Canada’s housing crisis has made the public more susceptible to scapegoating and disinformation. Ji Young Kim examines how Russia’s Tenet Media operation exploited domestic culture wars, weakening societal resilience and undermining Canada’s reliability within NATO.
The Arctic has become a key fixture of transatlantic security and Canada has taken significant steps to expand the securitization of the region. In his latest piece, Jonah Moffatt argues that security extends beyond deterrence in already vulnerable Northern communities, underscoring the necessity of investment with dual military and civilian outcomes. In doing so, Canada can lead NATO’s polar pivot by ensuring the homeland behind the flank benefits from the region’s growing strategic importance.
While climate change is undoubtedly an urgent security challenge for NATO, its risks extend beyond physical and environmental consequences. This article examines climate disinformation as a hybrid threat that exploits uncertainty to delay climate action, divide allies, and undermine trust. Rather than attempting to convince populations to reject climate change entirely, climate disinformation can create enough doubt and disagreement to weaken collective action.
Ontario’s 2026 wildfire season is officially the worst on record, with over 7,250 square kilometers burned, and First Nations communities evacuating with little provincial support as emergency resources become increasingly strained. Prime Minister Carney has described it as one of the most intense wildfire seasons in Canadian history. The severity is no anomaly: Canada’s wildfires Read More…
Rachel Potter analyzes Kevin Hamilton’s appointment to NATO, arguing that it reflects Canada’s expanding institutional influence within the alliance while highlighting the growing strategic importance of the Caucasus and Central Asia as NATO deepens its engagement amid rising geopolitical instability.
In this special report, Dorigen Gray examines how online incel communities function as self-reinforcing disinformation ecosystems that cultivate radicalization and legitimize violence. Drawing on an interview with extremism researcher Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam and an analysis of three Canadian cases of incel-motivated violence, she argues that the incel movement should be understood not simply as an online subculture, but as an evolving extremist ecosystem with implications for democratic resilience and national security. The report highlights the importance of addressing both the individual vulnerabilities that contribute to radicalization and the broader online environments that sustain it.
In 2023, more than 2,100 Canadian Armed Forces members were deployed across six provinces and territories for more than four months to assist Canada’s worst wildlife season in 30 years. Canada has increasingly integrated climate change into its defence strategy, recognizing it as a threat multiplier affecting military readiness, infrastructure resilience, Arctic security, and operational Read More…
In just over a year as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has drawn stark comparisons to his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Canada has since committed to bolstering hard military power and trade diversification in response to a complex geostrategic environment, a stark departure from the values-based and progressive policy that was a hallmark of the Trudeau era. In this article, Isabelle Zhu argues that despite the explicit differences across Trudeau’s approach and the current government’s on foreign policy, there is actually substantial continuity as it pertains to Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Under Carney, Canada can continue to pursue its defence and security objectives through investments in WPS principles.
This article will examine how Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, is responding to the surge in spoofed and scam phone calls that disproportionately target older Canadians, eroding trust in basic communications systems.
As NATO races to integrate commercial satellites into its collective defence architecture, can Canada afford to remain a passive consumer of allied space infrastructure? In this article, Kaya Dupuis argues that Canada must modernize its space governance framework, through updated export controls and a dedicated space security policy, to position its world-class space industry as a formal contributor to NATO security before the rules of governing commercial military space are written by others.