What happens if Canada’s new submarines arrive late? In this article, Pavit Sidhu examines the risks of a submarine capability gap and argues that Canada should put lower-cost stopgap measures in place while it waits for the new fleet.
NATO’s relationship with its Indo-Pacific Four (IP4) partners, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, now runs mainly through working-level defence industrial cooperation rather than summit diplomacy. This shift began under the joint framework agreed at the 2025 Hague Summit, but it operates as four separate bilateral tracks with no common defence industrial venue. The Read More…
For most Canadians, passenger rail is not a topic of great everyday importance. Canadians made only 4.4 million journeys with Via Rail (the country’s national rail operator) in 2025, compared to almost 160 million passengers passing through Canadian airports in the same year. Canada’s passenger rail network is underdeveloped and unreliable. Canada is the only Read More…
This article written by Hala Gharaibeh examines how the breakdown of civilian protection in Sudan has increased women’s vulnerability to conflict-related sexual violence, and why addressing CRSV is essential to conflict prevention, civilian protection, and human security.
Canada has spent considerable time defining what it wants from the Indo-Pacific. The next challenge is demonstrating what it can accomplish there. Mongolia offers an opportunity to do precisely that. Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued that, in an era of great-power rivalry, middle powers need stronger networks among themselves. Canada cannot exercise influence in Read More…
This article will examine how Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, is responding to the surge in spoofed and scam phone calls that disproportionately target older Canadians, eroding trust in basic communications systems.
Canada’s housing crisis has made the public more susceptible to scapegoating and disinformation. Ji Young Kim examines how Russia’s Tenet Media operation exploited domestic culture wars, weakening societal resilience and undermining Canada’s reliability within NATO.
While climate change is undoubtedly an urgent security challenge for NATO, its risks extend beyond physical and environmental consequences. This article examines climate disinformation as a hybrid threat that exploits uncertainty to delay climate action, divide allies, and undermine trust. Rather than attempting to convince populations to reject climate change entirely, climate disinformation can create enough doubt and disagreement to weaken collective action.
