Some commentators argue that the cost-of-living crisis is mostly perception and that targeted income supports such as the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit are deficit-financed handouts that ...

Canada faces two intertwined crises: a housing affordability crunch and a climate challenge, with emissions from the housing sector declining too slowly to meet climate targets. Both issues are ...

The federal government recently released a new defence industrial strategy, with $6.6 billion of new funding attached. It comes with the lofty goal of eventually producing 70 per cent of our defence ...

The war in the Middle East, precipitated by an attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, has reopened debate in Canada about oil exports, global strategic petroleum reserves and what it could ...

Jeffrey F. Collins is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of Canada’s Defence Procurement Woes.

In late 2022, the federal government released its much-anticipated critical minerals strategy. This is the latest in a series of national plans aimed at securing minerals vital for renewable energy, ...

With a minority government in Ottawa, a federal election is possible at any time – triggered either deliberately or by accident. This encourages political observers to check opinion polls as often as ...

Following Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, many governments worldwide woke to the reality that the infrastructure fueling the rise of the digital economy also posed serious security ...

My first job after finishing university, involved editing videos and developing a database of potential funders for an arts organization. Today much of that work would be automated. In the coming ...

Since the early January U.S. arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the Trump White House has doubled down on the idea that the United States should acquire Greenland, which has ...

The emerging breadth and depth of Russian disinformation tactics represent a clear and present danger to Canadian sovereignty and freedom. Just as troubling, some Canadians consider Canada immune to ...

Canada’s robust asylum system is largely misunderstood. Many Canadians don’t actually know how asylum works, and the lack of understanding has allowed for a moral panic to develop around asylum ...