Canada
The Lede
What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t
The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism.
The Lede
Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity
Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it.
The Sporting Scene
Team Canada’s Revenge, Served Ice-Cold
The hockey team’s thrilling victory in the 4 Nations Face-Off sent a clear message to the Americans and Donald Trump.
The Lede
Why Justin Trudeau Had to Step Down
The Canadian Prime Minister will no longer lead the Liberal Party, and there are reasons to worry about what will happen if the Conservatives win the next election.
Dispatch
Nova Scotia’s Billion-Dollar Lobster Wars
How Indigenous fishermen are defending their rights—and corporate profits—in the most lucrative fishery in North America.
This Week in Fiction
André Alexis on Reality and Transformation
The author discusses his story “Consolation.”
Q. & A.
Sikh Separatism and the Brewing Conflict Between Canada and India
Did India carry out or abet the assassination of a Sikh leader on Canadian soil?
Daily Comment
Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?
The latest record temperatures are driving, again precisely as scientists have predicted, a cascading series of disasters around the world.
Our Local Correspondents
Trying to Breathe in a City of Smoke
As the world warms and Canada burns, what once seemed unprecedented is becoming familiar.
Personal History
It Was an Ordinary Name
My parents said not to tell anyone where we lived and not to open the door if anyone knocked. We were Lao refugees. They said not to tell anyone that, either.
The Front Row
“Women Talking,” Reviewed: A Sublime Script, a Merely Very Good Movie
Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel doesn’t entirely do justice to its powerful source material.
The New Yorker Documentary
Using Distance to Fight Addiction and Estrangement
An Indigenous Canadian’s unlikely journey to becoming an ultramarathoner, in Amar Chebib’s documentary short “The Runner.”
Page-Turner
How Kate Beaton Paid Off Her Student Loans
“Ducks,” the Canadian cartoonist’s new graphic memoir, chronicles two years she spent working in the Athabasca oil sands, in northeastern Alberta.
Daily Comment
Pope Francis’s “Penitential Pilgrimage” to Canada’s Indigenous Communities
Papal acknowledgment of the Church’s transgressions is relatively new, but Francis has tried to make it central to the job.
Daily Comment
Looking for Reasons to Be Hopeful About Gun Legislation
Canada initiates more real progress and, in this country, something would be better than nothing.
Afterword
A Country Star from the First Nations
Shane Yellowbird, as it happens, was an accidental singer.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Republicans Blast Canada for Insanely Responding to Gun Violence by Banning Guns
“People who shoot people inside buildings first have to enter those buildings,” Greg Abbott said. “The problem isn’t guns—it’s doors.”
The New Yorker Interview
The Stories Sarah Polley Couldn’t Tell
The director spent years recovering from a head injury, raising a family, and facing the traumas of her past. In a new book, she tells us what she’s learned.
