The world at present is situated before an interchange between growing geopolitical tensions and surging national defence budgets. Albeit, the cycle is complicated by the current Climate Crisis. It is no longer weapons or foes in which the battlefield is defined, but the environment itself. Modern armed forces, including Canada’s, must therefore confront threats emerging Read More…
Climate change is increasingly shaping the security environment across the North Atlantic. Extreme weather events, including flooding, wildfires, heatwaves, and coastal storms, are placing growing pressure on infrastructure, emergency response systems, and economic activity. Recognising these dynamics, NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept acknowledges that climate impacts affect military operations, degrade critical infrastructure and shape geopolitical competition. Read More…
*This is the final instalment of a six-part series. For the final instalment of the “Power Play in the Arctic” series, Marcus Wong (MW) sat down with Dr. George Soroka (GS) of Harvard University’s Department of Government, who also serves as Executive Officer of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at the Weatherhead Read More…
Extreme weather is no longer a distant concern for defence planners. Across the Euro-Atlantic region, flooding has damaged military infrastructure, rising temperatures have affected personnel and equipment, and the accelerating loss of Arctic ice has begun to reshape strategic geography. As climate impacts intensify, they increasingly intersect with NATO’s core security priorities. Rather than constituting Read More…
In an era of intensifying great-power competition and accelerating climate change, the Arctic has emerged as a central arena where environmental transformation and geopolitical rivalry increasingly intersect. Washington’s threats to seize Greenland have undermined NATO unity. Potential threats have generated geopolitical instability that poses security and environmental risk to Canada’s Arctic sovereignty. This article aims Read More…
In October 2025, Bill Gates released a memo titled, “Three Tough Truths About Climate” with a sharply different tone. Gates, long a champion of climate action, now argued that climate change, while serious, “will not lead to humanity’s demise”. He urged world leaders to focus on human welfare, resilience and development instead of rigid temperature Read More…
On November 4, 2025, Canadians witnessed a redirection in federal policy efforts with the release of Budget 2025: Canada Strong, signaling a shift toward economic growth, national resilience, and long-term global stability. While the budget aims to strengthen economic sovereignty, the subject of climate change and the health of the environment must be considered, since Read More…
In the northern regions of Canada, climate change is not a distant threat. It is disconnecting the roads that Canadians depend on to survive. Ice crossings that once carried trucks providing goods to these remote communities are now thinning or failing to freeze at all. For many northern and Indigenous areas, the loss of these Read More…
When someone calls 911, every second matters. But, behind each emergency response lies an unseen network of decisions, standards and coordination that determines whether help arrives quickly. Nova Scotia’s fire service is now facing a crisis that shows us what happens when that network becomes too fragmented to function. The breaking point came when a Read More…
As the Arctic transforms from a frozen frontier into a contested geopolitical arena, questions of sovereignty, environmental responsibility, and security have converged into one of the most pressing challenges in the 21st century. Once referred to as a remote, ice-covered expanse, the region is now a stage where the impacts of climate change intersect with Read More…