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The truck is black with big wheels.

“Buy Canadian” won’t fix defence procurement until Ottawa defines “Canadian”

Cyber and crypto security shield on futuristic screen technology background.

Canada should keep its data out of U.S. hands

Carney stands smiling, hands in suit-pants pockets, in the cavernous space of a military transport aircraft. Around him are several men in khaki and camouflage uniforms.

Buy Canadian won’t cost us much. That’s the problem

Solomon is leaving a group of men in suits as he points at the camera.

Canada’s sovereignty needs more than guns and steel

An ice-packed inlet with snow-covered mountains in the background.

Northern cable security is becoming a test of Canada’s Arctic readiness

A data centre with rows of servers and floating figures representing digital data streams.

Canada needs to develop its own AI computing power

A closeup of a weathered grey tail of a CF-18 Hornet, with the dark grey Canadian flag stamped on it.

Canada needs a real debate on its defence buildup

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

Students walk on the University of Manitoba campus in winter in front of a four-storey limestone clad building.

Post-secondary institutions have no choice but to rely on China for funds

Kovrig and his wife both have one arm raised as they acknowledge their arrival, standing with his sister in front of a black SUV on the tarmac where the jet carrying him to Canada arrived. All three are wearing masks.

Kovrig, Spavor and Canada’s tragic record of not protecting Canadians abroad

Colourful, elegant spires of the Kremlin surrounded by snow covered ground, cloudy sky and trees.

Did a Russian spy operate out of two of Canada’s universities?

A sleek modern building with dark brown brick in the foreground and glass in the background viewed from across a small pond.

Don’t give more powers to CSE until it submits to effective review

A handful of people in winter jackets and snow pants walk among a dozen parked tractors. Canadian flags are attached to several of the vehicles, and one flag is carried by one person.

Canada’s national security institutions have fallen woefully behind

Chrystia Freeland, wearing a white blouse, gestures with both hands while speaking in front of cage lockers containing white hardhats and orange coveralls. She has notes written in blue ink on her left hand.

Two new global security doctrines in Canada and the U.S.

Wrestling the long arm of authoritarianism

Sanctions against Russia can be a dangerously inflexible instrument

What are Canada’s options in Ukraine?

Bridging the national security trust gap with racialized people

Several people carrying Canadian flags during a protest.

The Emergencies Act under scrutiny

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, in front of the flags of NATO countries.

Is Canada abandoning collective security in favour of a new isolationism?

How Canada can help Ukraine by leading on the world stage

A defence budget increase will need a policy rethink

The clock is ticking on the Emergencies Act

Let’s stop pretending Canada isn’t at war in Ukraine

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