As Alberta prepares for a historic vote on its future, a potent blend of Western alienation and American-style populism is raising a wild question: Could Canada’s energy heartland really become the 51st
Canada’s trade numbers just delivered a genuine surprise, and for once, a pleasant one. The country’s merchandise trade surplus widened to C$3.86 billion in the latest reporting month, blowing past economist forecasts
The U.S. electricity sector is witnessing a wave of consolidation as utilities race to meet soaring power demand from artificial intelligence and data centers. At the center of this transformation is NextEra
A Canada–India trade agreement may seem modest in aggregate volume, but it is disproportionately important for Canada’s diversification strategy and North American supply‑chain resilience, especially in critical minerals, clean energy, and knowledge‑intensive
Marco Rubio’s May 2026 visit to India is not diplomatic pageantry; it is an attempt to re-anchor a relationship whose economic and security stakes are now systemic for both countries and for
The Pentagon’s new AI task force is an inflection point: it could harden America’s most sensitive networks against rapidly evolving cyber threats—or quietly wire fragile, corporate-built AI into the heart of U.S.
The Trump‑Xi summit in Beijing was staged as a pageant of great‑power stability: honor guards on Tiananmen, children waving flags, two leaders speaking of partnership and peace. Yet the most consequential subject
For much of the past decade, the United States watched its influence in the Sahel steadily erode. France’s retreat from Mali, a succession of military coups across West Africa, and growing anti-Western
For the first time since World War II (not taking into account the COVID years), U.S. public debt has eclipsed the nation’s annual output, and that watershed is already altering risk calculations
Donald Trump is scheduled to make a state visit to China in mid‑May 2026, a trip widely seen as an attempt to stabilize a volatile but indispensable relationship between the world’s two
Iran’s push to collect Strait of Hormuz oil transit tariffs in Chinese yuan signals a real, though gradual, erosion of the US “petrodollar” system at the margins, but it does not yet
Pakistan’s sudden usefulness as a mediator between the United States and Iran maybe real for now, but it is unlikely to harden into a durable strategic partnership with Washington. The reason is
Every spring, a small fruit briefly reveals how globalization really works. Indian mangoes, especially Alphonso and Kesar varieties, arrive in the United States not as ordinary produce but as objects of longing,