Newest India assassination claims validate expansion of public inquiry beyond China, says Thomas Juneau
Explicitly mandating an examination of India would be another ‘poke in the eye’ to a strategically valuable trading partner, warns former national security and intelligence adviser Vincent Rigby.
National aerospace strategy needed to ‘tie it all together’ as industry rebounds from pandemic losses, say sector experts
An aerospace industry report released over the summer shows an increase in revenues and jobs, but declining spending on innovation.
Spavor’s lawsuit raises questions that should have already been examined
One would think that mere curiosity would have led journalists to delve deeper into the two Canadians who were caught up in the middle of what was dubbed ‘hostage diplomacy’ between the Canadian government and the People’s Republic of China.
Advancing Canada-Japan co-operation for a free and open Indo-Pacific
I sincerely hope that further Canadian engagement in the Indo-Pacific region and the deepening of Canada-Japan co-operation will contribute to the betterment of the region and beyond.
Defence
Overdue defence policy update must address changing international threats, inflation: defence experts
‘The longer they delay, the further we are behind,’ says NDP critic Lindsay Mathyssen of the wait for the now-overdue update to Canada’s defence policy.
Canada’s military paying the price for service
It’s not a great time to be the Canadian military. As Neil Moss reports in the latest Hill Times, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces are unable to fulfill concurrent operations obligations set out in the Liberal government’s 2017 defence policy. The 2022-23 departmental results report outlines that Canada, “based on […]
Not so far out, man: Senators urge research into psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans
A large-scale research program on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is a moral imperative to help former soldiers affected by PTSD.
Waiting for the new defence policy
So much more could have been done to provide Canadians with a clearer roadmap of defence and security issues as well as our place in the world in the time it has taken to produce the defence policy update.
The significant and existential threat to Arctic sovereignty from climate change
Strong, Secure, and Engaged had no new initiatives to increase natural disaster fighting capabilities, leaving the women and men in the Armed Forces without meaningful investments in the training and equipment required to combat this growing threat.
