Tag Archives: Canada

This week’s Letter will be a little unconventional. I’m going to try to put Canada’s shifting immigration policy in a global context. But, if you’ll permit, I’d like to first take a moment to introduce myself. Hello! I’m The New York Times’s new Canada bureau chief. My family and I …

On a warm July night two years ago, Moninder Singh received a chilling message from special federal agents who showed up at his house in British Columbia: You are being formally warned that there is an imminent threat to your life. Avoid public spaces. Enhance security at home. The first …

Thanksgiving has never been the outsize family gathering time in Canada that it is in the United States. (In Atlantic Canada, it’s not even a holiday.) But this year, it was marked in an unusual way. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a force that normally defaults to stony silence about …

Forests not only serve as refuges from city life, but could also be among the last fortresses between a livable planet and an increasingly hostile one. Forests can pull carbon from the air and store it in roots and leaves, locking it out of the atmosphere. Through complex markets, nations …

Canada accused the Indian government on Monday of homicide and extortion intended to silence critics of India living in Canada, escalating a bitter dispute that began last year with an assassination of a Sikh activist. Canada expelled India’s top diplomat and five others, saying they were part of a vast …

A late-night Uber ride from Toronto’s Pearson Airport into the city usually guarantees a good fare for the driver. But not for Sachindeep Singh on the evening of Sept. 19. A few miles into the ride, his Uber app stopped working. Mr. Singh’s work permit had expired at midnight and, …

A small, heart-shaped body of water aptly named Green Lake lies at just under 9,000 feet on the western side of the Tetons, deep within the Jedediah Smith Wilderness area of Wyoming. Mirroring the surrounding conifers, the surface of the lake rests perfectly still this fall evening. From the trailhead, …

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. While on assignment this year in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for The New York Times, my attention turned to big game — moose, that is. In 1904, …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Monday that “agents of the government of India” had carried out the assassination of a Sikh community leader in British Columbia in June, an explosive allegation that is likely to further sour relations between the two nations. Speaking in the House of …