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Each spring, opalescent icebergs from the Greenland ice sheet pass through Iceberg Alley, off the eastern edge of Canada, on a slow-motion journey southward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/travel/iceberg-alley-newfoundland-labrador.html

Civilians have killed at least 160 gang members in Haiti, a human rights group says. Residents say they feel safer, but others worry that it will lead to even more violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/world/americas/haiti-crime-gangs-vigilantes.html

The Ukraine conflict is causing soul-searching among the Doukhobors, a peace-loving group that emigrated to Canada in 1899.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/world/canada/canada-doukhobors-ukraine-war.html

Humbled by centuries of fatal colonial expeditions, Canada’s military is learning Arctic survival strategies from the austere area’s only inhabitants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/world/canada/canada-military-arctic-climate.html

He said his survival of the Holocaust at 10 years old allowed him to understand “what it is like to be a victim of human rights violations.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/us/thomas-buergenthal-dead.html

This week, the government announced a new clerk of the Privy Council, an unsung role that is one of the most important in the federal government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/world/canada/canada-letter-privy-council-clerk.html

The rail disaster, in the eastern state of Odisha, was among the deadliest in a nation with a history of rail safety problems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/world/asia/india-train-accident-odisha.html

Despite cooperating with prosecutors, Rodolphe Jaar was given the maximum term by a judge in Miami, the first sentence handed down in what the authorities say was a sprawling plot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/us/haiti-moise-assassination-conspiracy.html

A grisly discovery in western Mexico this week has become a stark reminder of the fate of the country’s tens of thousands of disappeared people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/world/americas/remains-mexico-call-center.html

Still grappling with the finale of the hit HBO series? An article by a feminist theorist could be surprisingly helpful with understanding the deals that patriarchal systems offer women.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/world/americas/succession-finale-reading.html

Tobacco companies must soon label individual cigarettes sold in the country with a health warning, in what Canada is calling a global first.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/world/canada/canada-cigarette-warnings.html

The son of Juan Formell, a giant of Cuban music, he found his own voice as a singer-songwriter. He died during a performance in New York.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/arts/music/juan-carlos-formell-dead.html

But the United Conservative Party will hold substantially fewer seats in the legislature, in an apparent rebuff of the politics of its outspoken leader.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/world/americas/alberta-canada-conservative-election.html

Wildfires in Nova Scotia have heightened the sense of unease as blazes also burn in the west of the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/world/canada/wildfire-halifax-nova-scotia.html

Never limited by categories, his free-ranging intellect delved into physics, probability and anthropology, establishing him as a major thinker.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/science/ian-hacking-dead.html

Investigators have accused the 15-year-old student of starting the blaze in anger after her mobile phone was confiscated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/americas/guyana-school-dorm-fire.html

An election in Alberta will be a test of a premier who has said that she models her politics after those of prominent right-wing U.S. politicians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/canada/alberta-election-canada.html

The company chartered centuries ago to found the colony that became part of Canada last year gave a building to the Indigenous that is heavy in symbolism. The move is being criticized by some as ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/world/americas/indigenous-canada-hudson-bay.html

More than 200 others could be at risk from a fungal meningitis outbreak that has been traced to two clinics in Matamoros, Mexico, where people traveled for cosmetic surgeries, health officials ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/fungal-meningitis-outbreak-mexico.html

The measures of an artificial intelligence bill won’t go into effect until 2025. For some, that’s too late.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/world/canada/chatgpt-canada-ai-oversight.html