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Strategic analysis and actionable insights on Canada’s economic and strategic position in a shifting global order.
Major Reports
A Smarter Immigration Strategy
Five questions that could help shape Canada’s future
Aligning the Stars: How to deepen the Canada-U.S. relationship in four critical sectors
How deepened strategic alignment can enhance North American security, competitiveness, and resilience
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Articles
Davos ’26: Making sense of a new world order
John Stackhouse on 11 themes that emerged from the World Economic Forum.
Heavy oil market heats up
An American plan to revive Venezuelan oil has raised concerns that Canada’s dominance in U.S. crude markets could start to erode
Sowing the seeds of higher prices
What’s at stake for both the Canadian and U.S. agriculture sectors amid new tariff threats
The Canada-Alberta MoU: A new energy alliance
The broad contours of the deal opens the door to Alberta becoming a continental energy superpower
The three forces redefining how the world works
How frontier technology, geopolitical trade tensions and a new security paradigm converge to redefine how nations, markets and societies operate
How to revive economic ties with India
The Carney and Modi governments will need to declare what their mutual interests are in an increasingly divided world, writes John Stackhouse
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