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Into the Breach: Leadership, Service, and Canada’s Place in a Changing World
Join General Wayne Eyre, former Chief of the Defence Staff and commander of the Canadian Armed Forces, for a special conversation celebrating the launch of his new memoir, Into the Breach: A Soldier’s Journey. Drawing on four decades of military service, Eyre reflects on leadership, national security, and the challenges facing Canada in an increasingly unstable world.

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Policy Brief - How Optimists Triumph and Change Happens
On October 1st, Robin Collins gave a keynote lecture titled "How Optimists Triumph and Change Happens". His remarks have been turned into a CIPS Policy Brief. He reflects on distinctive responses to three global problems: pandemics such as we experienced with COVID19; imminent climate-induced tipping points that are barreling towards us at a dangerous clip; and nuclear weapons/nuclear war. At the end he refers to some theory about How Change Happens, what some obstacles are, and why we can remain optimistic.

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The Current Security Environment Facing Japan and Canada, and Future Prospects
Canada is a resource-rich country with abundant energy resources, including LNG, as well as critical minerals used as raw materials for batteries and other products, and therefore has significant potential as a resource supplier. Japan, on the other hand, relies heavily on imports from abroad to secure energy resources, critical minerals, and other resources from the perspective of economic security. Diversifying sources of supply and strengthening supply chains have therefore become urgent priorities for Japan.

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Blog: The Deterrence Within Common Security
The Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues (ICDSI) in 1982 offered this to frame the idea of common security: States can no longer seek security at each other’s expense; it can be attained only through cooperative undertakings. Security in the nuclear age means common security. Even ideological opponents and political rivals have a shared interest in survival. There must be partnership in the struggle against war itself.

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The Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues (ICDSI) in 1982 offered this to frame the idea of common security: States can no longer seek security at each other’s expense; it can be attained only through cooperative undertakings. Security in the nuclear age means common security. Even ideological opponents and political rivals have a shared

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Into the Breach: Leadership, Service, and Canada’s Place in a Changing World

Policy Brief - How Optimists Triumph and Change Happens

The Current Security Environment Facing Japan and Canada, and Future Prospects

Blog: The Deterrence Within Common Security

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L’alliance industrielle de défense que Washington est en train de saborder

India–Canada relations: Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, and the Indo-Pacific

CIPS Best Blog Award 2026: Public Voting Now Open

Modern Warfare Is Changing – and So Is the Concept of Militarism

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