Shared values, growing commercial relations, strong people to-people ties and a long history of mutual cooperation underline ...

These dramatic developments have set the tone for Canada’s evolving strategic posture with an increasingly unstable US ally, ...

Abbas Qaidari is a researcher specializing in international security and Arctic defence strategy. With over a decade of ...

Despite all logic some bad ideas seem destined to repeatedly arise in human affairs. One such hardy perennial is the illusion that the US can eliminate its vulnerability to ballistic missile attack by ...

Open Canada is an online magazine published by the Canadian International Council that aims to engage Canadians from all walks of life in a conversation about foreign policy and international affairs.

The bottom line is that election interference through social media is a growing threat to Canada’s digital sovereignty. In 2024, the Canadian government passed the Countering Foreign Interference Act, ...

With little fanfare this September in Vilnius, Lithuania the first international legally binding agreement on the governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was opened for signature. Negotiated by the ...

The Arctic is regarded by Arctic Council nations as an exceptional theatre in geopolitics. Focused on upholding regional governance structures, Arctic Council nations have also sought to coordinate ...

Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-US Relations, St. Francis Xavier University After having addressed the federal cabinet at its retreat in late August, Kristin Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to ...

International relations – not just the wars, but the study of discipline – are at a critical juncture, demanding urgent action. The modern nation-state emerged from the Peace of Westphalia (1648), ...

I spent some of the best days of my childhood on the West Beach of the Anishinaabe community Gchi’mnissing, an Island First Nation in southern Georgian Bay, Ontario. The thrill of jumping into the ...