Transnational repression on Canadian campuses is an emerging threat distorting information environments and exposing NATO vulnerabilities. Using a two‑tier framework, Ji Young Kim shows how foreign coercion silences dissent and can lead institutions to reinforce false consensus.
NATO has just launched LeadInSecurity, its first Alliance-wide leadership accelerator for women in defence and security. In this article, Tessa McDermid explores how the program offers NATO an opportunity to close the sector’s gender gap and uphold its Women, Peace and Security (WPS) commitments. Since LeadInSecurity has no internal track record to draw on, she looks to comparable programs to argue that its long-term success depends on outcome tracking, integration into NATO’s existing accountability frameworks, setting numeric targets, and running as a recurring, multi-year initiative rather than a standalone initiative.
Although Canada achieved its 2% NATO target, it still struggles to turn that spending into modern, ready, and deployable military capability. With the new 5% pledge, Canada must rethink how it budgets and delivers defence investments to generate usable and efficient military power.
The 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara presented a unique opportunity to uphold the importance of NATO’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the pursuit of collective security. Growing concerns over Turkey’s domestic humanitarian record underscored a deeper importance to this conversation. Nonetheless, at a time where confrontation is often chosen over conversation, the Summit offered a reminder of the importance of the willingness to gather. Through an examination of key discussions on gender-responsive security at the Ankara Summit, this article contends that the willingness to gather must be matched by a willingness to act. The Alliance’s greatest strength lies in its continued capacity to choose diplomacy, have hard conversations, and hold one another accountable for transforming dialogue into durable action.
Canada has the institutions, the reports, and the warnings about disinformation. What it lacks is a population that feels the threat. In this article, Dominique Arseneau-Bruneau looks at how Canada’s lack of urgency affects its response to disinformation through the lens of legality, legitimacy, and speed, and what the cost of that comfort may ultimately be.
Geopolitical competition in the Arctic is intensifying due to increased access to the region driven by climate change and interest in precious oil and other resources. In response to the growing need for security and surveillance on our nation’s Northern front, Canada’s ongoing discussions with Sweden to acquire the GlobalEye platform and produce Saab aircraft will significantly enhance Canada and NATO’s ability to monitor and respond to emerging threats across the North.
Rachel Potter analyzes the Trump administration’s suspension of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, arguing that it marks a qualitative shift in U.S. alliance behaviour in which shared defence institutions are weaponized as instruments of coercion, revealing a strategic logic that goes beyond burden sharing disputes and instead reflects an effort to reshape the institutional architecture of continental defence on American terms.
Canada’s shift to the Indo-Pacific for trade, economic, and defence opportunities is a strategic pivot away from the United States to create key partnerships and establish diplomatic ties. This also highlights an avenue for Canada to reaffirm its commitment to the broader values and principles represented by the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, where the US appears to have abandoned the cause. Isabelle Zhu argues that in this new geopolitical landscape, Canada can leverage its soft power and emerge as an engaged and dependable ally from security and defence to trade and energy, but also in principles and values, which contributes positively to Canada’s normative reputation and international visibility.
Critical minerals are growing crucial to NATO’s defence-industrial capacity, but the governance of their extraction has largely omitted gender sensitive considerations. This article argues that as NATO intensifies efforts to secure defence-critical mineral supply chains, leveraging its Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda can help develop a gender-responsive governing framework. Drawing on Canada’s emerging critical minerals framework, this article discusses the legal safeguards and inclusive governance that can strengthen supply chain resilience while embedding gender considerations. This way, NATO members can enhance both strategic mineral security and its commitments to sustainable peace and security in tandem with gender equality.
As Canada accelerates its AI capabilities, data centres are emerging as important strategic assets, underpinning everything from cloud computing and public services to economic competitiveness and national security. In this article, Dorigen Gray explores how Canada’s continued reliance on foreign cloud providers creates challenges for technological sovereignty and shapes debates surrounding domestic data centre expansion. By examining how foreign actors can exploit these debates through influence operations, the article highlights why building resilient digital infrastructure will require balancing sovereignty, transparency, and public trust.