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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

A red and white fighter jet takes off with two passengers aboard.

Before Canada spends billions more on defence, let’s control the killer robots

A two-engine jet aircraft in production.

Lessons from the American 1950s defence boom for Canada’s prosperity today

Mark Carney walking beneauth the barrel of a launch tube with soldiers in the background.

The secret to a successful defence industrial strategy is procurement reform

Carney stands at a podium on the tarmac. Behind him is several hundred soldiers in olive-green uniforms, and behind them are two white jets. A row of media and cameras on tripods is facing Carney.

Greening the military: Why defence spending must align with climate action

A series of computers are lined up in command-centre style with a map of the world in front of the room. The image is partially obscured by a screen, providing an element of intrigue.

Canadian businesses need a new government approach to cybercrime

Three men in a small boat with the houses of a modern subdivision in the background. The water is about halfway up a stop sign and the garage doors.

Drowning in risk, Ottawa must fund a national flood insurance program

Mark Carney in the distance speaking to a crowd of people in a room decorated with Indigenous symbols such as paintings and totem poles.

Carney’s “nation-building” is nothing but a blast from the past

Was the public inquiry into foreign interference worth the trouble?

Classifying risk to prepare for disruptive threats

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

Ukrainian and Canadian flags are in the foreground as the ministers walk in line chatting.

Montreal summit a positive step on road to peace in Ukraine

Canada’s battlegroup in Latvia is too vulnerable to deter a Russian invasion

A badly burned moped.

Device attacks in Lebanon could be harbinger of new era of Trojan horse threats

Un navire-citerne rouge passe à côté du pont partiellement construit.

There is no easy path ahead for U.S. trading partners

Chong stands at a podium in front of a nearly a dozen reporters. On the walls are large framed portraits of men. The walls are panelled in wood, the windows are tall and arched at the top.

Bill C-70 could further erode minority rights

Sheinbaum is walking next to a black car and is surrounded by men and women. She is smiling. A man next to her is in a T-shirt that says “United we stand.” Some people are taking pictures with their phones, holding them up.

We need to deepen our relationship with Mexico

Two rows of flags fly in front of a glass-walled building that is curved. The flags are colourful, representing all the member countries of the EU.

Prepare for an EU that’s less open to trade

Seen from the side of a length of rail line, the locomotive is yellow with an illustration of a waving American flag painted on its side.

A new trade policy for the “geopolitical turn”

Dark mist swirls on a white sky, with dark mountains all around. Dark lichen-covered boulders sit amid golden tall grass in the foreground.

Looking North: Pension funds are key to developing Canada’s critical minerals

A person in a uniform standing in front of their booth speaks to a driver in a silver Toyota SUV. Several vehicles are lined up behind them.

Border guards try to set a new frontier in labour dispute

The five political and military leaders walk on the CFB Trenton Tarmac with a yellow-and-red search and rescue helicopter and a grey military transport jet in the background.

Our North, Strong and Free: Odd innovations in Canadian defence policy

Social media researchers are under attack. The online harms bill can help them fight back

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