Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the Policy Hawk Substack, where you can find incisive analysis of Canadian defence and security. It was published on September 15th. On Tuesday, Blacklock’s Reporter published a story alleging that then-defence minister Anita Anand approved Canadian Armed Forces personnel training members of China’s People’s Liberation Army in 2023.
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The Fate of the Earth By Jonathan Schell Stanford University Press One of the most influential books of the turn of the century alerting the population to the terrible effects of nuclear war has been Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth. The world has not become a safer place ever since the publication of the book.
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At the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2023, the geometrically illiterate German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated that Russia must change its course by “360 degrees” to ensure long-term peace in Ukraine! Any grade six student knows that when you make a 360-degree turn you end up exactly at the same place as before. Liz
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A few months back, in January, Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a remarkable speech in Davos that garnered a lot of media attention around the world, most of it very positive. Carney was credited with saying important things that no other leader has said publicly. Carney made reference to something written by renowned writer and
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In early 2025, weeks after we sent water bombers to help extinguish the Los Angeles wildfires, the second Trump administration launched an unprovoked economic assault on Canada accompanied by repeated threats to annex us, including through “economic force”. A year onwards, we have become a stronger country as a result. Shaken awake from our dream
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I haven’t watched The Simpsons for a long time, but one of my favourite episodes was “Homer the Great” from the sixth season, where Homer joins an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. Homer ends up becoming the leader of the Stonecutters Lodge, then he alienates all the other members so much that they
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A few years ago, there was a term sometimes applied to the United States: The Indispensable Nation. The problem in 2025, with Trump’s return to power, is that Canada and our other allies might have to find a way to make the US dispensable – or at least, as dispensable as we can manage. It
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The Trump administration continues its rhetoric about Canada becoming the 51st American state, most recently with Secretary of State Marco Rubio defending the idea on Canadian soil. New data from the Angus Reid Institute shows that virtually all Canadians remain resolutely opposed to the idea – with the notable exception of a sizeable minority of
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There are a number of times when I get suspicious about unanimity – when everyone seems to agree about something and there is no real dissent or criticism, except for voices so extreme or untrustworthy that most people automatically tune them out. Canadian defence policy seems to be one of those areas, where even the
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Like most Canadians, I was sick of Trump even before he was sworn in on January 20th. Now, pretty well everything that comes out of his mouth is a half-true, ignorant opinion, based on someone else’s ignorant opinion, or a total fabrication. His repeated claims that he wants to make Canada the 51st state show
