Wednesday Briefing: 100 Days of Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a combative tone yesterday after his Liberal Party won a narrow victory in Canada’s parliamentary elections. He vowed to confront Trump’s threats to Canada’s economy and its sovereignty.

“As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,” he said in a speech in Ottawa. “President Trump is trying to break us, so he can own us. That will never happen.”

While the Liberals will form the next government, they are projected to have a minority in the House of Commons. They had 169 seats at the time of this send, three shy of a parliamentary majority with only one seat left to call. Here are the latest results.

Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader, lost his seat in Ottawa, a stinging defeat for a man who had seemed set to become the next prime minister just a few months ago. Here are takeaways from the election.


The Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago this week, was the first “living room war,” and it continues to have an impact through the violent, intimate images produced by photographers on the ground there.

Those photographs shaped politics, amplified opposition to the war and changed how many Americans viewed their country. But what people on both sides saw wasn’t always the same. Take a look.

Traces of America: The buildings that Americans left behind when they pulled out of Vietnam have their own story to tell. Our Vietnam bureau chief wanted to hear those tales for himself.

Politics: The Trump administration eased a ban on senior diplomats attending events marking the anniversary of the war’s end.


David Kaczynski turned in his brother, the Unabomber, to the F.B.I. in 1996. He spent nearly three decades trying to explain why — and attempting to visit the older brother he had adored one last time. In a series of interviews, David spoke in detail for the first time about his long correspondence with his sibling.

Lives lived: Beginning with a competition entry, the novelist Peter Lovesey wrote more than 40 mysteries. He died at 88.

Jancee Dunn, who covers health and wellness for The Times, collected her favorite advice on how to be happy from her interviews with a wide range of professionals, including F.B.I. negotiators and dream researchers. Some suggested finding opportunities for delight; others look for little exercises in gratitude or ways to have more meaningful interactions.

And then there’s Cher’s approach to not sweating the small stuff: “If it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter.”

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