A Delta Air Lines passenger jet made a dramatic crash landing at Toronto airport on Monday afternoon, flipping upside down on the tarmac with its tail and one wing shorn off. But all 80 people aboard clambered out of the jet, which was coming in from Minneapolis. At least 18 of them suffered injuries, some … Read more
As President Trump looks north and repeatedly presses his case to absorb Canada as the “51st state,” politically minded Democrats who are otherwise outraged by almost everything else about his agenda find themselves contemplating a potential electoral boon should it ever happen. Few in Washington take the prospect all that seriously, of course. Canada has … Read more
A Delta flight arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis appears to have overturned while landing on Monday afternoon, with photos across social media showing an airplane with its belly up on the tarmac. The airport’s X account said in a post that all passengers and crew had been accounted for. The post said there … Read more
I first traveled to the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta because of a decades-old, black-and-white movie. On a frigid winter night, as I was flipping channels in my Manhattan apartment, I stumbled across a showing of “The Night of the Iguana” on Turner Classic Movies. This 1964 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, directed … Read more
With his unapologetic conservatism, his vow to fix a “broken” nation, his “common sense” fight against elites and all things woke, his norm-shattering personal attacks against political rivals, his pugilistic use of demeaning nicknames and his open disdain of the news media, Pierre Poilievre, the front-runner to become Canada’s next leader, has become a darling … Read more
Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, has caused a political firestorm by promoting an unknown cryptocurrency token that shot up in value after his endorsement and then swiftly cratered. In a post on social media on Friday night, Mr. Milei said that the coin, called $LIBRA, would stimulate the economy and help small businesses grow. While … Read more
Another week, and another round of tariff threats and annexation suggestions from President Trump. It began with the announcement of a policy imposing 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. In Canada’s case, those tariffs would be stacked on top of the previously introduced 25 percent tariffs on most Canadian exports, which are … Read more
Around 10:30 p.m. on a Friday in late January, David Fernando, a pharmacist, was working behind a counter at a drugstore in São Paulo when a man walked up to him and flashed a gun. “He asked for money from the register and medications from the refrigerator,” Mr. Fernando said. These days, pharmacists in São … Read more
A Rafter ‘Swallowed’ by a Whale, and Caught on Dad’s Video
Paddling through choppy waters under cloudy skies, Adrián Simancas and his father were packrafting only a few yards away from each other when something huge lunged, mouth open, from the waves below. A humpback whale appeared to gulp Mr. Simancas down, then rolled over into the waters of Chilean Patagonia. Moments later, Mr. Simancas bobbed … Read more