NATO Allies look to reconsider how responsibility is distributed across the Alliance. Rather than relying on increased defence spending alone, NATO should move to prioritize complementary capabilities and a more sustainable division of responsibilities. Canada could be a key player in this transition.
NATO’s relationship with its Indo-Pacific Four (IP4) partners, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, now runs mainly through working-level defence industrial cooperation rather than summit diplomacy. This shift began under the joint framework agreed at the 2025 Hague Summit, but it operates as four separate bilateral tracks with no common defence industrial venue. The Read More…
For most Canadians, passenger rail is not a topic of great everyday importance. Canadians made only 4.4 million journeys with Via Rail (the country’s national rail operator) in 2025, compared to almost 160 million passengers passing through Canadian airports in the same year. Canada’s passenger rail network is underdeveloped and unreliable. Canada is the only Read More…
This article written by Hala Gharaibeh examines how the breakdown of civilian protection in Sudan has increased women’s vulnerability to conflict-related sexual violence, and why addressing CRSV is essential to conflict prevention, civilian protection, and human security.
Canada has spent considerable time defining what it wants from the Indo-Pacific. The next challenge is demonstrating what it can accomplish there. Mongolia offers an opportunity to do precisely that. Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued that, in an era of great-power rivalry, middle powers need stronger networks among themselves. Canada cannot exercise influence in Read More…
When does a cyberattack become an “armed attack”? In this article, Samantha Baryer examines the growing need for a shared framework, using the WannaCry and Viasat cyberattacks to explore how non-kinetic and cascading effects could inform an evolving understanding of NATO’s Article 5 in the cyber age.
Canada’s housing crisis has made the public more susceptible to scapegoating and disinformation. Ji Young Kim examines how Russia’s Tenet Media operation exploited domestic culture wars, weakening societal resilience and undermining Canada’s reliability within NATO.
While climate change is undoubtedly an urgent security challenge for NATO, its risks extend beyond physical and environmental consequences. This article examines climate disinformation as a hybrid threat that exploits uncertainty to delay climate action, divide allies, and undermine trust. Rather than attempting to convince populations to reject climate change entirely, climate disinformation can create enough doubt and disagreement to weaken collective action.
