Arctic deserves more than promises for improved security
While southern Canada debates the purchase of drones and submarines, the North still waits for basic investments in safety, predictability, and connectivity.
The case for making national service mandatory
If one-year military engagements were part of a mandatory youth national service program, there would be a steady flow of new recruits for the floundering CAF.
No one appears able to stop Benjamin Netanyahu from uprooting one million people from Gaza City
With both the Israeli PM and the U.S. president ignoring public opinion, it’s time for a political leader in the West to tell Benjamin Netanyahu you can’t crush the rights of a million people without serious consequences. Canada should stand up.
A defence industrial policy is a good offence
Canada could revisit its industrial policy and consider a new defence, dual-use, industrial policy. This would take advantage of the government’s already-announced commitment to ramp defence spending up to five per cent of GDP over the next decade.
‘We don’t have a choice here’: SecState for defence procurement Fuhr pledges to move ‘quicker,’ take more risks
‘We’re going to build out the Canadian defence industrial complex at a speed and magnitude we just haven’t done before,’ Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr told defence industry leaders on Aug. 8.
When will Canada embrace Indigenous-led wildfire solutions that we know work?
Indigenous Fire Guardians are year-round, community-based experts focused on land stewardship, cultural burning, fire prevention, emergency response, and post-fire recovery.
Defence spending targets are only half the challenge facing Canada
In recent years, Canada’s foreign policy has been heavy on the articulation of values, but light on the material commitments needed to advance and defend them.
Delay is not an option when it comes to foreign interference
When there is political will—from the prime minister or from the responsible minister—things gets done. The real concern here is: why is that will absent?
Feds spent at least $1.7-billion on defence contracts in the first half of 2025, about 16 per cent of which went to U.S. companies: data
U.S.-based companies received more than $68.6-million in DND contracts between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2025, which is a 24-per-cent increase over the same period the previous year.
It’s time to strike back at Trump’s tactics
Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has indeed whacked Canada with a whopping trade tariff, perhaps it’s time to make sure that economic pain is felt on both sides of the border.
