Rachel Potter analyzes Kevin Hamilton’s appointment to NATO, arguing that it reflects Canada’s expanding institutional influence within the alliance while highlighting the growing strategic importance of the Caucasus and Central Asia as NATO deepens its engagement amid rising geopolitical instability.
NATO’s own reporting names Taiwan as a direct stake in European security and yet relations with Taipei remain limited, Anastasia Crook examines how NATO members can still build practical cooperation with Taiwan without waiting for a consensus to be reached on Taiwan’s status.
Somali referee Omar Artan had described officiating at a World Cup as the biggest dream of his life. That dream ended at passport control. Artan was interrogated for eleven hours at Miami International Airport before being denied entry to the United States on grounds of an alleged association with suspected members of terror organizations. He Read More…
NATO Mission Iraq seeks to include WPS in its longstanding operations. However, the recent killing of Iraqi-Canadian women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed highlights that insecurity for women remains prominent in Iraq, as women’s rights lag in the face of continued instability. As it supports Iraq’s reconstruction, NATO Mission Iraq must undertake a renewed commitment to implement WPS across its operations, support a safe environment for women’s rights defenders and civil society, and foster sustainable peacebuilding and societal resilience.
As NATO races to integrate commercial satellites into its collective defence architecture, can Canada afford to remain a passive consumer of allied space infrastructure? In this article, Kaya Dupuis argues that Canada must modernize its space governance framework, through updated export controls and a dedicated space security policy, to position its world-class space industry as a formal contributor to NATO security before the rules of governing commercial military space are written by others.
This article will examine how Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, is responding to the surge in spoofed and scam phone calls that disproportionately target older Canadians, eroding trust in basic communications systems.
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.
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.
