
An arbitrator has ordered the reinstatement of an Ontario postman fired for hoarding at least 6,000 pieces of mail during the summer of 2022 because Canada Post wasn’t aware of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
Hyun Min Jang was terminated from his job as a rural and suburban mail carrier in King City, Ont., “for misdirection and delay of mail, as a result of the discovery of thousands of pieces of undelivered mail in his personal vehicle,” according to a recent decision from Kathleen G. O’Neil, the arbitrator.
“Items retrieved from (Jang’s) vehicle included a great variety of...
January 10, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Sprawling training sites. Huge oil storage areas. Countless anti-aircraft missile launchers. Ponds for testing amphibious vehicles. And nuclear-tipped missiles that could reach Western European capitals in mere minutes.
A group of private intelligence analysts using commercial satellite images and other evidence has put together a graphic illustration of the Russian military buildup on NATO’s Eastern flank, a threat that has most of Europe scrambling to bolster its defences.
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January 10, 2026 - 06:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
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January 10, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
Another month in Toronto, another fiasco. Last month, it was the opening of a new, suburban transit service. The long-awaited $3.7-billion Finch West light-rail line turned out to be so slow that one guy put on his jogging shoes and managed to outrun it.
January 10, 2026 - 05:35 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Less than a decade after Confederation, the newly created province of Ontario was hit by several academic scandals in the mid-1870s, with revelations that exam papers for the certification of schoolteachers were stolen or illicitly unsealed, copied, then sold on the black market.Fast-forward to our time, when the Law Society of Ontario found out that copies of its licensing exam had been leaked to a tutoring agency. The legal regulator suspected that 150 wannabe lawyers had “engaged in prohibited actions” when they were tested in the fall of 2021.
January 10, 2026 - 05:20 | Ha Tu Thanh | The Globe and Mail
Call them draft dodgers in Donald Trump’s trade war: A flock of rubber ducks in Washington State, at odds with the U.S. President’s tariffs, has relocated across the border to British Columbia. The ducks were on sale at the Rubber Duck Museum, which since July, 2024, had been tucked inside a gift shop in Point Roberts, the tiny, American pene-exclave south of Vancouver.
January 10, 2026 - 05:15 | Andrea Woo, Photography by Jimmy Jeong | The Globe and Mail
