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Canada Can Become Critical to the World If We Make the Right Bets on AI and Emerging Technologies

Canada cannot build every layer of the AI stack. But it can, over time, become an essential supplier for the world.

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Jaxson Khan

What Canadian Businesses Must Embrace to Compete in a Volatile Global Economy

Tariffs and global shocks have raised the cost of standing still. Resilience now means scale, technology and diversification.

05.10.2026 0

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Tu Nguyen

Canada Wants Sovereign AI. But Sovereign for Whom?

Ottawa’s new AI strategy treats sovereignty as a question of compute, cloud and control. First Nations have been asking who holds authority over...

30.09.2026 5

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Cassandra Hill

Turning Hate into Empathy

How the Israeli Palestinian conflict has impacted the Canadian Jewish and Muslim communities.

29.09.2026 1

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Jon Allen

Street Protests Alone Cannot Overthrow Iran’s Regime

Iran’s January uprising demonstrated extraordinary courage. It also exposed the difference between mass protest and a national movement capable of...

24.09.2026 10

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Jeffrey Steiner

Canada Needs a New Generation of Americanists for the United States That Exists, Not the One It Remembers

Waiting out Trump assumes the old America returns after 2028. Canada should invest in people who understand why it won’t.

22.09.2026 10

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Andrew Erskine

Canada Attracts the Talent. But Is Its Economy Creating the Jobs?

Canada has built one of the world’s most sophisticated systems for attracting highly educated immigrants. But attracting human capital is not the...

21.09.2026 9

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Rupa Banerjee

Museum Diplomacy in the Age of Rupture

As the rules-based order breaks down, business as usual is no longer an option.

21.09.2026 40

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Sascha Priewe

Canada’s European Pivot: Now What? with Sir Graham Watson

Canada and Europe have been growing closer for years but […]

19.09.2026 20

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Cic Staff

The Canadian Diplomat Who Tried to Stop the Partition of Palestine, and the One Who Pushed It Through

Elizabeth MacCallum, the Middle East specialist sidelined inside External Affairs, argued against partition. Lester Pearson, aligned with US strategy,...

18.09.2026 10

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John Price

Canada and India Are Deepening Ties amid Global Geopolitical Frictions: Common Concerns and Possible Opportunities

A major shift towards more resilient, durable relationship than ever in their over 80 years of diplomatic ties.

17.09.2026 40

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Madhuparna Gupta

Balancing on the Edge of a Volcano: What World War II China and America Can Teach Us about Today

Sino-American relations in the 1940s look little like the 2020s on the surface, yet the underlying dynamics of countervailing forces are remarkably...

16.09.2026 10

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Boyuan Dai

What Chinese Scholars Actually Say about NATO

A bibliometric analysis of 1,663 Chinese IR articles finds that scholarship frames NATO through great-power competition and largely reinforces...

12.09.2026 10

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Weiqing Song

From Allies to Adversaries 25 Years After 9/11

Twenty-five years after Canada stood with the United States following […]

12.09.2026 30

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Cic Staff

The New Normal In International Trade Law

With CUSMA weakened and the WTO in decline, regional agreements offer Canada a path through a trading order increasingly shaped by tariffs, sanctions...

10.09.2026 10

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Lawrence L. Herman

Renegade Politics: Advocating for Youth Political Engagement

Be brave enough to evolve Canada’s democracy by authentically enfranchising youth.

09.09.2026 10

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Wraychel Gilmore

What Happens to Democratic Decision-Making in a Fragmented Information Environment?

Alberta’s October Referendum Shows Why Countering Foreign Interference Is Only Part of Rebuilding Democratic Trust.

04.09.2026 20

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Madeleine Case

Dimming the Torch — Canada’s New Asylum Problem

Canada’s long-standing commitments to global human rights seem to be dwindling under new asylum and security legislation.

01.09.2026 10

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Alexandra Li

Indigenous Reconciliation is an Asset for Canada’s Economic Security

Canada’s success in Asia already leverages Indigenous partnership, time to think bigger.

31.08.2026 10

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Xian Kostyrko

Canada’s Trade War, A New Trade World? with Lawrence Herman

Nearly four decades after Canada tied its economic future to […]

29.08.2026 30

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Cic Staff

Democracy in Uniform — Canada’s Defence Shift and the Debate Over Militarization

At the 2026 Victoria Forum, CIC Victoria President Chris Kilford argues that Canada’s defence shift is not a turn toward militarization.

27.08.2026 10

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Chris Kilford

Canada’s Gordie Howe Hat Trick

Canada says enough. No more bad deals, no more waiting on a partner that can’t be trusted.

26.08.2026 10

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Bessma Momani

War, Diplomacy and Repression: The Three-Pronged Strategy of Iran’s Islamic Republic

The U.S.-Israeli Wars on Iran Achieved the Opposite of Their Intended Goal.

25.08.2026 10

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Saeed Rahnema

Canada’s Opportunity to Remake Its Economy through Critical Strategic Minerals

Energy crisis as an opportunity, but not the one Canada thinks.

24.08.2026 20

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Andy Hira

Two Solutions for the Strait of Hormuz Straitjacket

Existing pipelines can blunt Iran’s leverage today, but renewables are the only way to end it.

24.08.2026 20

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Andy Hira

From Partner to Threat: How Canada’s Arctic Narrative on Russia Changed After Ukraine

Canada’s four most recent federal Arctic strategies reveal how Ottawa reconstituted Russia from a pragmatic partner in Arctic cooperation into a...

20.08.2026 20

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Nathan Feltmate

Is There a Deal, and How Will It Be Sold?

With a tariff deadline looming, Canada and the United States […]

15.08.2026 40

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Cic Staff

What Canada’s shipbuilding strategy is getting right, and where it is still failing

The most capable warship in the world means nothing if Canada waits a generation to receive it.

14.08.2026 30

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Elinor Sloan

Canada Is Not Hedging on China; It Is Bandwagoning with Washington

Sixteen years of parliamentary statements, defence documents, military procurement, and joint exercises tell a consistent story: alignment with the US...

12.08.2026 20

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Nicolas-François Perron

War Without an Exit: Washington’s Trial-and-Error Strategy in the War on Iran

After five months of escalation, Washington is still searching for an exit from a war whose aims were never clearly defined.

07.08.2026 30

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Mohammad Yaghi

Canada Needs a Strategy for the AI Deployment Phase

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...

06.08.2026 30

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Fouâd Oveisy

Bill C-70 Is Not Enough: Canada Needs Media Literacy in Schools and Real Rules for Platforms

The Foreign Interference Commission identified disinformation as the single greatest threat to Canadian democracy, yet Ottawa’s signature...

04.08.2026 20

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Simon Hogue

The Year of Living Dangerously

Canada may have to pay a steep price whether it […]

01.08.2026 50

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Cic Staff

What Will Success Look Like in the Canada–Philippines Strategic Partnership?

A new Strategic Partnership will be judged by whether it delivers shared economic opportunity, democratic accountability, and meaningful inclusion for...

30.07.2026 30

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Marko de Guzman

The Climate Risk in Canada’s Rush to Build AI

Ottawa is investing billions to expand domestic AI capacity and reduce reliance on foreign infrastructure. But as extreme weather risks grow, the...

30.07.2026 40

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Josh Grignon

Space Security: A Three-Body Problem with Global Impact

As US, Russian and Chinese rivalry intensifies, the UN faces a narrowing window to keep outer space secure for all.

29.07.2026 30

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Paul Meyer

Fish Are Dying. Canada Can Help Stop It.

Governments are spending billions in taxpayer money to subsidize the depletion of the world’s fish.

23.07.2026 40

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Hugh Lee

Quantum Sensors Are Conflict Prevention. Canada’s Defence Policy Should Say So.

Two siloed DND strategies, one on Women, Peace and Security and the other on quantum science and technology, share more ground than either document...

23.07.2026 30

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Joanne Archibald

The Missing Half of Canada’s AI Strategy

Better models and Canadian data centres will not fix public-service AI if governments cannot agree on which data to trust.

21.07.2026 40

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Patrick Spencer

When the Algorithm Decides: Online Influence and Canada’s Democratic Resilience

Why young Canadians are quietly opting out, and what it means for the rest of us.

16.07.2026 30

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Ash Montgomery

A Defining Week for Canadian Security: One Decision Still to Make

Ottawa is about to choose a headquarters for a new defence bank. The decision will say as much about Canada as the institution itself.

16.07.2026 40

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Kyle Matthews

Canada Doesn’t Have an Innovation Problem. It Has a Scale Problem.

Why Canada’s productivity crisis is rooted in its inability to build the industrial clusters that keep talent, capital and frontier industries at...

13.07.2026 30

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Gabrielle Sorensen

When America Tried to Win Canada

The failure of American colonists to win Canadian hearts and minds 250 years ago offers lessons for responding to current meddling in the Alberta...

10.07.2026 40

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Madelaine Drohan

More Than Eurovision: Why Canada’s EBU Membership Matters

Where global platforms optimize for engagement, the EBU is built around trust, public service and shared standards. That distinction matters for...

08.07.2026 40

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Stefan Venceljovski

Trade, Power, and Pragmatism

Connecting Canada’s foreign policy to our economic aspirations.

06.07.2026 50

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Jason Macdonald

A Two-Tier NATO Is Emerging on Climate: Almost No One Is Talking About It

NATO’s 2021 climate commitments are widening the gap between members. The operational consequences are being ignored.

03.07.2026 40

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Gry Thomasen

Canada’s World Cup Will Be Judged Beyond the Pitch

Hosting the World Cup is not simply about welcoming the world. It is about governing who gets to enter it.

30.06.2026 40

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Roya Aboosaidi

The Garbage-In, Garbage-Out Problem in Fighting Dirty Money

Canada’s financial intelligence system is moving toward AI, but the technology only works as well as the data, the oversight, and the governance...

29.06.2026 40

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Alex Wilner

The Long Game with John Manley

The rules of the game with Canada’s most important partner […]

27.06.2026 60

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Cic Staff

Trust Is Not a Strategy: Why Canada Must Govern AI Decisions, Not Just Data

As Canada seeks to accelerate AI adoption, building public trust will require governing not only the data AI systems use but the decisions they...

25.06.2026 40

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Dilara Baysal