The small but bitter clash over the future of the second-busiest border crossing between the United States and Canada is set to continue, at least for now. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., met for more than five hours on Saturday but did not reach an agreement on resolving the ongoing feud […]

For decades, the world has thought of Canada as America’s friendly northern neighbor — a responsible, earnest, if somewhat boring, land of hockey fans and single-payer health care. On the big issues, it has long played the global Boy Scout, reliably providing moral leadership on everything from ozone protection to land-mine eradication to gay rights. The late novelist Douglas Adams […]

This summer, David Jacobson steps down from the position of U.S. ambassador to Canada, which he has held since 2009. A lawyer and big-dollar fundraiser for the U.S. President, Jacobson’s tenure was marked by progress between the two countries on border co-operation—and by the drawn-out controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil-sands crude from Alberta to […]

Canada’s prime minister recently addressed the CFR, a globalist think tank who have been a driving force behind the push towards deeper North American integration. The U.S. and Canada are now further advancing this agenda through the Beyond the Border agreement. Both countries are increasing bilateral border transportation and infrastructure coordination. This includes a common approach to border management, security […]

Today’s arrest of the mayor of Montreal, Michael Applebaum, on conspiracy and fraud charges, coming on the heels of Toronto’s mayor apparently smoking something he shouldn’t, is prompting some tut-tutting on the south side of the border. “The mayor of a Canadian city was arrested early this morning and it wasn’t even the guy who smoked crack on video,” Gawker […]