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.
Carney announces pay raises for Canadian Armed Forces members
Prime Minister Mark Carney detailed $2-billion in spending for the Canadian Armed Forces, a part of the $9-billion announced in June for defence and security.
Feds need to ‘rethink’ industrial benefits policy and refocus on defence capabilities, say former senior officials: it ‘needs to evolve’
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada needs ‘to go back to basics and make sure it’s using the policy to build defence capabilities in Canada,’ says former senior public servant Clem Srour.
As world marks 80 years since atomic anniversary, Canada has room to lead
Canadian diplomacy can and has had major impact on global affairs in the past, and the country is extremely well placed to take substantive action in support of the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
Major powers resorting to war more often, and doing so without even trying to justify it under the UN Charter rules
Maybe so much time has passed that some countries have forgotten what everybody’s objective was at the end of the Second World War: to replace the rule of war with the rule of law. If so, they should all be obliged to watch Chimp Empire, to remind them where we have come from and why we need to get to a better place.
The Armed Forces’ selective accountability
Two senior officers have already been sanctioned in the early days of the Blue Hackle Mafia affair, which contrasts oddly with previous military scandals.
Sniffing out alleged terrorists in the military’s ranks
This is exactly what the hard-pressed CAF did not need at this juncture—another bad news story to throw on the pile.
