For the third time in NATO history, the NATO Association of Canada hosted an honourary event for NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024. Stoltenberg was awarded the Louis St. Laurent Award for outstanding contributions to the ideals and principles of maintaining peace and order enshrined in the Washington Treaty. Past recipients Read More…
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What Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Honourable Pierre Poilievre Can Learn From a Rightwing Libertarian’s Presidential Election Victory in Argentina
Argentina’s election last autumn saw a right-wing libertarian outsider with a unique public persona, Javier Milei, defeat the sitting center-left economy minister, Sergio Massa. Since the election’s main issues were the nation’s post-COVID economic troubles, there are many lessons that this can provide for other countries that are also coming out of the pandemic, even Read More…
Mathias Corvinus Collegium & Consulate General of Hungary Event
On June 4th, 2024, the NATO Association of Canada hosted a delegation of Hungarian students from the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), members of the Consulate General of Hungary in Toronto, and NAOC Directors at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto. Surrounded by prestigious military medals in the aptly named Medals Room of the RCMI, visitors took part in a unique Read More…
Tides of Power: China’s Potential Strategic Dominance in Shipbuilding and Its Influence on Naval Power for the U.S.
China has a significant position in global commercial shipbuilding and its control is growing, granting it a formidable strategic industrial advantage in modernizing and expanding the capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). This is important as the PLAN’s modernization, in numerical and tonnage, combined with its intention to move beyond a littoral naval Read More…
NATO Association of Canada and student organisation from Memorial University of Newfoundland officially launches the Atlantic Canada Security Policy Forum
You can listen to our recording of the event here. The NATO Association of Canada, in partnership with student organizations based in Memorial University of Newfoundland, namely the Political Science Graduate Students’ Society (MUN PSGSS), Filipino Students’ Association (MUNFILSA), Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys) – MUN Chapter, and Youth Atlantic Treaty Association – North Atlantic Treaty Read More…
Summer 2023 NATO Association of Canada-Canadian Army Journal Co-Publication Released
The NATO Association of Canada is pleased to announce the publication of its summer 2023 publication, Cutting through the Haze: Grey Zone Operations and Contemporary Threats. Produced in collaboration with the Canadian Army Journal (CAJ), the volume explores grey zone operations and other dimensions of today’s threat landscape. The grey zone, which the volume describes Read More…
The NATO Association of Canada Launches Its Summer Internship Program
The NATO Association of Canada is delighted to announce the start of its summer 2023 internship program. With the launch of the summer internship, the NATO Association of Canada welcomes ten new interns to the team: Aryan Aggarwal Danté Benjamin-Jackson Matthew D’Amico Megan Keli Meverest Lin Mark Davis Madarang Pablo Aly Sayani Riya Shah Aimee Read More…
NATO Association of Canada Intern Alyssa Nurse Wins Two Prestigious Awards
The NATO Association of Canada is delighted to celebrate the recent achievements of Alyssa Nurse, a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto and current intern at the NATO Association of Canada. In honour of combined academic, extra-curricular, and professional excellence, Alyssa received from Experiential & Work-Integrated Learning Ontario (EWO) the Co-op/WIL/EL Student of Read More…