Reading Time: 5 minutes Anxiety in London, Ottawa and Wellington that their influence is waning
Tag: Security
Japan is regaining its strategic importance in the Indo-Pacific
Reading Time: 6 minutes Japan is increasingly becoming an ever-more critical hinge for like-minded partners in the Indo-Pacific region
Reaching into the past for a better pandemic supply plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some vital economic sectors require government support and protection in order to grow and mature and not be held hostage to foreign influence
Recalibrating globalization in a pandemic age
Reading Time: 4 minutes Who defines what’s essential and should thus be sourced domestically, even if it’s more expensive to do so?
Canada fails internal, external defence expectations
Reading Time: 5 minutes From 5G concerns internally to military spending on equipment to contributions to NATO, Canada falls far short of pulling its weight
We must fight crime at its social roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes The rash of liquor store robberies in Winnipeg says more about underlying social problems than it does about the effectiveness of police
Lonely and hungry: the vital role of food banks
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost half of the people visiting food banks live alone. The single-household economy is clearly not doing so well. It’s time for some social retooling
Visual intelligence is the next wave of digital security
Reading Time: 3 minutes Visual intelligence allows for face identification, incident recognition, behaviour monitoring, object identification and even face or activity prediction
Four things Canada’s top spy didn’t say
Reading Time: 4 minutes David Vigneault’s recent speech was a slick deflection and thinly-veiled push for broader surveillance
On the run from tsunamis, missiles … and false alarms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alert systems like the text project that will soon be introduced across Canada can be extremely valuable, if they’re structured and managed properly