
On July 11, 2010, in Orillia, Ont., the folk duo of Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson reunited at the Mariposa Folk Festival for a surprise performance of their melancholic Canadiana classic Four Strong Winds. Watching the former husband and wife harmonize on the ballad about a failed romantic relationship, 83-year-old Ruth Jones-McVeigh had a tear in her eye. She wasn’t alone.
January 21, 2026 - 13:40 | Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail
Starting Jan. 21, Canadians can see a rare celestial event as six planets line up in the evening sky, mostly visible to the naked eye.
January 21, 2026 - 13:27 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Canada
"To share information that the project will be done in 2050 is irresponsible," said a Dofasco representative at a community meeting Tuesday night. The plan to power the plant with natural gas instead of coal was supposed to be done by 2028 with the help of hundreds of millions of public dollars.
January 21, 2026 - 13:13 | | CBC News - Canada
An Ontario man has been ordered by a Superior Court judge not to bring a snake to ongoing proceedings in a family law dispute.
According to a November 2025
decision
by Justice Calum MacLeod, the man appeared at a family court case conference with an albino ball python named “Rico,”...
January 21, 2026 - 13:13 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
A former flight attendant for a Canadian airline posed as a commercial pilot and as a current flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from U.S. airlines, authorities said.Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday following his extradition.According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fake employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight...
January 21, 2026 - 12:46 | Jennifer Sinco Kelleher | The Globe and Mail
Court documents obtained by The Associated Press say the 33-year-old Toronto man worked as a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019.
January 21, 2026 - 12:42 | Rachel Goodman | Global News - Canada




