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Canada cannot build every layer of the AI stack. But it can, over time, become an essential supplier for the world.
Tariffs and global shocks have raised the cost of standing still. Resilience now means scale, technology and diversification.
Ottawa’s new AI strategy treats sovereignty as a question of compute, cloud and control. First Nations have been asking who holds authority over...
How the Israeli Palestinian conflict has impacted the Canadian Jewish and Muslim communities.
Iran’s January uprising demonstrated extraordinary courage. It also exposed the difference between mass protest and a national movement capable of...
Waiting out Trump assumes the old America returns after 2028. Canada should invest in people who understand why it won’t.
Canada has built one of the world’s most sophisticated systems for attracting highly educated immigrants. But attracting human capital is not the...
As the rules-based order breaks down, business as usual is no longer an option.
Canada and Europe have been growing closer for years but […]
Elizabeth MacCallum, the Middle East specialist sidelined inside External Affairs, argued against partition. Lester Pearson, aligned with US strategy,...
A major shift towards more resilient, durable relationship than ever in their over 80 years of diplomatic ties.
Sino-American relations in the 1940s look little like the 2020s on the surface, yet the underlying dynamics of countervailing forces are remarkably...
A bibliometric analysis of 1,663 Chinese IR articles finds that scholarship frames NATO through great-power competition and largely reinforces...
Twenty-five years after Canada stood with the United States following […]
With CUSMA weakened and the WTO in decline, regional agreements offer Canada a path through a trading order increasingly shaped by tariffs, sanctions...
Be brave enough to evolve Canada’s democracy by authentically enfranchising youth.
Alberta’s October Referendum Shows Why Countering Foreign Interference Is Only Part of Rebuilding Democratic Trust.
Canada’s long-standing commitments to global human rights seem to be dwindling under new asylum and security legislation.
Canada’s success in Asia already leverages Indigenous partnership, time to think bigger.
Nearly four decades after Canada tied its economic future to […]
At the 2026 Victoria Forum, CIC Victoria President Chris Kilford argues that Canada’s defence shift is not a turn toward militarization.
Canada says enough. No more bad deals, no more waiting on a partner that can’t be trusted.
The U.S.-Israeli Wars on Iran Achieved the Opposite of Their Intended Goal.
Energy crisis as an opportunity, but not the one Canada thinks.
Existing pipelines can blunt Iran’s leverage today, but renewables are the only way to end it.
Canada’s four most recent federal Arctic strategies reveal how Ottawa reconstituted Russia from a pragmatic partner in Arctic cooperation into a...
With a tariff deadline looming, Canada and the United States […]
The most capable warship in the world means nothing if Canada waits a generation to receive it.
Sixteen years of parliamentary statements, defence documents, military procurement, and joint exercises tell a consistent story: alignment with the US...
After five months of escalation, Washington is still searching for an exit from a war whose aims were never clearly defined.
Ottawa’s new AI strategy addresses models and chips. The real contest for AI sovereignty is happening one layer up, in deployment, and Canada is not...
The Foreign Interference Commission identified disinformation as the single greatest threat to Canadian democracy, yet Ottawa’s signature...
Canada may have to pay a steep price whether it […]
A new Strategic Partnership will be judged by whether it delivers shared economic opportunity, democratic accountability, and meaningful inclusion for...
Ottawa is investing billions to expand domestic AI capacity and reduce reliance on foreign infrastructure. But as extreme weather risks grow, the...
As US, Russian and Chinese rivalry intensifies, the UN faces a narrowing window to keep outer space secure for all.
Governments are spending billions in taxpayer money to subsidize the depletion of the world’s fish.
Two siloed DND strategies, one on Women, Peace and Security and the other on quantum science and technology, share more ground than either document...
Better models and Canadian data centres will not fix public-service AI if governments cannot agree on which data to trust.
Why young Canadians are quietly opting out, and what it means for the rest of us.
Ottawa is about to choose a headquarters for a new defence bank. The decision will say as much about Canada as the institution itself.
Why Canada’s productivity crisis is rooted in its inability to build the industrial clusters that keep talent, capital and frontier industries at...
The failure of American colonists to win Canadian hearts and minds 250 years ago offers lessons for responding to current meddling in the Alberta...
Where global platforms optimize for engagement, the EBU is built around trust, public service and shared standards. That distinction matters for...
Connecting Canada’s foreign policy to our economic aspirations.
NATO’s 2021 climate commitments are widening the gap between members. The operational consequences are being ignored.
Hosting the World Cup is not simply about welcoming the world. It is about governing who gets to enter it.
Canada’s financial intelligence system is moving toward AI, but the technology only works as well as the data, the oversight, and the governance...
The rules of the game with Canada’s most important partner […]
As Canada seeks to accelerate AI adoption, building public trust will require governing not only the data AI systems use but the decisions they...