Creating a sustainable workforce for Canada’s aeronautics sector
Education that bridges academic disciplines will play a critical role in shaping the leaders of tomorrow.
Growth in aerospace requires tackling the big issues
Is Canada well poised to address emerging challenges like environmental sustainability, international competitors, and worker shortages?
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.
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.
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.
Saving the Canadian Armed Forces: a missed opportunity
The government has had many years to restructure the CAF, but instead, on the domestic level, we are currently left with an underfunded, ill-equipped, and demoralized military.
NATO’s new strategy and the Canadian defence industry
The least Canada could do to contribute to collective security is step up in a meaningful way and help NATO meet its industrial production goals.
So much to do and so little time for Canada to up its defence game
Chronic underfunding of defence, diplomacy, and development have left us on the geopolitical margins, unable to bring influence to bear when needed.
