Canada’s economic relationships (trade, investment, energy and industry) and the diplomacy around them, including its reliance on U.S. market access, efforts to diversify, and its position in critical-mineral and clean-energy supply chains.
Ottawa has built the most powerful Indigenous-equity architecture in its history and, in the same year, a law that can override Indigenous objections. Which instrument prevails will decide whether Canada can deliver the minerals and energy its allies are counting on.
The first Canadian foreign minister to visit Pakistan in nearly two decades arrives with resumed canola shipments, an investment treaty in progress and an ASEAN seat to fill, as Ottawa widens its economic footing across the Indo-Pacific.
Negotiators have circled a Canada–India trade agreement for more than a decade. Politics keeps pulling it off the table just as the economics pull it back on.
Diplomats were expelled; the remittances, the pension capital and the cross-border deals were not. The financial corridor between the two countries kept widening straight through the freeze.
The tariff war owns the headlines. The deeper Canada–US relationship (in orbit, on the grid, under the Great Lakes) is quietly thriving.
Canada and Japan are exploring something rare between market economies: shared physical reserves of the minerals Beijing can cut off. It is industrial policy dressed as friendship.
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.
The first cargo left Kitimat in June 2025, and Canada joined the ranks of LNG exporters. A Japanese trading house owns a slice of the terminal, and a quarter of the gas is bound for Japan.
Scotiabank and CIBC were once as much a part of Caribbean high streets as the churches. In 2026 they are cashing out, and the region is left asking who becomes its banker now.
Long before the strategic partnership, a trade pact was already rewiring the food relationship. It may be the most concrete thing the two countries actually share.
Honda promised the biggest auto investment in Canadian history. Two years later it is shelved. The private-sector spine of the Canada–Japan relationship bends with the market and the trade war.
Canada has spent eighteen months turning its mineral wealth into diplomacy. Whether any of it becomes a working mine is the harder question.
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.
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.
As Washington signals it may let CUSMA lapse rather than renew it, the 2026 review is becoming the clearest test yet of Carney's bet that Canada can afford to walk away from a bad deal.
Canadian companies mine in over a hundred countries. The bargain that made that possible (extract cheaply, take the profits home) is coming apart, and Ottawa's critical-minerals push is caught in the contradiction.
Canada feeds a large share of the world and controls a third of the mineral that makes crops grow. As choke points and supply shocks multiply, that footprint has become strategic.
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.
Nutrien mines the mineral that grows the world's food. A war 8,000 kilometres away turned its Saskatchewan reserves from a commodity into something closer to leverage.
It moved $378 billion in goods last year and let a weaver in Ghana sell straight to a customer in Berlin. It is also a Canadian champion the country has never learned to claim.
Enbridge moves most of the oil Canada sells to the United States, the continent's busiest energy link, and lately a pioneer of Indigenous ownership and an all-of-the-above energy strategy.
The trade agreement that governs roughly three-quarters of Canada’s exports: how it replaced NAFTA, what changed, and why its 2026 review matters.