Tuesday Briefing: Canada’s Momentous Election

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Voters cast ballots yesterday at a high school in Montreal. Credit…Nasuna Stuart-Ulin for The New York Times

Canadians voted in an election scrambled by Trump’s threats

Polls opened across Canada’s six time zones yesterday in a momentous election that will decide the country’s response to President Trump’s trade war and annexation threats. Many Canadians believe the election is the most important of their lifetime.

Opinion surveys showed the Liberals, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, with a slight advantage over the Conservative Party and its leader, Pierre Poilievre. We have live updates and we’re tracking results here.

Three more parties are expected to secure small numbers of seats in the country’s parliament, the House of Commons. The two leaders vying to become Canada’s next prime minister are central to voters’ choices, and they offer different personalities, experiences and visions for the nation at a critical juncture.

The Trump effect: Just as polls opened, Trump again insisted that Canadians should “vote for the man” who would make their country part of the U.S. as the 51st state. The new government in Ottawa will need to deal with Trump’s tariffs, which have pushed Canada closer to recession, and his coveting of the country’s vast resources.

A comedian takes the stage: The actor Mike Myers spoke to The Times about his political involvement in Canada’s campaign to stand up to Trump.

Hockey Canada trial begins with first witness, security video footage

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On a warm June night in 2018, more than a dozen members of Canada’s 2018 World Junior hockey team bypassed a long line of waiting customers, had their IDs checked and were funneled into Jack’s Bar in London, Ont. They wore T-shirts and several wore backward baseball caps. Some gave others fist bumps, and one draped his arm around another’s shoulder. Inside the bar, a group of the players gathered at a corner of a long counter, just beyond a packed dance floor, appearing to order drinks. Seven years later, five members of that team sat in a stuffy wood-paneled courtroom just a few blocks...

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