The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English-language national newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in seven cities across the country.

The Globe and Mail is often considered the newspaper of record in Canada. With a weekly circulation of two million, it is the country's second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star, and the largest national daily newspaper. The Globe and Mail is a division of CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc. Its parent company, CTVglobemedia, also owns the Canadian television network CTV.

In recent years, The Globe and Mail has made changes to its format and layout, such as the introduction of colour photographs, a separate tabloid book-review section and the creation of the Review section on arts, entertainment and culture. Although the paper is sold throughout Canada and has long called itself "Canada's National Newspaper", The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper, publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition that are not included in the national edition.

As a result, it is sometimes ridiculed for being too focused on the Greater Toronto Area, part of a wider humorous portrayal of Torontonians being blind to the greater concerns of the nation. (A similar criticism is sometimes applied to The New York Times). Critics sometimes refer to the paper as the Toronto Globe and Mail or Toronto's National Newspaper. Recently, in an effort to gain market share in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail began publishing a three-page section of British Columbia news in the B.C. edition of its paper.