Morning Update: The evidence of progress

Good morning. It has gone largely unreported, but the basic measures of human well-being have continued to get better in recent decades. More on our quiet progress below, along with measles updates and what happened yesterday on the federal election campaign trail.Today’s headlines

• After a day of elation, markets slide as the U.S.-China trade war escalates
• TC Energy CEO touts Asia as key to Canada’s economic diversification away from U.S.
• Trump order prompts a Canadian cancer research group to scrub gender-inclusive language from U.S.-funded trials
• Meet the Canadian linguist taking the crossword world by storm