Canada Today: The Times Visits Toronto, and a Possible Gain From Trump
Ms. Kantor and Ms. Einhorn offered this description of the experience: We came to Toronto one last time — not to report on the Canadian sponsors
and Syrian refugees whose stories we told but to present our work in person.
Read: Surge Pricing for Migrants Ends in a Penalty for a Taxi Owner Elsewhere in The Times this week, Dan Levin looked at British Columbia’s still uncertain election result; I wrote about the Bombardier family’s fall from grace in Quebec; Craig Smith updated the Ontario
and Quebec flooding and the debate over cultural appropriation reared up again.
Times Insider Events brought my colleagues Jodi Kantor
and Catrin Einhorn to Toronto to discuss how they put together their deeply reported and insightful group of stories, "Refugees Welcome," on Canada’s unique citizen sponsorship program.
By IAN AUSTENMAY 12, 2017
This week, The New York Times held a special event
that allowed our Canadian subscribers to meet some of our journalists and peek behind the curtain at how a great series is made.
Read: Tillerson, in Alaska, Gives No Hint on Paris Climate Accord President Trump’s administration has floated a number of trial balloons
that have raised fears of a trade war that would likely not do Canada’s economy much good.
Mouhamad al-Hajj, who worried in our final story about the end of the sponsorship year, seemed more at ease: His employer has offered him more hours than he can accept,
and he caps his work days at four per week so that he can continue to study English full-time.