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Independent briefings and analysis on Canada’s global security, economy, migration, development, and Arctic policy.

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Economy

The Tim Hortons Booth Is Canada's Town Square

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.

Profile · June 22, 2026
Editor’s Picks Hand-selected reading from across the desks
  1. Security Canada's Submarine Bet Goes to Berlin, Not Seoul Ottawa has picked Germany's TKMS to build 12 submarines, turning down South Korea's Hanwha Ocean on the eve of the NATO summit.
  2. Economy Ottawa Has Signed the Deals. The Mines Are Another Matter. Canada has spent eighteen months turning its mineral wealth into diplomacy. Whether any of it becomes a working mine is the harder question.
  3. Development Canada Exports Superstars and Almost No Culture The country produces musicians, writers and actors at a rate rivalling Britain's — and has almost no strategy for turning any of it into influence. The recurring Eurovision debate is a way into why.
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Bilateral Series

Canada’s relationships, remade. One lead essay on each — the United States, Japan, the Caribbean and Nepal — with the full stories inside.

Illustration for “Beneath the Quarrel, a Continent That Works” — a globe scene in the Global Canada hero style. Canada & The United States

Beneath the Quarrel, a Continent That Works

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.

 Illustration for “Two Middle Powers Bet the Old Order Is Over” — a globe scene in the Global Canada hero style. Canada & Japan

Two Middle Powers Bet the Old Order Is Over

Canada and Japan have spent 2026 wiring themselves together — minerals, gas, satellites, food. It is a hedge dressed as a partnership, and a wager on a world that no longer works the way it did.

 Illustration for “Canada Was the Caribbean's Banker for a Century. That Era Is Ending.” — a finance scene in the Global Canada hero style. Canada & The Caribbean

Canada Was the Caribbean's Banker for a Century. That Era Is Ending.

As Canadian banks cash out of the region, Ottawa is arriving in new guises — underwriting climate debt, funding a force in Haiti, importing farm labour, watching Guyana boom. The relationship is being rewritten on every front at once.

 Illustration for “Nepal's Most Important Diplomats Don't Work for the Government” — a globe scene in the Global Canada hero style. Canada & Nepal

Nepal's Most Important Diplomats Don't Work for the Government

Canada has no embassy in Kathmandu — just an honorary consul. Yet the relationship is booming, built almost entirely by migrants, students and nurses. It is diplomacy from the bottom up.
Editorial

What Leverage Does a Middle Power Actually Have?

The Carney–Trump relationship is being sold as skilled Canadian diplomacy. The harder question is what, structurally, a country in Canada's position can and cannot buy with charm.

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Latest Analysis

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  1. Arctic How Canada's Arctic Stopped Being a Domestic File Jul 3
  2. Security Canada's Big Asia Bet Blew Up Before It Was Even Staffed Jul 2
  3. Economy This Canada Day, Canada Faces Bigger Question Than CUSMA's Survival Jul 1
  4. Security Canada Isn't Trying to Build GPT-6. It's Trying to Write the Rules for It. Jun 30
  5. Economy The Country That Runs the World's Mines Is Losing Control of Them Jun 28
  6. Economy The Superpower Canadians Don't Know They Have Jun 26
  7. Economy Saskatchewan's Boring Rock Became a Strategic Asset Overnight Jun 21
  8. Economy Shopify Is the Biggest Canadian Company Nobody Calls Canadian Jun 20

Themes

Security

Defense, alliances, and Canada’s strategic posture.

Economy

Trade, investment, supply chains, and economic diplomacy.

Migration

Immigration, students, labor, and diaspora.

International Development

Aid, humanitarian work, and multilateral engagement.

Environment & Arctic

Climate diplomacy, clean tech, and the North.

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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.