Aaron Shull and Wesley Wark sound a “cri de coeur” arguing for a new approach to national security strategy and honest, transparent engagement with the reality of the threats facing Canada. They outline the key threats and make a series of policy recommendations to assist the Government of Canada in addressing the challenges of a new security environment.
This special report is the capstone piece of Reimagining a Canadian National Security Strategy, a year-long project involving more than 250 Canadian and international experts. CIGI has gathered their work examining critical issues in Canada’s security landscape, including emerging threats related to disease outbreaks and climate change, in a series of 10 thematic reports.
Shull and Wark, the project’s directors, talk about the project in this video.
Yesterday morning, CBC reported on the findings and recommendations contained in the capstone report for CIGI’s National Security Strategy project. You can read the story here.
Two years into a pandemic, it seems we have learned so much, and yet so little. In other arenas, too, where is the learning curve? Why, for example, is Facebook making mistakes in Ethiopia similar to those it made in Myanmar?
As Heidi Tworek writes, if the current situation feels untenable, that feeling may also create an opportunity to serve up broader and bolder solutions.
During the Cold War, and in the post-9/11 struggle against international terrorism, security was a constant anxiety. But the Soviet Union and Islamist terrorism were for the most part kept distant from Canadian streets. In 2021, the security threats Canadians face are no longer remote.
As Greg Fyffe argues in this op-ed, Canada needs to review the current effectiveness of its intelligence machinery in supporting the foreign, defence and security policies that protect Canadians.
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel — co-founder of PayPal and Palantir — is an enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker. Often seen as a libertarian, he is at the same time very much an insider, actively involved in American politics, seemingly playing on both sides of the political divide.
In this episode of the Big Tech podcast, host Taylor Owen speaks to Thiel biographer Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’sPursuit of Power.
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