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Canada Hosts the World Cup. Your Team Plays Friday, and An Air Canada Captain Flew 900 Flights He Wasn’t Licensed For.
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Canada Hosts the World Cup. Your Team Plays Friday.
Canada plays its first home World Cup match Friday, against Bosnia and Herzegovina at Toronto’s BMO Field.
The tournament opens the day before in Mexico City, where Mexico meets South Africa, but for Canadians the action starts Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern. Canada is co-hosting the 2026 World Cup with the United States and Mexico, and the men’s team will play all three group games on home soil.
After Bosnia, Canada faces Qatar on June 18 and Switzerland on June 24 at Vancouver’s BC Place. Alphonso Davies, the Bayern Munich winger who grew up in Edmonton, leads the side.
For Canadians watching from abroad, the kickoff times are friendlier than usual. A 3 p.m. Eastern start lands in prime time across Europe, the small hours in Asia and around dawn in Australia. The team a lot of us grew up half-ignoring might suddenly be worth setting an alarm for.
Read more: TSN / Sky Sports
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An Air Canada Captain Flew 900 Flights He Wasn’t Licensed For
A retired Air Canada captain flew more than 900 commercial flights over nearly 17 years without the licence required to command them, Peel Regional Police allege.
The man, from Barrie, Ontario, held a commercial pilot’s licence but never the Airline Transport Pilot Licence that’s supposed to be required in order to captain passenger jets. Police say he used forged documents to satisfy Air Canada and Transport Canada after his promotion to captain in 2009. Between then and his retirement last year he commanded Boeing 767s, 777s and 787s, carrying tens of thousands of passengers and earning close to $3 million.
Those wide-bodies are the same planes that run the long-haul routes that many Voyageur readers would take home, so the odds are decent a few readers sat behind him at some point.
He now faces charges of fraud, public mischief and uttering forged documents, with his first court date set for June 29. Police called the investigation Project Icarus.
Read more: CBC News / The Globe and Mail