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Robert Diab – Canada’s Lawful Access Bill: Heavy on Secrecy, Light on Accountability
Following Australia, Canada takes a middle path between the more and less coercive approaches of Britain and the United States — but with fewer…
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Canada’s High-tech Defence Imperative
The government will have to wrestle with the core challenge of managing ‘dual-use’ technologies for increased spending. By Michael P.A. Murphy, Tracey…
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Tracey Black – Real-Time Rail and the Future of Digital Payments in Canada
How to navigate the intersection of real-time payments, stablecoins and CBDCs in Canada’s shifting financial ecosystem?
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Colin Chia – Could Stablecoins Create Financial Instability?
Regulators need to act to manage risks that the rapid scaling up of stablecoins, and diverging approaches on how to govern them, pose to global…
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S. Yash Kalash – Digital Currencies Could Mitigate the Shocks of Trump’s Trade War
The resurgence of economic nationalism and protectionist trade policies has already triggered significant disruptions in global trade flows.
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Heidi Tworek and Alicia Wanless – How to Confront Canada’s Digital Dependence
Even a cursory glance at Canada’s digital providers exposes substantial reliance on foreign firms.
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June 2025

Kyle Hiebert – AI Is Reviving Fears Around Bioterrorism. What’s the Real Risk?
Chatbots might help bad actors obtain — or create — novel pathogens for destructive purposes.
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Tracey Forrest and Nikolas Guggenberger – Structuring Markets for Strategic Quantum Innovation
Nurturing quantum innovation for national security and economic prosperity.
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Rethinking India’s China Strategy: Why Trade Must Join the Security Tool Kit
India must break free from a purely security-first China policy and instead weave selective, safeguarded trade into its strategic approach.
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How Will Political Changes Shape the 2025 NATO Summit?
Among political transitions and debates about defence spending, what could we expect from the 2025 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit?
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S. Yash Kalash – Rebalancing Canadian Trade: Why ASEAN Matters More Than Ever
Southeast Asia represents a critical yet underleveraged avenue for Canada’s next-generation trade strategy.
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Raquel Garbers – It’s Tempting to Blame Trump for All the World’s Problems. Here’s Why We Shouldn’t
Blaming the Trump administration for global instability oversimplifies deeper structural shifts.
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