Canada’s international climate commitments and its Arctic sovereignty, security, and diplomacy, from climate finance and clean-technology export to the Northwest Passage, the Arctic Council, and Indigenous diplomacy.
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A First Nation with no road out paddled across a lake to escape the 2026 fires. The season keeps proving the same thing: Indigenous communities absorb the losses, then wait for a recovery system that isn't built for them.
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.
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.
For most of Canadian history the North meant Indigenous rights, environment and resources. Since 2024 it has meant NATO's northern flank, a dispute with Washington, and a bill Canada is scrambling to pay.
What Canada claims in the North, where its claims are contested, and why the Northwest Passage sits at the centre of the dispute.