15 Oct 2024
Australia can’t escape the India-Canada crossfire
The latest revelations are a wake-up call over the extent of India’s foreign interference.
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12 Dec 2023
India indicted? Unravelling an alleged assassination plot in America
Legal documents can send a diplomatic message. But the questions raised might lead to unexpected turns. -
23 Nov 2023
A delicate dance: latest India allegations test the rules
How far can “strategic trust” be stretched? -
13 Oct 2023
Imagining Trump’s second term
Could Canada cope? Might Australia? Two books on the “vice in the chest and tightness in the stomach” prospect. -
4 Oct 2023
Glitch in the code: Google, Meta, and the fight over news in Canada and Australia
The battle between tech giants and local regulations still carries an international flavour. -
28 Sep 2023
Foreign policy begins at home. Ask Trudeau
Separatism, approval ratings and a Cold War hangover are the backdrop to the most recent Canada–India dispute. -
23 Jun 2023
Perceptions and trust: Chinese views of Canada and Australia amid geopolitical tensions
New data reveals lingering resentments as well as ongoing opportunities. -
20 Sep 2021
Trudeau’s test: Taking stock of a foreign policy legacy
The Canadian PM pivoted towards the Asia-Pacific, but has struggled to find tangible success. -
14 Sep 2021
Fears China will play games with the 2022 Winter Olympics
Beijing’s practice of arbitrary arrest and “hostage diplomacy” is prompting a backlash that may lead to a boycott. -
6 Sep 2021
Trouble for Trudeau
An early election has left Canada’s PM in a pickle with a pandemic exhausted public also tired of personality politics. -
2 Jun 2021
A resounding “oui” for an emoji in Canada
After a new bill to protect French raises separatist jitters, Quebec nationalism gets everyone behind the flag. -
16 Feb 2021
India, Canada and the new vaccine politics
As a pharmaceutical powerhouse, India finds it now holds the cards over Canada and what it sees as its irksome PM. -
19 Jan 2021
Wrong place, wrong citizenship: The tribulations of the “Two Michaels”
China’s coercion in a broader geopolitical struggle continues to hold very personal consequences. -
27 Jul 2020
Five Eyes: Blurring the lines between intelligence and policy
Intelligence sharing is one thing. Aligning policy with the same brand risks making too exclusive a grouping. -
1 Jul 2020
Canada won’t fall for China’s hostage diplomacy
Releasing Meng Wanzhou wouldn’t raise Canada’s standing with China. Worse, it would betray its closest partner. -
23 Jun 2020
Woe Canada, a second consecutive UN rebuff
Even in a social media age, substance trumps style. There are lessons for Canberra in Ottawa’s Security Council failure. -
23 Sep 2019
Canada’s Indo-Pacific pivot
Canada has long looked across the Atlantic but the pull of the Pacific flank is growing stronger. -
22 Jan 2019
The fate of three Canadians may now rest with Donald Trump
Beijing can justifiably be concerned about the detention of a citizen, but not hold foreigners in arbitrary retaliation. -
13 Dec 2018
Playing the hostage card: the Meng Wanzhou & Michael Kovrig cases
<p>China’s tit-for-tat diplomacy with Canada has a recent precedent, yet Donald Trump is hardly helping.</p> -
22 Oct 2018
Canada and Huawei: letting politics slip in
Canada's decision to allow Huawei to participate in its 5G mobile networks is much more political than the PM suggests. -
8 Aug 2018
Saudis try block Canada’s feminist foreign policy
An online spat has escalated into a formal diplomatic break in a test of the values professed by the Trudeau government.