Understanding politics across borders and divides
Canada and the EU launched an Alliance for the Future in Montreal on October 30, with deals on digital trade and minerals but no associate membership label.
Published: 25 October 2026 Albertans voted on 19 October to stay in Canada. In the separation question, roughly three-quarters of voters chose “remain a province of Canada” over starting the legal process toward a binding independence referendum, according to unofficial results. Premier Danielle Smith, who opposed separation, has said she will not hold another referendum … Read more
Last Updated: July 2026 Overview Three countries share a continent, a trade agreement and a set of anti-corruption treaty obligations, and they score 75, 64 and 27 on the same index. Transparency International put Canada at 75, the United States at 64 and Mexico at 27 on the 2025 corruption index, with the American score … Read more
Last Updated: July 2026 Overview The Americas legalized assisted dying through a route Europe mostly did not use: constitutional litigation. Colombia’s Constitutional Court decriminalized euthanasia in 1997, before any European parliament acted, and Ecuador’s court followed in 2024. Canada’s framework also began with a Supreme Court ruling, in Carter in 2015, rather than with legislation. … Read more
Published: July 19, 2026 Overview Canada’s politics in 2026 has been defined less by an internal contest than by the country next door. Prime Minister Mark Carney, the former central banker who took over the Liberal Party and the premiership in early 2025 and then won a come-from-behind election victory that April, spent his first … Read more