If you caught “Hadestown” during its run in Edmonton, I’d like to hear what you thought about the collaboration: nytcanada@nytimes.com.
Read: An Unexpected New Stop on the Road to Broadway: Edmonton
The Limits of Tomorrow
Montreal and Toronto have emerged as centers for artificial intelligence, the field that Cade Metz covers as The Times’s emerging technologies reporter.
In a Q. and A., Mr. Metz offered some caution about the hype surrounding A.I. and acknowledged that he’s a “techno-skeptic.” Like me, he’s also pining for voice recognition software that can transcribe recordings of interviews.
Read: Busting the Myths About A.I. Invading Our Lives
Lessons From You
Through email, comments and social media, readers of The Times constantly tell us things we didn’t know. We’ve compiled a brief list of some of this year’s highlights. One of the most touching comes from Neil Mavin, a truck driver from Kitchener, Ontario:
Life on the road gets lonely. A wave or a child pulling the imaginary air horn warms our tough hearts. Not a man or woman driver can resist the horn at that request.
Read: 11 Things We Learned From Our Readers This Year
The Commonwealth Challenge
After a roaring start, the effort to get more new subscribers for the Canada Letter than the Australia Letter by the end of the year stalled over the past week.
So I’m pleading with you again to foist the idea of subscribing (it’s free) on friends, family, neighbors and passing acquaintances. Our national reputation, at least among the editors, depends on it.
Carol Fahey of Oakville, Ontario, an early and loyal subscriber whom I met on a Times Journeys voyage last year, wrote in to say that she was looking for something quick and easy about our campaign to post on social media.
One option is to use this link to the newsletter where I first made my plea.
Alternately, here’ some text you can cut and paste into Facebook:
Canadians: Canada Letter, The New York Times’s weekly newsletter about Canada and for Canadians, has been challenged by the editors to sign up more new subscribers by the end of the year than the Australia Letter. The prize? Um, mainly national pride. Do your part by signing up here (it’s free): https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/canada-letter.
Remember, there’s also an individual prize for the best account of efforts to enlist new subscribers. Send those to nytcanada@nytimes.com. The begging ends soon, I promise.
Centre Ice
—Montreal will be in Ottawa on Saturday for an outdoor game at TD Place, just a few blocks from my home, which doubles as The Times’s Ottawa bureau. While the game comes just days before the centennial of the first National Hockey League match, a 1917 rule that banned goalies from dropping to the ice won’t be revived for the occasion.
Trans Canada
—The shoreline of Vancouver Island has produced another grisly find.
—Parents now searching in vain for Fingerlings, a robotic monkey that passes wind, can blame a Montreal company for their holiday frustration.
—British Columbia’s Securities Commission has found that Paul Se Hui Oei bilked investors of about $4 million. But it’s unclear if anyone will recover their money.
By IAN AUSTEN
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/world/canada/haiti-broadway-via-edmonton-canada-letter.html
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