Every day, the news tells you what happened. It rarely tells you what is actually driving it — the capital, the resources, and the decisions moving underneath the headline.
That gap is why I started Corridor Intelligence.
I served in Canada’s Prime Minister’s Office during the 2008 financial crisis, and as Chief of Staff in the Senate of Canada during the pandemic. Two of the highest-pressure rooms in the country, in two of its hardest years. The lesson I carried out of both is simple: the story the public sees and the forces actually deciding the outcome are rarely the same thing.
Most people follow the news. Few understand what is actually driving it.
Corridor Intelligence is strategic analysis for decision-makers. Signal over noise. Not opinion for its own sake, and not outrage — a clear read on how power, capital, and resources move, from someone who has sat in the rooms where those calls get made.
What I cover
- Geopolitics and conflict — where power is contested, and why it matters to operators.
- Strategic resources — critical minerals, energy, and the supply chains that decide leverage.
- Intelligence and security — the machinery most analysis skips.
- North American opportunity — trade, capital, and the corridor between Canada and the United States.
- Power and decision-making — how the highest-stakes calls actually get made.
You will get a regular, disciplined read in English and French, written to be acted on rather than just consumed. Mostly evergreen thinking that stays useful long after the week it was written, with timely analysis when events warrant it.
A word on posture: I am analytical, not adversarial. I describe how the machinery works — how capital, states, and resources move — without taking partisan sides. That is a deliberate choice, and it is the standard every edition will hold to.
If you make decisions that don’t allow a second draft, this is written for you.
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— Joseph Soares