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  • 11 Mar 2026
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Canada

    Coal: Australia and Canada’s next middle‑power energy play

    Christopher Wright
    The chance for collaboration is not only in the minerals of the future but in the commodities of the present.
  • 5 Mar 2026
    • Canada

    Mark Carney’s Pacific pivot

    Grant Wyeth
    Canada’s Liberal PM is reorienting Ottawa’s world view – and eating the Conservative Party’s lunch while doing it.
  • 4 Feb 2026
    • Trade
    • Global Issues
    • International law
    • United Nations
    • Canada

    Mark Carney is wrong about the rules-based order

    Sandy Hollway
    Declaring the system a fiction ignores real achievements and only makes it easier for big powers to demand their way.
  • 23 Jan 2026
    • Global Issues
    • Canada
    • United States

    Middle powers can’t run the world

    Connor O’Brien , Quah Say Jye
    Mark Carney’s vision for a New World Order may be too good to be true.
  • 22 Jan 2026
    • Diplomacy
    • Canada

    Heated Rivalry: Canada's soft power flex

    Teesta Prakash , Mikaela Lui
    A hit Canadian TV series showcases everything that’s right about cultural confidence.
  • 21 Jan 2026
    • Australia
    • Global Issues
    • Canada
    • United States

    "A rupture, not a transition": Carney's new order

    Sam Roggeveen
    "When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself."
  • 11 Jun 2025
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Canada
    • United States

    Australia’s royal dilemma as King Charles serves conflicting Commonwealth interests with Trump

    Hugh Piper
    If Australians found their sovereignty threatened, would people want an unelected septuagenarian Englishman representing their interests as head of state?
  • 6 Jun 2025
    • Ukraine
    • Diplomacy
    • Canada
    • United States

    With friends like these…

    Mark Pierce
    In geopolitics, are the benefits of allies overrated?
  • 25 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Canada
    • United States

    For Trump, Australia is nothing like Canada

    George Boone
    Neighbours often have more complications than distant friends.
  • 11 Feb 2025
    • Asean
    • Trade
    • Canada

    Canada should look to ASEAN

    Imran Shamsunahar
    Diversifying partners offers a path to autonomy.
  • 5 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • United States

    Why, for Australia, Trump’s treatment of Canada is so troubling

    Sam Roggeveen
    The US alliance is far shallower and more transactional than its Australian supporters like to believe.
  • 14 Jan 2025
    • Canada
    • United States

    The practical obstacles to Canada as the 51st state

    Grant Wyeth
    Be serious for a moment – even if Donald Trump often doesn’t seem to be – and think through what stands in the way of an enlarged union.
  • 10 Jan 2025
    • Canada
    • United States

    Canada’s bumpy road ahead of Trump’s presidency, and its own election

    Stéphanie Fillion
    Justin Trudeau’s political demise was well underway, but annexation anxiety won’t make Canada’s next choice any easier.
  • 15 Oct 2024
    • India
    • Canada

    Australia can’t escape the India-Canada crossfire

    Priya Chacko
    The latest revelations are a wake-up call over the extent of India’s foreign interference.
  • 12 Dec 2023
    • India
    • Canada
    • United States

    India indicted? Unravelling an alleged assassination plot in America

    Daniel Flitton
    Legal documents can send a diplomatic message. But the questions raised might lead to unexpected turns.
  • 23 Nov 2023
    • India
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • United States

    A delicate dance: latest India allegations test the rules

    Daniel Flitton
    How far can “strategic trust” be stretched?
  • 13 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • The Trump Presidency
    • United States
    • Review

    Imagining Trump’s second term

    Mark Pierce
    Could Canada cope? Might Australia? Two books on the “vice in the chest and tightness in the stomach” prospect.
  • 4 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • Canada

    Glitch in the code: Google, Meta, and the fight over news in Canada and Australia

    Tanvi Nair
    The battle between tech giants and local regulations still carries an international flavour.
  • 28 Sep 2023
    • India
    • Canada

    Foreign policy begins at home. Ask Trudeau

    Ved Shinde
    Separatism, approval ratings and a Cold War hangover are the backdrop to the most recent Canada–India dispute.
  • 23 Jun 2023
    • China
    • Australia in the World
    • Public Opinion
    • Canada

    Perceptions and trust: Chinese views of Canada and Australia amid geopolitical tensions

    Ye Xue , Daniel Lincoln , Reza Hasmath , Jia Wang
    New data reveals lingering resentments as well as ongoing opportunities.
  • 20 Sep 2021
    • Canada

    Trudeau’s test: Taking stock of a foreign policy legacy

    Edward McCann
    The Canadian PM pivoted towards the Asia-Pacific, but has struggled to find tangible success.
  • 14 Sep 2021
    • Global Issues
    • China
    • Canada

    Fears China will play games with the 2022 Winter Olympics

    Colin Peebles Christensen
    Beijing’s practice of arbitrary arrest and “hostage diplomacy” is prompting a backlash that may lead to a boycott.
  • 6 Sep 2021
    • Canada

    Trouble for Trudeau

    Grant Wyeth
    An early election has left Canada’s PM in a pickle with a pandemic exhausted public also tired of personality politics.
  • 2 Jun 2021
    • Canada

    A resounding “oui” for an emoji in Canada

    Grant Wyeth
    After a new bill to protect French raises separatist jitters, Quebec nationalism gets everyone behind the flag.
  • 16 Feb 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • India
    • Canada
    • Coronavirus

    India, Canada and the new vaccine politics

    Grant Wyeth
    As a pharmaceutical powerhouse, India finds it now holds the cards over Canada and what it sees as its irksome PM.
  • 19 Jan 2021
    • China
    • Canada

    Wrong place, wrong citizenship: The tribulations of the “Two Michaels”

    Kim Richard Nossal
    China’s coercion in a broader geopolitical struggle continues to hold very personal consequences.
  • 27 Jul 2020
    • Diplomacy
    • United States
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • United Kingdom
    • Canada

    Five Eyes: Blurring the lines between intelligence and policy

    Ben Scott
    Intelligence sharing is one thing. Aligning policy with the same brand risks making too exclusive a grouping.
  • 1 Jul 2020
    • United States
    • China
    • Canada

    Canada won’t fall for China’s hostage diplomacy

    Grant Wyeth
    Releasing Meng Wanzhou wouldn’t raise Canada’s standing with China. Worse, it would betray its closest partner.
  • 23 Jun 2020
    • United Nations
    • Canada

    Woe Canada, a second consecutive UN rebuff

    Ramesh Thakur
    Even in a social media age, substance trumps style. There are lessons for Canberra in Ottawa’s Security Council failure.
  • 23 Sep 2019
    • Canada

    Canada’s Indo-Pacific pivot

    Grant Wyeth
    Canada has long looked across the Atlantic but the pull of the Pacific flank is growing stronger.
  • 22 Jan 2019
    • United States
    • China
    • Canada

    The fate of three Canadians may now rest with Donald Trump

    Donald R Rothwell
    Beijing can justifiably be concerned about the detention of a citizen, but not hold foreigners in arbitrary retaliation.
  • 13 Dec 2018
    • China
    • Canada

    Playing the hostage card: the Meng Wanzhou & Michael Kovrig cases

    Kim Richard Nossal
    <p>China’s tit-for-tat diplomacy with Canada has a recent precedent, yet Donald Trump is hardly helping.</p>
  • 22 Oct 2018
    • Canada

    Canada and Huawei: letting politics slip in

    Kim Richard Nossal
    Canada's decision to allow Huawei to participate in its 5G mobile networks is much more political than the PM suggests.
  • 8 Aug 2018
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Canada

    Saudis try block Canada’s feminist foreign policy

    Grant Wyeth
    An online spat has escalated into a formal diplomatic break in a test of the values professed by the Trudeau government.

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