At the 2025 NATO Summit, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that critical mineral expenditures would contribute to Canada’s 5% NATO defense spending contribution. Key to this new positioning is the building of essential industrial infrastructure necessary for critical mineral development and exportation, of which 1.5% of the new commitment is dedicated to. This new approach Read More…
What does Mark Carney’s decision to re-engage China signal about Canada’s strategic options in a more coercive global economy? Tasneem Gedi argues that Ottawa’s limited recalibration with Beijing reflects an unavoidable strategy of hedging amid U.S. unpredictability. While such engagement may expand Canada’s room for maneuver in an increasingly coercive global economy, it carries risks and thus must be pursued narrowly, conditionally and in close alignment with Canada’s alliance commitments.
Sudan has descended into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises of the moment, with more than 11 million people internally displaced, over 21 million facing acute food insecurity, and several areas assessed at emergency orfamine-level conditions. The war that precipitated this crisis began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Read More…
Au cours de la dernière décennie, il est clair que lorsque les femmes participent aux décisions de sécurité, la paix est plus durable. Une étude portant sur plus de 180 accords montre que ceux impliquant des femmes ont 35 % de chances supplémentaires de durer au-delà de quinze ans. Dans le Sahel, leur participation à Read More…
Could Canada’s new trade policy serve as a template for the rest of NATO? This article analyses Canada’s trade diversification strategy as a case study to assess its viability as a model for achieving economic security among NATO member states.
This article discusses how the adoption of quantum sensing technologies will likely advance cybersecurity by enabling greater protection of infrastructure, detection of attacks, and attribution to attackers, particularly in the Arctic.
On January 3, 2026, the United States announced that its forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flown him to New York to face charges. Within minutes of President Donald Trump’s message breaking across social media platforms, an array of AI-generated images, recycled footage, and outright false claims began circulating widely. Some purported to Read More…
The world at present is situated before an interchange between growing geopolitical tensions and surging national defence budgets. Albeit, the cycle is complicated by the current Climate Crisis. It is no longer weapons or foes in which the battlefield is defined, but the environment itself. Modern armed forces, including Canada’s, must therefore confront threats emerging Read More…
