Friday, July 10, 2026
Independent briefings and analysis on Canada’s global security, trade, migration, development, and Arctic policy.
Eight pension funds move C$2.5 trillion around the world. Almost none of it is coordinated with anything Canada calls foreign policy — and that is starting to look like a choice worth revisiting.
Ottawa has finally hit NATO’s 2% defense target. The alliance has already moved the goalposts to 5%.
A $200-million lease near Canso, Nova Scotia, marks Canada's shift from satellite user to sovereign launch state. The company that has to deliver it has never launched anything.
Open early, open late, open to everyone. In a big, cold, spread-out country, the local Tims has quietly become the public living room where Canadians actually gather — retirees at dawn, hockey teams at dusk, and most of the nation in between.
Beyond the government-to-government relationship, the Canada–US relationship is deep, rich and positive. The editorial and six stories on what still works.
Editorial The tariff war owns the headlines. The deeper Canada–US relationship — in orbit, on the grid, under the Great Lakes — is quietly thriving. The first in a series on the ties remaking Canada's place in the world.
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Jeremy Hansen became the first person from any country but the United States to reach the Moon's vicinity. How Canada bought its way to deep space says a lot about how this alliance actually works.
A buried line switched on this June now carries enough Quebec hydropower to light a fifth of New York City. It is the largest clean-energy link the two countries have built — and a template for many more.
For sixty-eight years Canada and the United States have guarded a single sky through NORAD. Now they are spending tens of billions to rebuild it — a quiet act of shared sovereignty the trade fight hasn't touched.
From Portland to Vancouver runs a single innovation belt the size of Belgium's economy, now betting jointly on AI. The only thing slowing it down is a visa system that hasn't caught up to how the region lives.
Nickel, cobalt, uranium, rare earths: the United States can't build its future without minerals it lacks and Canada holds. The two countries are quietly turning that geology into one of the healthiest parts of the relationship.
In 1909 Canada and the United States signed a treaty to share their border waters and built a commission to referee it. It still meets — and it has outlasted every quarrel the two governments have ever had.
Defense, alliances, and Canada’s strategic posture.
Supply chains, agreements, and export policy.
Immigration, students, labor, and diaspora.
Aid, humanitarian work, and multilateral engagement.
Climate diplomacy, clean tech, and the North.
Canada’s international engagements are increasingly consequential — and increasingly underreported. Global Canada exists to close that gap: structured, accessible analysis for readers who want to understand what Canada is doing in the world and why it matters. The goal is not to advocate. It is to explain.