• Colour Me Sceptical – The F35 vs. The Gripen

    Colour Me Sceptical – The F35 vs. The Gripen

    A table outlining an internal Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 2021 study on the F35 versus the Gripen has magically shown up in the press at just the very moment it can most influence the choice about to be made on a new fighter jet. What an amazing coincidence!  Of all the times for such

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  • The Demise of Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy

    The Demise of Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy

    Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered the death blow to Canada’s feminist foreign policy while attending the G20 summit in South Africa last weekend. At a press conference in Johannesburg, in response to a question, he stated, “I wouldn’t describe our foreign policy as feminist foreign policy”. In one short sentence, Carney ended an eight-year initiative

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  • Indigenous Peoples and the Museum in the Indo-Pacific

    Indigenous Peoples and the Museum in the Indo-Pacific

    Indigenous nations, who have centuries of experience in diplomatic protocols, are becoming increasingly recognized as diplomatic actors rather than as ethnic minorities of their encapsulating states. One implicit recognition of this fact is the way in which Canada began its 2022 Indo-Pacific Strategy with the observation that the region accounts for 67% of the world’s

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  • Iran on the Boil?

    Iran on the Boil?

    The joint Israeli-US strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in June were supposed to end the threat of Iranian proliferation for decades to come. Certainly, President Trump claimed that they had succeeded and that Iran’s most concerning nuclear sites were “Completely and fully obliterated.” It now appears that this was not true. As many analysts had

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