It is vital that Canada and Mexico work together in the face of military aggression and egregious violations of international law by our mutual neighbour, the U.S.
Canada could publicly reject the unilateral and illegal nature of the sanctions, and pressure banks and financial institutions to resist U.S. demands.
Japan and Canada share the vision of a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific,’ and a close partnership between the defence industries of both countries is coming into view.
CUSMA negotiations may spell further trouble as the carceral agribusiness competes in Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, and implicates prison labour in a supply chain of powdered milk exports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has suggested that the new world order will be built out of Europe, but analysts have their doubts.
The history of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is often misunderstood, obscured by competing narratives and outright misconceptions.
The prime minister’s New York visit signals a push for industrial acceleration. But too often, social policy debates collapse into a single question: how does this improve our competitiveness?
Even before the United States and Israel attacked Iran, it was at least two years of hard work away from a working nuclear weapon.
Alliances will shift, trade talks will stall, and military procurement decisions will be reconsidered all because one party is no longer interested in hearing the other’s views.
Both countries possess the capacity to work in concert to protect ethical trade practices and fair competition across the continent. If this dispute is genuinely about forced labour, then there is much constructive work to be done together. But is it?
Will we simply hope that our raw materials will sustain our prosperity? Or do we need to become aggressively proactive in building a new knowledge-based economy? The latter will take much greater effort than has been deployed so far.
‘It’s a shot across the bow. The U.S. administration has clearly been watching the PM’s moves on defence and has concludes that there’s too much talk and too little action,’ says defence expert Christian Leuprecht.
There are many other factors to blame for fewer people having kids: housing affordability, unrealistic expectations promoted by online influencers, even the growing scarcity of entry-level jobs. But the most persuasive is phones, phones, phones.
Any American commitment to defend Taiwan from China’s aggression died years ago when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine and the U.S. did not come to its defence. But that doesn’t mean the island is doomed.
Conservative Whip Chris Warkentin says it ‘seems’ that the budget of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group will be slashed by 40 per cent.
The U.S. announced on May 18 that it is pausing participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, alleging Canada hasn’t made ‘credible’ progress on defence investments.
The greatest threat to auto workers is the active U.S. trade war shuttering plants, not hypothetical Chinese competition.
For Donald Trump, burdened with a sluggish economy, an unpopular war, and polling numbers lower than the morale at the Pentagon, the goal is trade deals that will ease his problems back home. That’s why he took every billionaire business dude he could find along on the trip. For Xi Jinping, the calculus is different.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes threatens to go nuclear, but his bluffs are as transparent as U.S President Donald Trump’s threats of violence ‘like nobody has ever seen before.’
The House Subcommittee on International Human Rights’ May 7 report was 780 words long, and didn’t declare whether a genocide is unfolding in Sudan, disappointing some past witnesses.
In the absence of leadership from the planet’s aspiring hegemons, it’s no wonder there’s a call for the formation of coalitions of like-minded middle powers to address what are effectively threats to the planet, including global warming.
The scale and complexity of today’s hunger crisis demand sustained leadership, and a commitment to invest in resilient food systems that address the root causes of hunger.
Mark Carney is currently in a ‘sweet spot’ because it’s still relatively early in his government. The time when Canadians could start getting hungry to see results from the prime minister on major projects, such as oil pipelines, might not be until next year, says Nik Nanos.
