I’m delighted to announce that we will be holding our first New York Times subscriber event in Ottawa on Sept. 5. Julie Davis, a White House correspondent, will take time off from the United States’ midterm election campaign trail to discuss the vote’s significance for Canada. She’ll be joined by Jonathan Martin and Astead Herndon, two political reporters. The vote could have implications for President Trump as well as areas vital to Canada’s interests, such as trade. It’s all happening at the National Gallery of Canada, and I’ll be moderating.

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Tune In

A new month means a new list of recommendations from Watching, our guide to screens big and small, for Netflix viewers in Canada. They include “Touch of Evil,” one of my favorite films (despite several flaws), directed by Orson Welles and in which he also plays a supremely corrupt police captain. Matt Groening, the cartoonist who created “The Simpsons” and “Futurama,” is now back with a new series, “Disenchantment.” It is set in a “medieval realm,” and Watching reports that it features Abbi Jacobson of “Broad City” as the voice of Princess Bean, “an alcoholic royal whose chief companions including a tiny elf (Nat Faxon) and her own ‘personal demon’ (Eric Andre).”

[Read: The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix Canada in August]

Trans Canada

—I had been eagerly awaiting Dan Bilefsky’s article about new uses for old churches in Quebec. It appeared this week and it doesn’t disappoint. Dan found that at least one former church in Montreal hosts fetish parties. Another serves as a restaurant for the socially disadvantaged as well as down-on-their-luck artists.

—Curtis Rush, a regular hockey contributor to The Times, has a very different sort of article about the sport this week. It introduces the six Azmi sisters who, wearing hijabs under their helmets, have become a force in the Toronto Women’s Ball Hockey Association.

—After decades during which grocery stores grew to factorylike proportions, small is the new thing. Kim Severson, who reports about food for The Times, visited several shops. Among them: Nada in Vancouver, where everything, including toothpaste, is sold without packaging.

—It’s perhaps not surprising that researchers at the University of British Columbia found that pedestrians talking or texting on their phones are slowpokes when crossing the street. But they also concluded that distracted walkers might be more vulnerable to being hit by cars and trucks.

Around The Times

—Jacques Wirtz, a Belgian who started with a flower nursery in 1946 and later reshaped gardens worldwide as a landscape architect, has died at the age of 93.

—Lassie always got help when Timmy was in trouble. Scientists have now looked into how helpful your dog would be.

—Apparently not content with merely being the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos of Amazon is transforming himself into a style icon.

—Apple became the first company with a value of $1 trillion this week, making it the king of a small group of megacompanies that grab a disproportionate share of corporate profits. (By comparison, Canada’s gross domestic product — the value of all we make — was about $1.6 trillion last year.) Economists are exploring the power and influence wielded by these huge entities. For workers and consumers, their findings are discouraging.