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Gathie Falk was a tireless innovator, a painter, sculptor, superb colourist, inventive ceramicist and performance artist, who from impoverished beginnings became one of the hardest working and most celebrated artists Vancouver has ever produced.Her art revealed the miraculous in the commonplace: a slippery fish, a red apple, a watermelon, the night sky full of stars. Over a long lifetime, she remained enthralled by the world’s beauty and strangeness.
January 10, 2026 - 07:00 | Judy Stoffman | The Globe and Mail
Despite a four-day power outage and subsequent plumbing issues that forced 4,000 people to evacuate, many in this northern First Nation chose to stay. They're holdouts — many either dealing with water and sewage issues at their own properties, or helping their neighbours who are.
January 10, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
For six years, Doug Ford has had a problem named Therme. Since the Ontario Premier agreed to hand over much of Ontario Place to that European waterpark operator, he has been plagued by a crush of allegations – chiefly, of rewriting the rules to serve a pet project and a well-connected business. He’s waved them away like a pesky swarm of flies.He can’t so easily dismiss the Supreme Court of Canada. In a surprising move this week, the court agreed to hear a challenge of Mr. Ford’s 2023 Rebuilding Ontario Place Act. The move is the message: His aggressive, destructive, expensive remaking of...
January 10, 2026 - 06:45 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
She knew she wasn’t going to win. In fact, she often introduced herself this way: I’m Liz White, I’m running for office, and I know I’m not going to win. This would be delivered with an apologetic smile, maybe a gentle laugh, as if she were letting you in on a joke. As if to underscore the foolishness of what she was saying. The person she was addressing, standing on their porch or leaning against a scuffed door frame, might tilt their head, like a puppy hearing an unfamiliar command, unsure if what they heard was, in fact, what Liz White had said.
But, yes, it was true. White was under...
January 10, 2026 - 06:30 | Mark Medley | Walrus
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.
In...
January 10, 2026 - 06:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
