate that, nor did most of the House members,” Johnson said, promising a vote on the matter as early as next week.
The biggest point of contention, though, was the fate of the expiring enhanced tax credit that makes health insurance more affordable through Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
“It’s a subsidy on top of a subsidy. Our friends added it during COVID,” Cole said. “COVID is over. They set a date certain that the subsidies would run out. They chose the date.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the enhanced tax credit was designed to give more people access to health care and no Republican voted for it.
“All they have done is try to eliminate access to health care in our country. The country is catching on to them,” Pelosi said.
Most Democrats call the passage of the spending bill this week a mistake. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York, who received blowback from his party in March when he voted to keep the government open, said the bill “fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.”
Without the enhanced tax credit, premiums on average will more than double for millions of Americans. More than 2 million people would lose health insurance coverage altogether next year, the Congressional Budget Office projected.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democrats, said giving up the fight was a “horrific mistake.” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., agreed, saying that voters who overwhelmingly supported Democrats in last week’s elections were urging them to “hold firm.”
Health care debate ahead
It’s unclear whether the parties will find any common ground on health care before the December vote in the Senate. Johnson has said he will not commit to bringing it up in his chamber.
Some Republicans have said they are open to extending the COVID-19 pandemic-era tax credits as premiums will soar for millions of people, but they also want new limits on who can receive the subsidies. Some argue that the tax dollars for the plans should be routed through individuals rather than go directly to insurance companies.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Monday that she was supportive of extending the tax credits with changes, such as new income caps. Some Democrats have signaled they could be open to that idea.
House Democrats expressed great skepticism that the Senate effort would lead to a breakthrough.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said Republicans have wanted to repeal the health overall for the past 15 years. “That’s where they’re trying to go,” she said.
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Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
WATCH: Louise Fraser is one of the oldest graduates from the University of Saskatchewan and hopes to use her newest bachelor's degree in education to pass down knowledge to the next generation.
For Louise Fraser, crossing the convocation stage on Wednesday at the University of Saskatchewan to pick up her latest bachelor’s degree may have made history, but it is only the first step toward her plans for the future.
The 87-year-old earned a degree in education, making her one of the oldest graduates at the university. However, this monumental moment was more than becoming a teacher – it was the start of Fraser’s journey of passing on to others something that she was once forced to forget.
“I lost my language when I was in residential school,” Fraser told Global News after collecting her degree Wednesday. “We were forbidden to speak our language and I want that back for myself and I’m still working on that.”
Fraser spent the last two and a half years studying to become a teacher, with the focus of her education on the Cree language. She also completed the four-year program in half the allotted time, since she already held degrees in social work.
Despite earning her education degree with distinction, Fraser said her time back in school was not always easy. She said her elders continually inspired her journey, pushing her to keep her language alive.
“It was a lot of hard work but I enjoyed it because I wanted to learn more about language,” Fraser said.
Before deciding to become a teacher, Fraser ran her own mental health therapy practice. She said she is looking forward to using her background in social work to help her navigate the classroom environment.
“I’m hoping to use my experience in social work to work with students, especially to pass the language on,” she said.
As for officially getting in front of students, Fraser won’t waste any time. She expects to receive her teaching certificate within the next few weeks and hopes to start teaching the Cree language before next year.
The city says its expanded efforts to crack down on fare evasion on transit buses are making a difference.
The city says its expanded efforts to crack down on fare evasion on transit buses are making a difference.
Since September, more than 6,800 fare checks have been performed by transit inspectors, with more than 4,900 people being denied rides.
More than 2,670 people chose to walk away before being prompted to pay.
Transit estimates it loses between seven and 10 million dollars annually from fare evasion.
“While both transit inspectors and safety officers use discretion when denying rides, we want to ensure Winnipeggers know the expectation is that every rider pays a fare,” said Janice Lukes, Chair of the Standing Policy Committee on Public Works.
Transit will also launch a fare education campaign.
In the weeks ahead, all buses will start playing an audio message as they approach stops reminding passengers to have their fare payment ready before boarding. And bus, bench, and shelter ads will encourage passengers to be aware of their fares.
Calgary police say a 20-year veteran of the force who was charged in August over allegations of fraud and theft involving hardware stores in Calgary and surrounding area, now faces additional charges.
The charges against Calgary Police Service Cst. Bradley Tepper, 52, involve items allegedly stolen from several hardware stores in Calgary and the surrounding area.
While he was originally charged with one count of theft over $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000, police announced Wednesday that Tepper now faces six additional charges, including:
two counts of theft over $5,000
two counts of theft under $5,000, and
two counts of fraud under $5,000.
Police said Tepper, who is scheduled to make his next court appearance on Dec. 17, has been suspended from duty without pay.
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