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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is Canada's most widely read national newspaper, covering Canadian politics, business, and culture from Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver.
What is The Globe and Mail?
The Globe and Mail has served as Canada's national newspaper of record since its founding in 1844, occupying a position in Canadian public life roughly analogous to what The New York Times holds in the United States. Its coverage of federal politics, Bay Street business, and international affairs is read by decision-makers across government, finance, and industry, giving it an influence that extends well beyond its circulation numbers. The Thomson family, through Woodbridge Company, holds a controlling interest in the publication, which also owns The Globe's digital subscription business and the Report on Business platform.
The Globe's digital platform combines a metered paywall with a tiered subscription model offering access to different levels of content — including the Report on Business, which carries a separate subscription tier for financial professionals. The Globe app provides access to the full digital newspaper, including the e-paper edition that mirrors the print layout for readers who prefer a traditional reading format. Globe Investor, the financial data and portfolio tracking tool embedded in the Globe's digital ecosystem, adds real-time market data infrastructure to the publication's technology stack.
When The Globe and Mail's digital services fail, the most visible symptom is authentication breakdown — subscribers who attempt to log in find themselves redirected in loops or presented with errors rather than article content. The e-paper edition, which depends on a PDF-rendering pipeline, can become unavailable independently of the main website during publishing system problems. Globe Investor's market data feeds may stop updating, showing stale prices during trading hours when accuracy matters. The mobile app's offline reading cache — which pre-downloads content for commuters — can fail to populate during overnight sync if the content API is experiencing problems.
Outage.gg tracks Globe and Mail digital service status using community reports from Canadian subscribers. If the Globe's website or app is down, login is failing, or the e-paper is unavailable, the live status page shows current impact from readers across Canada.
Common The Globe and Mail Problems
Issues users most frequently report when The Globe and Mail is having problems.
Login failures
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Matchmaking problems
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Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about The Globe and Mail outages and server status.
You can check the live The Globe and Mail server status at outage.gg/services/the-globe-and-mail. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
The Globe and Mail can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/the-globe-and-mail and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
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