This September marks twenty years since Operation Medusa — the battle that defined Canada’s war in Afghanistan and reshaped how the country saw its military. At the centre of it was Brigadier-General David Fraser, the officer running his country’s force in Kandahar and NATO’s southern command. Most retellings stop at the victory his forces won; Read More…
What happens when a trusted source of credible evidence becomes something just about anyone can fabricate? Google’s short-lived integration of its Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology into Google Earth offered a glimpse. Dorigen Gray examines how increasingly accessible generative AI tools lower the barriers to manipulating trusted sources of evidence, and what this means for verification, disinformation, public trust and national security.
Rachel Potter examines Canada’s accelerating defence integration with the European Union, arguing that the durability of instruments like SAFE and Canada’s bilateral agreements with countries like Poland and Sweden reveal a structural recalibration rather than opportunistic hedging, one that positions Europe as a genuine alternative to Canada’s reliance on Washington and raises deeper questions about whether NATO’s traditional U.S.-anchored architecture can remain.
Twenty years ago, the Canadian Armed Forces alongside NATO and Afghan allies, conducted Operation Medusa, the largest Canadian operation since the Second World War. Carried out in September of 2006, Op Medusa saw Canadian-led NATO forces successfully destroy a Taliban stronghold in the Panjwayi district. While the operation was Canadian-led, it represented the combined strength Read More…
Recently, the use of artificial intelligence has increased exponentially. It has enmeshed itself in countless ways across our everyday lives. ChatGPT alone is estimated to process around 2.5 billion prompts per day. It is easy to think of AI as purely virtual, existing on the cloud, the internet, and the digital devices of its users. Read More…
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.
Twenty years after Operation Medusa, Afghanistan remains a significant part of the Canadian Armed Forces’ institutional memory. The 2006 battle, Canada’s largest combat operation since the Korean War, killed twelve Canadian soldiers. It was one episode in a broader mission in which more than 40,000 CAF members deployed, including officers who hold the CAF’s most Read More…
The Arctic has become a key fixture of transatlantic security and Canada has taken significant steps to expand the securitization of the region. In his latest piece, Jonah Moffatt argues that security extends beyond deterrence in already vulnerable Northern communities, underscoring the necessity of investment with dual military and civilian outcomes. In doing so, Canada can lead NATO’s polar pivot by ensuring the homeland behind the flank benefits from the region’s growing strategic importance.
In early 2026, researchers from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network noticed something odd. They discovered a network of at least twenty YouTube channels all promoting Alberta separatism and U.S. annexation in an eerily similar fashion. These channels all used the same template: thumbnails with fake pictures of Mark Carney and Danielle Smith, AI voiceovers, Read More…
Chaque année, depuis 2007, le Canada organise une vaste opération militaire, NANOOK, avec ses forces armées. En renforçant les partenariats nationaux et internationaux dans l’Arctique afin de répondre aux défis de sécurité dans le Nord, l’opération a démontré la capacité de la Marine royale canadienne à assurer une défense et une surveillance concertées. Alors que Read More…