International assistance has suddenly become a hot election topic with the announcement that the Conservative party would cut Canada’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) if elected. Other parties have expressed...
Domestic issues are undoubtedly critical to voters in this election because they affect Canadians directly and in the short term. Foreign affairs rarely engage voters or affect choices at...
The global security environment is in a dynamic state. Renewed competition between great powers threatens stability. Brinksmanship between US President Donald Trump and Iran’s leadership could trigger war in...
With Canada gearing up for the federal election this fall, the usual subjects — the environment, the economy and immigration — are likely to dominate pre-election debate. But in an...
Jack Letts, known as “Jihadi Jack,” is alleged to have supported the Islamic State in Syria and currently sits in a Kurdish jail in northern Syria. The United Kingdom...
The legendary ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu wrote in Art of War that “if one knows the enemy and knows oneself, one needs not fear the result of...
The SNC-Lavalin affair is about many things. It’s about conflict of interest, pressure from the prime minister and whether to split the roles of the attorney general and the...
Cold War II has begun, and Iran and Canada are early battlegrounds, albeit of very different orders of magnitude. As the last Cold War showed, nuclear-armed superpowers will do...
Canadian businesses of all sizes feel the impacts of global standards, directly or indirectly. These standards affect Canadian companies because they either form the basis for our domestic laws...
In the same decade that saw the most dramatic global decline in democratic values since the Second World War, Canada all but abandoned aid for international democracy support. So...
