Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’: should Canada become a junior partner?
The Golden Dome could cost more than the entire current U.S defence budget, for a system that will remain unproven.
The Canadian government is hallucinating over its AI strategy
Canada has a bad record of listening to the public’s views on past AI regulation and should keep that in mind with the AI task force’s work.
Why we still don’t have a National Lung Health Strategy
Canada needs a strategy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma with integrated surveillance systems, improved access to care, and targeted programs to reduce hospitalizations.
‘Period of fluidity’: feds signal procurement transition as Defence Investment Agency ramps up
At least 50 procurement specialists from PSPC are moving over to the new Defence Investment Agency, according to Siobhan Harty, PSPC senior associate deputy minister of defence and marine procurement.
Defence
Budget cuts in defence: an opportunity to align needs and outputs?
The concern around cuts revolves around resources, but we tend to underappreciate the cultural and structural impacts.
Opening the pathway for greater Indigenous inclusion in the Armed Forces
The CAF must position itself as an employer of choice for Indigenous Peoples by improving cultural safety, and supporting long-term career development and leadership.
We better start thinking of a UN-centred global peace system
What’s missing is a coherent plan to develop a unity of purpose and effort, and a sequence of viable policy options to deliver on it.
Canadian defence: between promises and reality
National security is not measured in GDP percentages, but rather in the real capacity to protect our democracy and territory.
Arctic security cannot exist without Inuit sovereignty
The government must stop creating barriers for Inuit and northerners to be active in our communities.
