City flags at half-mast for National Day of Mourning (Workers' Mourning Day)

Greg Kearney, an editorial cartoonist in Topeka, Kansas, and a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) is using the organization’s database to help his wife prove Canadian ancestry and gain citizenship. His family is Canadian on his father’s side, and he already holds a Canadian passport, but he wanted to do the same for his wife, whose Canadian roots are older. “They go back a long way but you don’t have to,” he told National Post in an interview. “All you have to do is get to the Canadian ancestor closest to you. So for instance, in her case, her great-grandfather. They were...