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The 2025 Science and Technology Organization (STO) Highlights Report is a stark reminder that in an environment characterized by compressed decision cycles and rapid response requirements, technological military advantage depends less on possessing advanced systems than on how seamlessly they operate across domains, nations, and architectures. Progress in integrated platforms and autonomous sensing and countermeasure Read More…
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy marks one of Ottawa’s most ambitious efforts in decades to rebuild military readiness and strengthen the industrial base behind the Canadian Armed Forces. However, renewed U.S. tariff pressure raises a harder question about whether Canada can turn defence investment into real capability while its production systems remain tied to American-linked supply chains. This article argues that tariffs are not simply an economic dispute, but a defence readiness issue that reveals the limits of Canada’s long-standing dependence on the United States.
What should count as defence investment in an era of climate-driven insecurity? In this article, Olly Griesbach argues that NATO’s new and largely undefined 1.5% resilience spending category offers a crucial policy opening to formally recognize climate adaptation, and that Canada is uniquely positioned to lead that push.
A tariff regime isn’t an act of war, and a supply-chain cut-off isn’t an invasion — even if they are coercive. In this article, Tyler Stevenson examines how Canada is responding to these threats through a new wave of comprehensive partnerships that treat trade as an extension of defence policy.
In the early morning hours of July 8th, 2025, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested four men in Quebec. The men in question had been building up a stockpile of weapons. Over 11,000 rounds of ammunition, 83 firearms, and over a dozen explosives were found. They had, for years, been engaged in military-style training Read More…
For millions of people, displacement poses a threat not due to war or persecution, but because the land beneath their feet is disappearing, crops can no longer grow, or floods return year after year. A 2020 report by ActionAid and Climate Action Network South Asia estimates that climate-related disasters could displace nearly 63 million people Read More…
Canada’s threat environment has already made clear that cyber risks demand serious attention; the real question is what the country chooses to defend. The CRA incidents and NATO’s resilience agenda show that protecting Canada today means treating core digital systems as strategic assets essential to public trust, fiscal stability, and national security
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada has achieved NATO’s 2% defence expenditure target under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney. While the increase in spending does strengthen Canada’s credibility within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and supports domestic defence-related industries and employment, the 2% target does not measure actual military effectiveness. Can Canada convert higher defence expenditures into deployable capabilities, procurement reform, personnel increases, and reduced dependence on the United States?
Canada’s Climate Vulnerability Canada’s climate is warming at twice the global average rate, and Arctic regions are at nearly four times the global average rate. As snow and sea ice melt, reduced surface reflectivity exposes darker land and water that absorb more solar radiation, further accelerating warming. The consequences are already visible in the frequency Read More…
In this article, Zev Wood examines the NATO and Canadian-level implications of NATO’s decision to replace its aging Boeing E-3 Sentry surveillance fleet with the GlobalEye. He argues that the deal, while reflecting NATO’s desire to improve its military capacity, points to a broader realignment away from the United States. He underscores that this moment provides Canada with a strategic window to entrench itself as a reliable alternative to the United States and a burgeoning defence manufacturing nation.