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An overhead view of a combine harvester cutting a swath through a field of brown plants, alongside a tractor towing a grain trailer.

Community food systems are critical to Canada’s national security

An animated image of a person in a laptop computer with a rope pulling a bank card from another laptop.

Build a real financial crimes force to hit terrorist financing

A close-up photo of a belt of ammunition a soldier is carrying around their neck.

Canada needs more defence autonomy in a less reliable world

Two cows photographed from below with a blue sky with puffy clouds in the background.

Food security needs to be part of Canada’s defence strategy

Canada should spotlight abducted Ukrainian children in peace talks

A half-dozen ministers and advisers stand in a line as Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a podium. He is in soft focus and in profile while the others are in focus.

Carney’s deputy minister shuffle raises national security questions

Stacked shipping containers.

How Canada can prepare for high-pressure U.S. demands on sovereignty and trade

Mark Carney in closeup with the World Economic Forum sign in the background.

Giving life to the Carney vision for Canada

How Canada could achieve digital sovereignty

How Carney can use policy to unite the country

Canada needs an enhanced strategic approach in the High North

A-frame wooden homes sit side by side on a road. They are surrounded by mature trees but the paint on each is peeling.

Effective rural policy is critical to Canada’s security, stability and sovereignty

The eight ministers are bundled up against the cold with a sign for their meeting in front of them and a bright blue sky behind them.

It’s time for Canada to have a foreign policy

Un drapeau du Canada flotte au-dessus du Parlement. Des nuages gris assombrissent le ciel.

Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future

A wide shot of Marco Rubio sitting alone at a long table. With onlookers behind him.

How Trump is reshaping global criminal justice co-operation

A mobile phone with the Facebook and X app icons.

U.S. social media platforms are a national security threat

A worker clad in a white jumpsuit and hardhat sprays their gloved hand. The burnt-out remains of several vehicles and a neighbourhood are in the background. A line of barbeque propane tanks are maked with white Xs.

The L.A. wildfires are a warning to Canada

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

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