
How Trudeau Botched the Trucker Protests Response
The Canadian prime minister’s low-profile approach harmed confidence in his leadership at home and abroad.

Canada Is Wondering What Exactly Emergencies Are
After protests are forcibly ended, questions remain about government power.

Ones and Tooze Podcast: How a Group of Truckers Found Canada’s Chokepoint
A quarter of all goods traded between the United States and Canada are transported across one bridge.

Why Are Canadian Protesters Flying Confederate Flags?
How the Canadian trucker protests became a big-tent rally of Canada’s growing far-right.

How to Make a Carbon Club Work
The Canadian system is a promising—and politically palatable—prototype for other large emitters.

Fear and Hand-Wringing in Halifax
Almost a year into the Biden administration, U.S. allies are still grappling with shaken confidence and unease.

Who Lost North America?
The project of a stronger, more united continent is on life support. It’s time for a new vision.

Who Will Win the Global War for Talent?
After the Great Lockdown will come the next Great Migration.

Another Win for China’s Hostage Diplomacy
A yearslong diplomatic dispute between China and the West has finally ended.

A Tired Canada Votes In a Listless Trudeau
Prospects for change are far off after an election that changed almost nothing.

Canada Is Having an Election No One Wants
Trudeau’s risky gamble may spell his end.

America’s Pandemic Travel Bans No Longer Make Sense
A thoughtless, unscientific policy of closed borders—even to vaccinated travelers—does a little more damage every day.

Gaming the State System
Can the Haudenosaunee Confederacy become the first Indigenous nation to secure an Olympic berth?

As Europe Reopens for Travel, North America Is Staying Shut
Scientists say it’s safe for vaccinated people to travel, but the politics of fear is keeping borders closed.

The Myth of a Green Canada
Is Trudeau too tied to oil and gas to put Canada on a progressive environmentalist course?

Alberta’s Petrostate Propaganda Has Turned Conspiratorial
The pro-oil movement is increasingly straying into conspiracy theory.

Canada Says the Proud Boys Are a Terrorist Group
The listing of the far-right organization raises serious civil liberties questions.

2020 Was the Year of Indigenous Activism in Canada
It’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to become a more ardent defender of Indigenous interests.