Stratford News

A MyNews contributor shared this photo of a mother duck and her ducklings crossing the road in Stratford, Ont., Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Though decades have passed since Pete Townshend's childhood in London, watching the Stratford Festival's revamp of his hit rock opera Tommy nonetheless stirs up difficult memories from his working-class, post-war upbringing.

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in a scene from "The Great Gatsby."Book lovers who haven't yet read "The Great Gatsby" but hope to do so before seeing the new Baz Luhrmann film adaptation may still find themselves being influenced by the Hollywood machine.

Ontario high-school teacher Paul Finkelstein, centre, takes students on yearly field trips to deepen their insights into the power of good food.

A video featuring Commander Chris Hadfield's zero-gravity cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity has exploded in terms of online viewership, surpassing the interest in a talked-about video released just last week, that being, of all things, Bowie's controversial vignette for his current single The Next Day .

Writer Alison Wearing was 12 when she learned her father was gay. She was sitting in her family kitchen in Peterborough, Ont., when her mother was unloading the dishwasher and broke the news to her.

Writer Alison Wearing was 12 when she learned her father was gay. She was sitting in her family kitchen in Peterborough, Ont., when her mother was unloading the dishwasher and broke the news to her.

Antoni Cimolino is artistic director of the Stratford Festival , North America's largest classical repertory festival, which runs April through October in Stratford, Ont.

The Caledonian Orchestra of Nova Scotia will present a concert of Scottish music on May 11 at 7 p.m. in the Pictou United Church on James Street in Pictou.

Winter wheat seeded in Ontario last fall is believed to have survived the winter in very good to excellent condition.

Canadian baritone Phillip Addis is looking forward to spending more time in Watertown than the last time he was in town about 15 years ago.

Musician, teacher, real-estate developer, visionary. Born Feb.14, 1914, in Toronto, S.D., died Jan.

According to a news release posted today on their official website , the veteran Canuck country rockers have confirmed a July appearance at the 2013 Calgary Stampede.

As reliable as the robin's return, springtime brings drama in Ontario. The Stratford Festival, in Stratford, Ontario, kicked off its 2013 season with a preview of "Fiddler on the Roof" Tuesday.

Return Engagements author Bernard Slade found success on television with The Partridge Family , The Flying Nun , and Bewitched , but he hit Broadway gold with Same Time, Next Year , a comedy that follows an extramarital affair through a course of once-a-year meetings.

After being shut out in his first categories, Justin Bieber won a Juno Award on Sunday - with a little help from his friends.