Canada

Wildfires, driven by climate change, have become more intense and frequent, but scientists are still trying to understand larger patterns.

By Manuela Andreoni

In the carrot-versus-stick debate, fees and fines have dominated the conversation. But some destinations’ new policies aim to reward tourists who behave responsibly.

By Elaine Glusac

About a third of the buildings in the mountain resort town have burned, raising questions about preparedness and the role of climate change.

By Ian Austen

The former president met with the Israeli leader in Florida, a day after his main opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and he both criticized Israel’s conduct of the war.

By Michael Gold and Matthew Mpoke Bigg

Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters.

By Austyn Gaffney

Devastating wildfires have forced thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate Jasper, Canada.

By Reuters, The Associated Press and Miriam Crawley Via Storyful

Fast-moving fires have destroyed a third of the buildings in the picturesque town of Jasper, Alberta, and its national park. But the mayor hopes to rebuild.

By Ian Austen

Plus, top Mexican cartel leaders arrested.

By Tracy Mumford, Ruth Igielnik, Natalie Kitroeff, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

Fires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the western United States and Canada, prompting evacuations and blanketing cities in smoke.

By The New York Times

The large blazes prompted officials to issue evacuation orders and warnings about air quality.

By Ang Li

As much as half of Jasper, Alberta, which lies inside one of the country’s most-visited national parks, has been destroyed, officials said.

By Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai

Thousands of tourists and local residents have been evacuated from the park in Alberta, Canada.

By The New York Times

Wildfire smoke from the Western United States and Canada is blowing across the Northeast, lowering air quality and endangering vulnerable populations.

By Austyn Gaffney

Two Russian and two Chinese bombers patrolled the airspace near American territory and were intercepted by U.S. and Canadian jets.

By Paul Sonne

Active wildfires have forced communities to evacuate as the blaze left much of the region in ashes, including parts of Jasper National Park.

By AFP and Reuters

The authorities arrested a man believed to have started the fire north of Sacramento. A second fire in eastern Oregon, affecting more than 268,000 acres, is now the largest in the country.

By Heather Knight, Mike Baker and Amanda Holpuch

Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.

By Aaron Krolik and Paul Mozur

Scientists found an unexpected aging pattern in a mostly intact juvenile mammal skeleton from the paleontological period.

By Jack Tamisiea

There were more than 160 active wildfires in Alberta on Monday, with around 7,500 people under evacuation orders.

By Reuters and Storyful

Large blazes in the province have led to the evacuation of thousands of people.

By Qasim Nauman

James Brett Clibbery and his wife, Sarah Justine Packwood, had left Nova Scotia on June 11, bound for the Azores. The authorities recovered remains believed to be theirs earlier this month.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

China and India have been accused of exploiting the opaque nomination contests of Canadian political parties to meddle in elections.

By Norimitsu Onishi

While a listeria contamination of 18 nondairy milk alternatives has killed two people and sickened 10 more, Danone seems to be concealing a key fact.

By Ian Austen

The country’s struggle to reach an informal military spending target highlights how difficult it is for the alliance to quickly bolster its abilities.

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff

A common antibiotic, doxycycline, greatly reduced cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia when taken every day, a study found.

By Apoorva Mandavilli

The Silk and Great Value brand drinks made from nuts, oats and coconuts were pulled from stores last week.

By Ian Austen

Major roads and freeways were shut down in Canada’s largest city amid heavy rainfall and flash flooding.

By The New York Times

More than 167,000 customers lost power on Tuesday after severe thunderstorms.

By Yan Zhuang

For the first time, the government will set a cap on visas for temporary residents, including temporary workers and students, this fall.

By Vjosa Isai

The reports were tantalizing, but someone else was behind the expensive purchase.

By Rukmini Callimachi and Vivian Marino

An increase of more than 8 percent will take effect on Sept. 1. The base membership will go up by $5, to $65 per year.

By Hank Sanders

This documentary follows a renowned Inuit activist over seven years, making sense of the ways in which racism and impoverishment can abrade one’s sense of self.

By Devika Girish

British Columbia’s partial retreat from an experiment to decriminalize drug possession reveals a political shift in Canada over combating the opioid crisis.

By Vjosa Isai and Alana Paterson

Andrea Skinner said in The Toronto Star that her stepfather sexually abused her at age 9, and that her mother stayed with him after she learned of it.

By Elizabeth A. Harris

Oil sands companies pushing a carbon capture project shut down their website after a law banning misleading environmental claims was passed.

By Ian Austen

British Columbia recognized the Haida’s aboriginal title to their islands decades after the Indigenous group launched a battle on the ground and in the courts.

By Norimitsu Onishi and Amber Bracken

After a last-minute setback, the Canadian Canoe Museum has finally opened its new building in Ontario.

By Ian Austen

In a changing climate, extreme wildfire events are becoming far more common and more intense, according to a new analysis.

By Austyn Gaffney

Edmonton’s mayor says that the issues behind homelessness, opioid overdoses and mental health crises cannot be fixed by cities.

By Ian Austen

Prosecutors say that Nikhil Gupta, at the behest of an Indian government official, tried to engage a hit man to kill an American citizen who is a Sikh separatist.

By Maia Coleman

Families of patients in a Cold War-era mind-control experiment in Montreal are pressing forward after a recent setback in their class-action lawsuit.

By Vjosa Isai

Human rights groups are urging Canada to stop holding migrants seeking asylum in jails, often with people accused of violent crimes.

By Ian Austen

The return of the Edmonton Oilers to the Stanley Cup finals after 18 years has brightened up Alberta’s capital after some difficult times.

By Ian Austen

Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea.

By Hank Sanders

In a cold, remote corner of northern Quebec, a sexual abuse scandal pushed a church to the edge. The Rev. Gérard Tsatselam, from Cameroon, must comfort the afflicted to bring it back.

By Norimitsu Onishi and Renaud Philippe

The Group of 7 gathers major industrialized countries, but its leaders are politically weak and Ukraine and Gaza remain unsolved.

By Mark Landler and Steven Erlanger

A Toronto police officer mounted a defiant social media campaign against her employer. The police ruled that she had tried to destroy the agency’s reputation.

By Vjosa Isai and Tara Walton

Grizzly Bear 178, or Nakoda, as she was known to her fans on social media, was hit in Yoho National Park, hours after her cubs were struck and killed in a separate accident, officials said.

By Sara Ruberg

Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new study turned the fossil upside down.

By Carl Zimmer

American travelers going abroad this summer will find their money buys more in some unexpected countries, including Japan and Australia.

By Elaine Glusac

A report by a parliamentary committee said that politicians, who were not named, had helped China, India and other countries meddle in Canadian politics.

By Ian Austen

A police force outside Toronto said that charges against Frank Stronach, 91, relate to episodes from as long ago as the 1980s and as recent as last year.

By Ian Austen

Including titles by John Vaillant, Ayana Mathis, Katie Williams and more.

By Shreya Chattopadhyay

It turns out A.I. is surprisingly Canadian.

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker and Marion Lozano

A new bulletin says China is trying to step up recruitment of Western-trained fighter pilots to improve its air combat capability.

By Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper

Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced Canada’s hydropower production, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change.

By Ivan Penn and Ruth Fremson

Convicted in the murder of six women (though he boasted of killing many more), he died of unspecified injuries after being assaulted in prison.

By Trip Gabriel

A watchdog agency found roadblocks to the flow of information both within the spy agency and the public service.

By Ian Austen

Federal regulators said that the portable bed rails posed a serious entrapment hazard and a risk of death by asphyxiation.

By Johnny Diaz

Trees have been cut to create fire guards in Banff, the country’s most popular national park. After its warmest winter in history, Canada braces for another season of wildfires.

By Norimitsu Onishi

Officials in Toronto and many residents ask why the province of Ontario is turning a former waterfront park over to an Austrian spa operator.

By Ian Austen and Ian Willms

The bluffs, dunes and lagoons of the Magdalens, a colorful yet tranquil island chain north of Prince Edward Island, are far from everywhere. That’s the point.

By Richard Rubin

While the post office considers plans to revamp its business model, any major fixes are likely to be politically vexing.

By Ian Austen

Despite a relatively wet spring, government officials are warning that persistent drought across Western Canada could leave the region vulnerable to major fires.

By Vjosa Isai

The trading card maker Topps said it made 110 custom cards for Liz McGuire, who was hit by a ball at a game in Toronto on Friday between the Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays.

By Jesus Jiménez

In Canada, cannabis poisonings rose sharply among people 65 and older after the country legalized the drug, a new study found.

By Matt Richtel

On an epic road trip, a family plots a course from Alaska to the Lower 48, passing through some of Canada’s most spectacular scenery. The tally: 2,200 miles, five national parks, numerous hot springs and one excellent reindeer hot dog.

By Elaine Glusac

Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.

By Thomas E. Ricks

In newspaper columns and on radio and TV, he was his country’s “premier provocateur,” gaining a wide audience for his conservative attacks on liberals and environmentalists.

By Adam Nossiter

The Nobel laureate, whose precisely written stories about southwestern Ontario many considered “without equal,” died this week at 92.

By Ian Austen

The police believe the killer, who died in an Idaho jail, may be linked to the unsolved murders of other women in British Columbia, Alberta and the United States.

By Vjosa Isai and Jeremy Appel

The Biden administration is betting that new China tariffs will be politically popular, even if they could slow the transition from fossil fuels.

By Jim Tankersley and David Gelles

The fire, near Fort McMurray, Alberta, has put the community, which is haunted by the costliest wildfire in Canadian history, on high alert.

By Ian Austen

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.

By Anthony DePalma

Smoke from wildfires in Canada draped Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin on Sunday and Monday. But experts say the air quality in the nation’s middle is unlikely to be as bad as last summer.

By Ernesto Londoño

As smoke from wildfires drifted south over the weekend, officials urged people to avoid prolonged exertion and to limit their time outdoors.

By Claire Moses

After their strike last year failed to win the right to work remotely, the unions are challenging a plan calling for three days a week at workplaces.

By Ian Austen

The Canadian comedian, known for “American Pie,” “Schitt’s Creek” and now, “The Reluctant Traveler,” isn’t at all reluctant to share what he loves about his hometown.

By Abbie Kozolchyk

A province that was a global pioneer in harm reduction took a step back after a political backlash.

By Ian Austen

The police said that they did not know whether the shooting was related to the recent exchange of increasingly personal diss tracks traded between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

By Joe Coscarelli

New Ho King, open since 1976 in Toronto, has become an unlikely pop-culture battleground after being featured in songs from both rappers.

By T.M. Brown

Montreal is a city as appealing for its beauty as for its shadows. Here, the novelist Mona Awad recommends books that are “both dreamy and uncompromising.”

By Mona Awad

India’s external spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, has long been accused of tapping into criminal networks to carry out operations in South Asia. Is the agency now doing similar operations in the West?

By Mujib Mashal and Suhasini Raj

In a visit supported by the U.S. government, a group of Mexican experts came to British Columbia to discuss ways of responding to rampant opioid deaths.

By Vjosa Isai

The killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh nationalist who had sought a separate state in India and was viewed as a terrorist by New Delhi, set off diplomatic tensions between Canada and India.

By Vjosa Isai

A three-team race is deciding this year’s Premier League champion. The competition’s global reach means a significant portion of the world’s population is following along.

By Muktita Suhartono, Elian Peltier, Shawna Richer and Rory Smith

Alberta is seeking powers to veto funding agreements between the federal government and provincial entities, including postsecondary institutions.

By Vjosa Isai

The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.

By Jack Ewing

Avani Dias said that she had been denied a visa renewal for weeks because of her reporting on the Sikh separatist movement. Indian officials disputed her account.

By Sameer Yasir and Yan Zhuang

The measure from a member of the Bloc Québécois would ban changes to the supply management system for dairy, poultry and eggs.

By Ian Austen