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Against a black sky, the white rocket sends blindingly white exhaust gases to the ground as it lifts off.

Leveraging Canada’s Arctic experience to shape space-mining norms

Two men wave a huge Iranian flag in a paved area in front of the building.

Diplomacy without pressure won’t end Iran’s nuclear program

Three Danish ships sailing in formation.

Why Canada needs Arctic threat modelling now

A crew of a half dozen people dressed in red winter gear use a small portable tripod winch system. A red ship is parked in the ice behind them. The sky and surface are a monochromatic white-grey colour where the horizon is barely visible.

Canada’s next Arctic move: Look west

The silhouette of the refinery at sunset with a small boat crossing the orange-glowing waters of the inlet in the background.

Build, baby, build. Or sell, baby, sell? Canada should reject Sunoco’s takeover of Parkland

Vue panoramique d’un lac pollué par des déchets

From conflict to co-operation: Using mediation to fight the climate crisis 

It’s time Canadian universities ventured abroad – to save themselves

In bright turquoise, red-orange, yellow and green, an illustration that is a jumble of faceless people, robots, mechanical arms, a pencil, a pointing finger and a hand on a laptop.

Only targeted industrial policy will fulfil Canada’s value-adding potential 

A multi-lane railroad cuts through a flat, barren and snowy landscape. About 10 tracks side by side are filled with black shipping containers filled with mounds of coal. On one side is a yard with stacked empty containers. On the other are clusters of low-rise buildings , with an empty two-lane highway running parallel.

Canada must defend Uyghur rights with strong action

How to create a health-care superpower

Trump is sitting at a wood desk, leaning forward as he uses a large black marker to make his signature on a two-page document in a black folder. Several people stand behind the desk. He is in a blue suit and tie with a white shirt.

Pandemic-era lessons for the coming Trump tariff crisis

Justin Trudeau sits at the head of a boardroom talking to men and women in business attire. He has four Canadian flags behind him.

Lack of federal leadership hurts Canada’s response to Trump tariff threat

Farmers with brown sacks of grain draped over their shoulders walk among dried rice fields.

Equitable governance of agri-food data is imperative for global food security

A Sunstar and the thinner brittle stars sit on a carpet of green vegetation on the ocean floor.

Protecting the ocean floor could help mitigate climate change

Donald Trump speaks in front of a “Trump-Vance” podium with the dark, garish neogothic décor of Mar-a-Lago behind him.

Trump’s tariff threats add to woes facing Canadian infrastructure projects

The ‘Team Canada’ approach to Trump’s tariffs sounds good but exposes weakness

Donald Trump speaking in front of an American flag.

Canada’s response to Trump tariff threats risks unintended consequences

A line graph showing 54 per cent of young people think they are worse off than their parents at the same age versus 25 per cent who think they are better off.

Five public-opinion trends to watch in 2025

Gould passes a thick stack of papers to a white man with dark hair and a beard dressed in a black suit. Gould is standing in the first row of desks, where several other people are sitting. She is white with glasses and long light-brown hair pulled back in an elastic. Her turtleneck is white with sleeves that reach her elbows. Her pants are black. The room has olive-green carpet, wood panelling and soft lighting.

A surgical way to salvage the fall economic statement

Two men in white medical coats, shirts and pants pass something not seen between them as they stand in a park next to the hospital, a two-storey building whose windows have been blown out. One man has blood spatters on his coat; the other has a large blood stain that takes up most of the back of his shirt. All around them, a crowd of people are in motion, lifting, passing, looking down. Debris covered most of the ground. Several tall trees are missing most of their trunks and branches.

The dangerous rise of “might makes right”

The billboard sits on a post on a sidewalk of a street with tall buildings on one side, lower buildings on the other, with leafless-trees lining both sides. It’s evening, with one person on the sidewalk. The billboard pictures a young man in a dark blue military uniform with gold epaulets and about nine medals pinned to his chest.

Russia’s propaganda machine is running roughshod in Canada

About 10 young men and boys sit at tables of sewing machines, feeding fabric into them. Piles of fabric are heaped on the floor. The walls are pink, and a dirty tarp is pinned up in an opening in the wall.

Canada is implementing a forced-labour import ban. Will it help exploited workers?

Trump vs. democracy itself

A map of Alaska and northern Canada showing the Beaufort Sea at the boundary between them.

Negotiating the Beaufort boundary with the U.S. can serve as an example to the world

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