Military

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

Mark Carney is wearing a blue traditional Inuit pullover called the atigi while speaking to soldiers wearing their green uniforms.

Five big moves Mark Carney must make to secure Canada’s place in the world

A bomb pointing downward with the yellow and black nuclear symbol.

Bombs away: A Canadian nuclear weapons program to deter Trump is not feasible

Canada needs an enhanced strategic approach in the High North

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”

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

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

A colourful long wall is made up of many black-framed squares showing images of people and things.

The missing voices at AI conferences

Canada needs to stop doing more of the same in Haiti

Dozens of containers are stacked on top of each other. The stacks are six high and probably higher. Most containers are rusty-red in colour, and others are white, green, yellow, green, dark blue and grey.

Canada needs an integrated economic-security strategy

Two light-grey ships are tied up alongside a dock, each festooned with colourful nautical flags strewn from their bows to the top of their bridges. In front of them, a dais has been set up to face the crowd, which consists of four rows of seated navy personnel, all dressed in black uniforms with their flat-topped, white hats.

Tin pot navy 2.0

Sanctions against Russia can be a dangerously inflexible instrument

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

Re-imagining Canadian defence and security

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