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Three men wearing masks and carrying handguns and an assault rifle entered a pub in Toronto late Friday night and “opened fire indiscriminately,” injuring 12 people, the police said. Six people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, Paul MacIntyre, a police superintendent with the organized crime enforcement unit, said during a news conference … Read more

Between the U.S. tariff “psychodrama,” or, per Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s quip, “Thursday,” and the growing evidence that President Trump’s threats of Canada’s sovereignty are quite serious, it’s been a stressful time for Canadians who are looking for stability. That may not come quite yet. Even as Liberal Party members overcome registration problems to vote … Read more

The police in Manitoba have identified some of the human remains found in the search of a landfill near Winnipeg last month as those of Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of four Indigenous victims of a serial killer, the authorities said on Friday. Ms. Harris and three other women, who were all from the Winnipeg area, … Read more

China announced tariffs of up to 100 percent on canola, pork and other foods from Canada on Saturday, in retaliation for Canada’s decision last August to collect steep taxes on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum. The Chinese tariffs, which take effect on March 20, were also a clear warning to Canada — … Read more

Panama will release 112 migrants who had been deported from the United States last month and were being held in a remote jungle camp under conditions that lawyers and advocates said violated Panamanian and international laws. They come from countries that the United States cannot easily return deportees to, often because those nations will not … Read more

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people in what we today call Honduras made avocados a part of … Read more

This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others. For the first 10 years of her life, Tarcila Rivera-Zea lived a cloistered existence. Growing up in the Peruvian Andes as part of the Quechua Indigenous community, she spoke … Read more

The protester leaped on to the stage, lunged at Chrystia Freeland and screamed within inches of her face. She didn’t flinch. Her January campaign launch for leadership of the Liberal Party, and by extension Canada, was disrupted, but the encounter made a point no stump speech could have landed as effectively: She’s unflappable. Ms. Freeland, … Read more

It was the summer of 2007. Deep inside Canada’s finance ministry, high-ranking officials were staring down the barrel of a global financial meltdown. They weren’t sure exactly when, or how, the market would crash, but as Mark Carney tells it, “We knew that the thing was going to fall apart.” It was a turning point … Read more

After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an extraordinary statement that was largely lost in the fray of the moment. “The excuse that he’s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Mr. Trudeau told the news media in Ottawa. “What he … Read more