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Budgets, bank transfers and Trump's America fill The Globe's week

Canadian sovereignty connects Stephanie Levitz's spending explainer, Stefanie Marotta's payments episode and Andrew Coyne's conversation with Robert Kagan.

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What links money arriving in a bank account to Canada finding its footing beside an unpredictable United States? Across The Globe and Mail's uploads, sovereignty became a practical question as well as a political one.

In "Where Carney is spending billions," senior reporter Stephanie Levitz unpacked a federal budget that stretches from Indigenous infrastructure to museums, galleries and a plan to end homelessness. The title, Masters of our Destiny, supplied the government's framing. Separate clips captured Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne facing opposition jeers and Pierre Poilievre criticizing the proposed grocery-benefit top-up.

Banking reporter Stefanie Marotta approached the same theme through something more everyday: receiving money without waiting for it to clear. "Why Canada's new instant payment system is about sovereignty" explains the rollout in terms of both faster transactions and reduced reliance on the United States. It is already among the channel's strongest sources of daily viewing.

The week's most watched upload was "The midterms, Trump and Canada | Talking Heads with Andrew Coyne," reaching about 55,000 views. Coyne pressed Robert Kagan on whether rejecting Trump also means rejecting Trumpism, then turned to what Canada should do. Kagan's advice was to resist pressure and build relationships abroad, rather than assume an election result restores the old international order.

The channel added 2,000 subscribers over the week, although its current daily viewing is well below its usual level. Nearby in subscriber size, The Root had a much larger week of audience growth, while Juno News added no subscribers. For The Globe and Mail, the payments episode gives the week's broad geopolitical questions a distinctly concrete application: how Canadians get paid.

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