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☆ He Won Election to Canada’s Parliament. Did China Help?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The newcomer landed in a district of northern Toronto and announced his bid for Canada’s Parliament. Though few knew him, an important factor helped offset his lack of name recognition — the backing of prominent local Chinese-Canadians. “I’m very happy that I feel very well supported, surrounded by friends,” the candidate, Han Dong, said at a news conference. But a government-appointed special rapporteur said there was “well-grounded suspicion” Mr. Dong also had help from a hidden source as he vied for the Liberal Party’s nomination: the Chinese Consulate. Mr. Dong’s victory — eventually propelling him to Parliament in 2019 — is one of several Canadian campaigns that have raised fears about Chinese election interference.

Persons: “, ”, Han Dong, Mr, Dong, — Organizations: Canada’s, Liberal Locations: Toronto, Chinese

☆ Alleged Plot in New York Bolsters Canada’s Accusations Against India
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada accused the Indian government in September of being behind the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist near Vancouver, there was fierce denial, skepticism and muted support. India vehemently denied the accusations and forced out 41 Canadian diplomats. Canada’s allies, including the United States, said little, concerned about offending an increasingly important counterweight to China and Russia. Even Canada’s opposition leader demanded that Mr. Trudeau “come clean” with the evidence behind the accusations. But Canada’s case against India and Mr. Trudeau’s lonely stand were shored up on Wednesday after federal prosecutors in Manhattan revealed details of what they said was a separate plot in the United States, with links to the killing in Canada.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, Mr, Trudeau Locations: Canada, Vancouver, India, United States, China, Russia, Manhattan

☆ He Warned Canada About Climate Change but Says, ‘We’ve Failed Big Time’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“We’ve failed big time,” Dr. Suzuki said of the environmental movement. “We as environmentalists focused on issues: drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, threats to the caribou herd, stopping a dam in the Amazon. Not only were they pronounced during a summer of catastrophes for Canada’s environment, they came as Dr. Suzuki has slipped — at age 87 — into what he described as the “death zone,” a time, in his view, for assessing one’s life. “The death zone, it’s not being morbid; it’s just reality,” Dr. Suzuki said. Lunch would consist of sweet shrimp, salmon sashimi, clams and oysters, all harvested by the family.

Persons: “ We’ve, ” Dr, Suzuki, Dr, “, ’, Sarika Cullis, —, Cullis, ”, Graeme Wynn Organizations: Wildlife, University of British Locations: Quadra, Canada, University of British Columbia

The Sikh temple leader wanted as a terrorist by India walked toward his pickup truck late one Sunday last June after a long day at his place of worship. He and an associate discussed some upcoming programs while making their way across the large parking lot behind the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple near Vancouver. It was Father’s Day and, once inside his gray Dodge Ram, the leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, called his family and said he was heading right home. Then, witnesses say, they heard a burst of automatic gunfire and saw two hooded men running away from Mr. Nijjar’s immobilized pickup. Running, Mr. Singh was the first to reach the Dodge Ram, where he found a still-buckled Mr. Nijjar slumped over the center console, his right arm stretched out toward the passenger seat.

Persons: Nanak, Dodge Ram, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, ”, Bhupinder Jit Singh, Singh, Nijjar Locations: India, Vancouver

☆ Rising Separatism, and an Assassination, at a Sikh Temple in Canada
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The markers of separatism are everywhere at the temple. Dozens of yellow flags of Khalistan — a homeland that Sikh separatists want to create in the Punjab region of India — flew in and around the grounds of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple near Vancouver. In a ground floor hall, where the faithful were socializing and eating, the walls are lined with scores of framed photographs of slain separatist leaders. Now, a portrait of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, holding the symbolic curved sword of devout men, has been added to a wall with four pushpins, still unframed. Mr. Nijjar was gunned down outside the temple in June, a killing that Canada has accused India of orchestrating, sparking a diplomatic skirmish that has culminated in a war of words between the two countries.

Persons: India —, Nanak, Hardeep Singh, Nijjar Locations: Punjab, India, Vancouver, Canada

☆ In a Storied River, Fish Are Dying in Droves as Climate Change Scorches Canada
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The salmon were once so plentiful in the river that old-timers talk about having been able to cross on the backs of fish so thick they were like steppingstones. Such was the renown of the Cowichan River, flowing east on Canada’s Vancouver Island, that its fly-fishing conditions were posted in fishing clubs in London. Local scientists suspect the bigger culprit is climate change, which has contributed to the decline of salmon populations in British Columbia by increasing droughts and heat waves. In a summer of global catastrophes for Canada, climate change has been felt across this vast country — from Cowichan Valley on the Pacific Coast to Halifax on the Atlantic, from the long border with the United States to the remotest towns above the Arctic Circle. But if the world has been consumed with the fires raging across Canada’s forests, turned into tinderboxes from the effects of climate change, the plight of the river has hit close to home in Cowichan Valley.

Persons: John Wayne, Bing Crosby Locations: Cowichan, London, Cowichan Bay ., Canada, British Columbia, Cowichan Valley, Halifax, United States, tinderboxes

☆ WM, 51, Separated, Looks to Rekindle Old Bond — With Voters
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2005, Justin Trudeau, the son of a legendary Canadian prime minister, and Sophie Grégoire, a well-known television journalist, married inside a stone church in Montreal’s wealthy, French-speaking enclave of Outremont. “I’m the luckiest woman in the world,” the bride said to a crowd of onlookers as she entered the church. Under a sunny sky, the couple drove away in a Mercedes roadster that belonged to Mr. Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, producing an iconic wedding photo. “The wedding was talked about a lot, maybe not as much as Céline Dion’s, but it was talked about,” Geneviève Tellier, a political science professor at the University of Ottawa, said, referring to the singer who is from Quebec. “It was a media event.”Over the next decade, Mr. Trudeau, with his wife and their three children, shrewdly crafted an image that became integral to his rapid ascent — that of a modern husband, father and political figure, who would go on to win votes with a mix of idealism and glamour.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire, “, Trudeau’s, Pierre Trudeau, ” Geneviève Tellier, Trudeau, shrewdly Organizations: Canadian, University of Ottawa Locations: Montreal’s, Outremont, Quebec, “

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced on Wednesday that he and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, had separated after 18 years of marriage. The Trudeaus, who have three children, have “signed a legal separation agreement,” according to a statement released by the prime minister’s office. For the well-being of our children, we ask that you respect our privacy and their privacy,” Mr. Trudeau said in a post on Instagram. He added that they had decided to separate “after many meaningful and difficult conversations.”Mr. Trudeau’s wife and children have played a prominent role in his political career, often accompanying him on trips overseas after he was elected prime minister in 2015. Their children are Xavier, 15, Ella-Grace, 14, and Hadrien, 9.

Persons: Justin Trudeau of, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, “, Mr, Trudeau, ” Mr, Trudeau’s, Xavier, Ella, Grace Organizations: Justin Trudeau of Canada

☆ Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Richard Beauvais’s identity began unraveling two years ago, after one of his daughters became interested in his ancestry. She wanted to learn more about his Indigenous roots — she was even considering getting an Indigenous tattoo — and urged him to take an at-home DNA test. Mr. Beauvais, then 65, had spent a lifetime describing himself as “half French, half Indian,” or Métis, and he had grown up with his grandparents in a log house in a Métis settlement. Mr. Ambrose had grown up listening to Ukrainian folk songs, attending Mass in Ukrainian and devouring pierogies, but, according to the test, he wasn’t of Ukrainian descent at all. And so, after a first contact through the test’s website, and months of emails, anguished phone calls and sleepless nights in both men’s families, Mr. Beauvais and Mr. Ambrose came to the conclusion two years ago that they had been switched at birth.

Persons: Richard Beauvais’s, Beauvais, Eddy Ambrose’s, Ambrose Locations: British Columbia, Manitoba

☆ How to Fight Canada’s Wildfires in the Era of Climate Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wildfires in Canada have so far scorched forests totaling the size of the state of Virginia. The province of Quebec recorded its biggest blaze ever this month as it advanced across an area 13 times as large as New York City. Mega fires, so vast and ferocious that they simply cannot be fought, have erupted across the country. Even as thousands of Canadians and firefighters from abroad continued to battle more than 900 fires, Canada’s record-shattering wildfire season has made it clear that traditional firefighting methods are no longer enough, experts in wildfires and forests say. They include steps like closing forests to people when conditions are ripe for fires and increasing patrols to spot smaller fires earlier, when there is still a chance to contain them.

Locations: Canada, Virginia, The, Quebec, New York City

☆ Canadian Politicians Who Criticize China Become Its Targets
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | More About Norimitsu Onishi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Later, in November, Mr. Lee and his wife, Anne, flew to Shanghai. He asked why and said he was told: “‘You know what you have done. We believe you could endanger our national security.’”He and his wife were put on a plane back to Canada. He was no longer invited to some events because organizers told him that the consul general did not want to attend if Mr. Lee was also present. Mr. Lee said he believed the icy treatment contributed to the loss of his seat in 2017, after 16 years in office.

Persons: Lee, Anne, Tong Xiaoling, Kenny Chiu Organizations: Mr, Longtime, Embassy, The Globe, Conservative Locations: Shanghai, Canada, Burnaby, Ottawa, Vancouver, China

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