June 22, 2020
Canada should draw key lessons from the UN defeat
Losing an election is always tough. And especially when it is the second in a row. But Canada’s loss to Ireland and Norway in this past week’s Security Council...
June 19, 2020
Ottawa’s ill-fated quest for a UN Security Council seat
Canada’s quest for a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council has ended with a thud. The Security Council sits at the centre of the global governance system...
June 19, 2020
How COVID-19 has impacted Canadian Forces missions abroad
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has been stretched by natural disaster relief efforts and is in even higher demand now with Operation Laser, the CAF response to COVID-19. The...
June 3, 2020
A post-pandemic review of security and intelligence is essential
Should Canadian intelligence agencies report on pandemics? Yes. Deploying the warning and analysis capabilities of the community should be part of a whole-of-government approach to a global health emergency....
June 3, 2020
Reassessing Canada’s refugee policy in the COVID-19 era
The decision by the Trump administration on April 22nd to effectively freeze immigration flows into the United States is the latest in a series of moves by that government...
June 1, 2020
Canada needs a new Plan A in dealing with pandemic global trade rules
For Canada, one of the disturbing realities arising from the pandemic response is the breakdown in the global, rules-based trade system when we needed it most for critical supplies...
May 25, 2020
Five post-pandemic pivots in Canadian security and intelligence
Post-COVID emergency, Canada’s security and intelligence (S&I) community will find itself protecting a country whose strategic circumstances have changed dramatically since the publication of the ground-breaking 2004 National Security...
May 22, 2020
Defence procurement won’t be so easy to cut in a time of COVID-19
A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the first signs of impact on Canada’s defence procurement plans are showing. The government has been following an ambitious multi-decade blueprint, starting...
May 21, 2020
COVID-19’s effect on work is a shift, not a major revolution
There has been much speculation that we are at the “end of the office,” to quote a Financial Times article. This has been the speculation in light of the...
May 21, 2020
Soutenir les militantes des droits de la personne durant la pandémie
L’avocate d’origine syrienne Reem Al-Ksiri vit aujourd’hui à Vienne, en Autriche. Comme des millions de ses compatriotes, elle s’est vue forcée de quitter son pays en raison de la...