http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/world/canada/canada-today-cruising-royals-blackberrys-and-blueberries.html 2016-09-30 23:56:24 Canada Today: Cruising, Royals, BlackBerrys and Blueberries The recent sailing of the 1,700-passenger Crystal Serenity through the Northwest Passage has prompted calls for limiting the size of ships in the Canadian Arctic. === We’re trying something new: ABOARD THE CRYSTAL SERENITY, off Nova Scotia — Normally my connection to Times readers is virtual. When I’m lucky, some of you take time to send me an email or reply to my posts on Twitter. This past week, however, I’ve been traveling with about three dozen readers who joined a Before picking up our group, the Crystal Serenity sailed through the Northwest Passage. With about 1,700 passengers and crew members, it is by far the largest passenger ship to have made that voyage. It went without trouble and was welcomed by many Northerners. But the sailing has prompted BlackBerry crumble. Royal tourists. Back in the footlights. Having served his prison time, Mr. Drabinsky is again In the kitchen. Here are some recent articles from The Times, not necessarily related to Canada, that I found interesting: • The Times’s economic columnist Eduardo Porter • Cricket often conjures up images of genteel English greens and tea-sipping spectators. But international cricket is now plagued by • Wild blueberries are a staple of Quebec and parts of Atlantic Canada. They’re smaller and tastier than commercially grown varieties. But • Daphne Matziaraki followed a Greek coast guard captain for a week “as he pulled family after family, child after child, from the ocean and saved their lives.” Her documentary about a coast guard overwhelmed by refugees makes for A native of Windsor, Ontario, Ian Austen was educated in Toronto, lives in Ottawa and has reported about Canada for The New York Times for over a decade. Twitter: @ianrausten