
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 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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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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All eight Arctic states are currently expanding their military facilities, patrols, and combat training in the region. As of October 10, the Washington-based Arctic Military Activity Tracker listed 35 significant exercises and training events across the region in 2025 – triple the pace of operations in 2022. While Canada has joined that trend, the Arctic
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