Canada has restarted military talks with China after a break of more than eight years that began with Beijing’s jailing of two Canadians in late 2018.

The Centre for Strategic Statecraft (CSS) officially launched today as a new independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canada’s capacity to advance its interests and exercise greater agency in a more competitive and fragmented world.

Canada has been seeking to link discussions on critical minerals to broader conversations about its relationship with the U.S., but that may not bear fruit, say observers.

Feeling down about Trump’s trade wars and the latest tariff hit against Canada? Don’t be despondent. Though things may get a lot nastier, particularly if we get trapped in a cycle of counterretaliation, Canadians can take some comfort in the fact that trade wars don’t last forever.

The real question is not how much short-term trade pain Canada can inflict on the United States, but how Canada can use this opportunity for long-term gain by building a stronger, resilient economy at home. That is why Canada must play defence, not offence.

How China and India could reap the benefits of a divided Canada-U.S. trade relationship

Analysts say Canada may lose 100,000 jobs under the current tariffs and could go into recession if the USMCA pact ends.

Canada plans retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. starting September 8, rejecting U.S. demands for veto power over its trade deals, says PM Carney.

Plus, François-Philippe Champagne will meet with his Indian counterpart in Toronto.

Despite increased drills between the two allies, there are concerns that Washington’s aversion to conflict could weaken its commitment

Andrew Chang breaks down why Washington is stepping back now, and what Trump's move may signal for the future of the U.S.–South Korea alliance.

Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a bilateral meeting with Canada’s Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne.

The Canadian prime minister called for pro-trade democracies to resist great-power coercion together. Seven months later, he is largely fighting Trump alone.

The recent trade talks mark only the end of the beginning of negotiations with the Trump administration. We should expect the U.S. to continue using its economic leverage to dominate Canada, potentially forcing our country into a customs union-like arrangement in which Washington dictates the terms.

Experts say even a last-minute breakthrough will not result in the US lifting all its tariffs against Canadian goods.

Vina Nadjibulla, former Vice President for Research and Strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, credited pragmatic diplomacy with allowing Vietnam to build relationships with a range of partners without becoming overly dependent on any single country.

As U.S. President Donald Trump’s Aug. 19 deadline approaches, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making concessions to keep looming tariffs at bay.

Critical and emerging technologies (CETs), including artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, cyber capabilities, quantum technologies, drones, advanced communications and space systems, are increasingly central to India’s evolving national security strategy.

Martin Cauchon, a vice-chair of the Canada China Business Council lobby group and former Liberal cabinet minister, is under consideration to be Ottawa’s envoy to China as both countries work to mend fractured diplomatic and economic ties, three sources say.

Amid this rising instability, Canada and Japan are reliable partners, with shared values and aligned strategic interests. The task for Canada and Japan will be to turn the agreements and frameworks in place into concrete action which can secure their continued security.

As the U.S.-Iran conflict pulls eyes to the Middle East, Canadians need to maintain a steady gaze north. When it comes to protecting sea lanes, not all the action is in the Straits of Hormuz.

Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy, released in 2022, designated South Korea as a key player in the region. Since then, the two countries have increased the scope of their cooperative efforts.

Somewhere in Canada’s financial system sits as much as $22 billion belonging to Russia’s central bank. No Canadian regulator has identified it. No one has frozen it. And it’s been hiding in plain sight for more than four years, through the worst war Europe has seen since 1945.

If we act now, we will be a country that can produce far more of what it consumes at a profit.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to appoint an advisory panel for the upcoming USMCA negotiations is welcome. Canada and its allies have long relied on such independent, cross-sectoral expertise to inform complex trade strategy.

Today’s coalitions look less like parties and more like potlucks. Every participant is expected to put something on the table – whether it’s just a bag of chips or a full dressed turkey. The message now is that you cannot arrive empty-handed and expect a seat.

Senior cabinet ministers and government officials have engaged repeatedly with India since Mr. Carney and Narendra Modi met at the G7 meeting in June, 2025. Still, it was hard to envisage such ambition a year ago. What are its prospects?

Diversification cannot simply mean shifting from overdependence on the U.S. to deeper concentration in Europe.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January 2026 visit to China marked a pragmatic recalibration of Canada–China relations and a broader shift towards a more interest-based, strategically autonomous Canadian foreign policy.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China marks a significant milestone in this country’s relations with Beijing. It signals Ottawa’s intent to improve a strained relationship at a moment when Canada is also navigating threats from the Trump administration.

One essential element remains underdeveloped: a national data strategy capable of fuelling the sovereign compute engine we are trying to build—and ensuring its benefits accrue at home.

Verifying what’s real and what’s wrong takes humans with critical thinking skills. B.C. newsrooms are responding in kind.

How might history, our Ukrainian friends or Canadians judge us if $22-billion in frozen Russian state assets are drained overnight from Canadian banks and funnelled back into Russia’s war machine?

This week Canada’s Liberal Party pulled off an improbable, come-from-way-behind fourth-term win. There will be little time for the party or its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to celebrate.

Canada’s giant response to the MAGA threat means that we must spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade for our country to remain prosperous and secure.

From Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and China’s coercive diplomacy, to American protectionism and the fracturing of global institutions, the world order is no longer predictable. Yet Ottawa continues to navigate these crises with an outdated and ineffective foreign-policy tool kit.

Earlier this week, it appeared as if the Trump administration was going to follow through on its threat to impose a sweeping 25 percent tariff across the board on Canadian exports to the United States.

Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy has great potential for helping create a mutually beneficial relationship with the emerging Asian country