Canada’s security relationships and obligations, from its NATO commitments and NORAD partnership with the United States to its evolving posture in the Indo-Pacific and the cyber domain.
Ottawa is spending more than $40 billion to defend the North. The people whose continuous presence underwrites Canada's claim to it are warning that they have other options.
At Akwesasne, Mohawks cross between Canada and the United States to reach their own homes. A 1794 treaty says they can. Canada has never written it into law.
The 2023 allegations against India collided with a wider anxiety about foreign meddling, and changed how Ottawa polices its own democracy.
Jeremy Hansen became the first person from any country but the United States to reach the Moon's vicinity. How Canada bought its way to deep space says a lot about how this alliance actually works.
Canada and Japan have spent 2026 wiring themselves together: minerals, gas, satellites, food. It is a hedge dressed as a partnership, and a wager on a world that no longer works the way it did.
For sixty-eight years Canada and the United States have guarded a single sky through NORAD. Now they are spending tens of billions to rebuild it, a quiet act of shared sovereignty the trade fight hasn't touched.
A new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership binds Canada and Japan across defence, energy and technology. Read the fine print and it is really a shared diagnosis: the old order isn't coming back.
In one season, a Montreal firm was picked to build the payload for Japan's next defence satellite, and Japan sat out the biggest procurement in Canadian history. The split verdict shows where the partnership's ceiling is.
Ottawa has opened negotiations with Germany's TKMS for up to 12 submarines, with South Korea's Hanwha Ocean retained as the reserve supplier.
Ottawa is one of the largest funders of the armed international mission fighting Haiti's gangs, more than $126 million and a seat overseeing it. A relationship built on development assistance has acquired a hard edge.
A $200-million lease near Canso, Nova Scotia, marks Canada's shift from satellite user to sovereign launch state. The company that has to deliver it has never launched anything.
The Indo-Pacific Strategy was Canada's most ambitious Asia plan in a generation. Its central relationship (India) ruptured almost immediately. What the strategy has become since is more revealing than what it promised.
Canada helped invent modern AI and then watched the money leave. Its bet now is that the democratic world will trust it to set the guardrails, the way it once helped invent peacekeeping.
Ottawa has finally hit NATO’s 2% defence target. The alliance has already moved the goalposts to 5%.
CAE builds the simulators where pilots learn before they ever touch a real cockpit, a quiet Canadian champion that has become the world's training house for aviation, defence, and medicine.
The Montreal planemaker finished 2025 with its turnaround complete and a record backlog, and its fastest-growing business is now outfitting allied militaries with mission aircraft built on Canadian airframes.
The binational command at the centre of Canada–U.S. continental defence: what it does, how it is run, and why its modernization matters now.