Ottawa and New Delhi Fell Out. Nobody Told the Diaspora.
Two governments have spent years at a diplomatic low. The people, the students and the trade underneath the quarrel never stopped, and the gap between the two is the whole story.
Editorial
Editorial
The publication’s own view. Each editorial is pegged to a specific decision, vote, or moment, and asks a structural question about what Canada is choosing, and what the choice reveals. We describe; we don’t campaign.
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.
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.
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.
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.