Étienne Thibault
analyst
Sovereignty and strategy: the Arctic, alliance commitments, Canada-US relations, defence posture, and the constitutional and historical argument underneath Canadian foreign policy.
- Defence
A Hundred Billion, and the Quiet Turn Toward Europe
Mélanie Joly says the defence industrial strategy is backed by $100 billion over ten years. The submarines are German, the surveillance plane is Swedish, and the minister says a change of administration in Washington wouldn't make the world safer.
- History
Invited, Then Interned
Ottawa went to Galicia and Bukovyna for farmers and got them. When war came, their Austro-Hungarian papers made them enemy aliens, and 8,579 people were interned until 1920 — two years after the armistice.
- History
The Republic on Lake Winnipeg
For six years New Iceland had its own constitution, its own councils and its own newspaper, inside Canada and outside any province. Then the boundary moved, and the smallpox it had brought with it had already moved further.
- China & the Pacific
A deadly day at Wainwright, and the wrong ocean
Canada is rebuilding its military around a North Atlantic commitment while the questions that will decide its economic future are Pacific.