Issue 1 2026

It’s Sunday March 8th as I write, the morning after Prime Minister Carney flew home from Tokyo after a whirlwind 24-hour visit. During meetings with Prime Minister Takaichi, Carney signed a new ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ with Japan that aims to deepen ties in defense, technology, critical minerals and energy projects, including LNG, hydrogen and nuclear technologies.

For a humble quarterly like ours, a prime ministerial visit to this distant outpost of Canada – days before we go to press! – was a chance too good to pass up. But what could we write about a visit with no public events that lasted under 24 hours from March 6 to 7