Have you ever found yourself cheering for the referees? Not applauding a good call, but standing up and shouting in support of what they're doing during the game?

Probably not. It isn't normal. And yet that is what I feel like doing after a weekend spent reviewing the...

Governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney has been selected as the next Governor of the Bank of England, a bold move by one of the world's oldest central banks that could pay dividends for Britain and for Europe.

The choice by U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer...

Barack Obama won, and will serve a second term as 44th president of the United States. But Canada may be a winner too.

In the 2012 U.S. elections the most important issue for Canada was the same as for most American voters: how to get the U.S. economy...

In the three U.S. presidential candidates' debates, and in one vice presidential candidates' debate, Canada came up frequently. President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney took note of Canadian energy exports to the United States and the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline and other pipelines connecting the two countries....

On Canadian Thanksgiving Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a major foreign policy address to the faculty and students of the Virginia Military Institute. He did not mention Canada once.

Yet the speech contained some messages that Canadians may find interesting -- and familiar.

The main...

Last night the first presidential candidates' debate of the 2012 election took place in Denver. It was the start of a new phase in the election campaign -- the final month, when a larger number of Americans, including likely and unlikely voters, begins to pay attention.

It was...

John Mellencamp's song "Small Town" is a catchy reminder of the way the world looks from the perspective of the little communities that dot the United States and Canada, too. It is worth humming under your breath as you read the news that residents of the...

Senator Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat and one of the leading figures in the Democratic majority, wants the U.S. government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (known as CFIUS) to intervene to block the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) -- a state-owned firm -- from...

Repatriating convicted terrorist Omar Khadr to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence is the right thing for the Obama administration to offer to do, and the Harper government has a right to say "thanks, but no thanks."

An international campaign to generate sympathy for Khadr as a "child...

Success has many fathers, the saying goes. If only there was a paternity test to sort out the claimants of credit for the Canadian economy.

Canadian author Stephen Marche is the latest to weigh in, with a short opinion piece published on Bloomberg.com. Marche argued two points: first,...

What's in a name? Now that the construction of a second bridge between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario is moving forward, the question of what to call it is more pressing.

When it was first contemplated, it was referred to as the Detroit River International Crossing, or the DRIC. This...

It took me a few minutes to wipe the coffee off my computer screen this morning after I'd read an article entitled, "How Obama Lost Canada" in the online edition of Foreign Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations journal. Canada? Lost? Really?

The authors are two...

The first big news out of the Los Cabos G-20 summit was unrelated to the G-20 itself. It was the U.S. announcement that Mexico has won a formal invitation to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. On June 19, Canada won an invitation as well. Both...

Michigan is a land of stubborn dreamers. And it is home to loyal skeptics, who doubt it can be done but stand with you when you try and can still embrace you when you fail. Its dreamers must be stubborn to overcome the skeptics; its skeptics must be loyal to...

Canada is showing up in U.S. news media reports more than usual these days, and the stories suggest that a crime wave is underway. How can this be happening in sleepy, quiet Canada?

First it was the lurid reports of feet and limbs being mailed to political party offices in...

If Justin Bieber came by my office and gave me singing lessons and fashion advice, I still would not be able to replicate his teen idol success: I'm too old, and honestly, I don't have enough hair left to adopt his look. He and Jaden Smith can sing "Never Say...

The Camp David Group of Eight (G8) Summit was oddly clarifying. With Europe riven with divisions over the euro and the sclerosis of welfare states in aging societies, the United States wrapped up in increasingly parochial domestic politics, Japan adrift and Russia backsliding into authoritarianism, Canada stood alone...

President Obama and the leaders of the world's most successful alliance -- one that deterred nuclear war and kept the peace in Europe after centuries of conflict -- gather in Chicago this weekend to talk about the future.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, has seen more fighting since...

French voters dumped a controversial conservative president who imposed austerity (albeit a very modest dose) and elected a socialist to take his place last week. One year ago, many acknowledged the unpopularity of Nicolas Sarkozy, but few thought he was beatable. French Socialists were in disarray following the...

In a recent article for Commentary Magazine, international relations scholar and former Reagan administration official Henry Nau suggested two metaphoric approaches to U.S. foreign policy.

The first is the jigsaw puzzle, where players (governments) work together with the pieces to realize an outcome that all...