Reading Time: 5 minutes Disponible en français. In June 2017, the Government of Canada released its most recent defence policy statement: Strong, Secure, Engaged: Canada’s Defence Policy (SSE). SSE outlines Canada’s defence priorities for a 20-year period. In the 2022 federal budget, the government… Read More ›
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The Growing Importance of Open-Source Intelligence to National Security
Reading Time: 6 minutes Disponible en français. Intelligence agencies around the world, including the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), are increasingly acquiring, analyzing, using and sharing publicly available information (see Figure 1). Given the scale of data involved, artificial intelligence (AI) – particularly machine learning… Read More ›
Executive Summary – Climate Change: Impact and Policy Implications
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Disponible en français : Résumé – Les changements climatiques : Leurs répercussions et leur incidence sur les politiques) Unprecedented global warming has been observed in recent decades. Around the world, mean air and water temperatures have increased, amounts of snow… Read More ›
The Counter-Terrorism Framework in Canada
Reading Time: 9 minutes (Disponible en français : Cadre de lutte antiterroriste du Canada) Canada is not immune to terrorism. According to Global Affairs Canada, a number of international and domestic terrorist groups are present in Canada. Some are engaged in terrorist activity here,… Read More ›
Metadata, National Security and Law Enforcement Agencies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Holly PorteousLegal and Social Affairs Division (Also available in French: Métadonnées et organismes de sécurité nationale et d’application de la loi) Metadata – data about data – matters to national security and law enforcement agencies. They repeatedly tell parliamentarians… Read More ›