Politics – Views & Research

A man with his hands on his hips looks at rubble from an explosion.

Iran’s attacks drone on, with the U.S. at risk of losing the war

Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University

After the Iran war: 5 possible outcomes and 4 ways Canada can flex its middle-power muscle

Kawser Ahmed, University of Manitoba

Male protesters in front of several green white and red flags raise their fists.

Why Donald Trump will try to declare victory in Iran well before November

John Duncan, University of Toronto

A rotund man with blond-ish white fluffy hair blowing in the breeze disembarks from an aircraft down a set of stairs that reads miami-dade fire rescue

The economics of war extend far beyond energy prices and stock markets

Junaid B. Jahangir, MacEwan University

Two women stand as a thick plume of black smoke rises behind them.

Can countries replace SWIFT? Evidence from Russia suggests not easily

Mesbah Sharaf, University of Alberta and Abdelhalem Shahen, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University

A man looks at an exchange office sign showing the currency exchange rates of the Russian ruble, U.S. dollar, and euro

Danielle Smith’s immigration referendum fuels an ‘us versus them’ divide in Alberta

Esra Ari, Mount Royal University and Bronwyn Bragg, University of Lethbridge

As oil shortages deepen, wartime rationing offers a guide for today’s governments

Henri Chevalier, University of Waterloo

Trading rights for efficiency: Why Bill C-12’s restrictive asylum measures will likely backfire

Nicholas A. R. Fraser, University of Toronto

An airport arrivals sign in French and English.

Ontario is closing its supervised consumption sites, calling them a failure. So what counts as ‘success?’

Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Harvard University

A man in a blue suit speaking with his arm raised, with people seated behind him

Strike on Afghan hospital shows the laws of war may document atrocities — but don’t prevent them

Shabnam Salehi, Carleton University; L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Schoolchildren pose for a photo, one with sunflowers in her hair.

Ukraine’s stolen children expose the lies at the heart of Russia’s four-year military assault

Vincent Artman, University of Ostrava and Tamara Krawchenko, University of Victoria

A bulldozer in front of an ornate, heavily damaged apartment building.

U.S. actions in Iran are politically motivated, not the result of intelligence failures

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University and Jack Adam MacLennan, Park University

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

Ronald W. Pruessen, University of Toronto

A man in the street holding an upside down photo of Donald Trump; another man beside him holds an Iranian flag.

What does China’s host bid mean for the High Seas Treaty?

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia and Zelda Ladefoged, University of British Columbia

smal blue fish swim near coral in the sea

The West has long characterized Iran’s oil as a prize to be claimed

Ian Wereley, Carleton University

A black and white photo of a man using a telescope to survey an area while another stands beside him

A dark-haired man speaks at a podium against a backdrop of large American and Canadian flags.

Fact check: Pierre Poilievre’s misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast disrespects Canadians

Jaigris Hodson, Royal Roads University; Brianna I. Wiens, University of Waterloo; Nick Ruest, York University, Canada, and Shana MacDonald, University of Waterloo

War in Iran: Why destroying cultural heritage is such a foolish strategic move in any conflict

Costanza Musu, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

The crisis of youth aging out of care is why Canada needs a children and youth commissioner

Jacquie Gahagan, Mount Saint Vincent University; Dale Kirby, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Dr. Melanie M. Doucet, McGill University, and Mary Rita Holland, Mount Saint Vincent University

Heart cut outs in a garden, including one that says every child matters.

Alcoholic capitalism: How rum fuelled Canada’s early economy

Allan Greer, McGill University

Claims about genetic superiority ignore the real drivers of human inequality

Robert Chernomas, University of Manitoba and Ian Hudson, University of Manitoba

OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Simon Fraser University

A smartphone screen showing the ChatGPT app icon

Talk matters: How municipal council debates can enhance democracy

Karen Bird, McMaster University

A city worker in an orange vest uses a snowblower in front of Toronto city hall.

Is someone watching you? Facial recognition tech is here and Canada offers little privacy protection

Neil McArthur, University of Manitoba

A man wears a pair of black Ray-Ban smart glasses produced by Meta.

Canada’s three main federal political parties are working together to fight voter privacy rights

Sara Bannerman, McMaster University

A man in blurred silhouette next to a sign that read 'Voting Place.'

Students hold up protest signs, one reading 'F Your Fascism.'

The war on DEI reflects the quiet normalization of white nationalism — in the U.S. and beyond

Henry Giroux, McMaster University

A sign with the words travel visas written in english and french with a globe symbol

Canada’s immigration system is going digital, and accountability must keep pace

Marika Jeziorek, Balsillie School of International Affairs

An old orange hued man wearing a white cap with USA, written in gold salute as soldiers carry a coffin past him

When war looks like prophecy: How U.S. ‘end time’ narratives frame the war with Iran

André Gagné, Concordia University

Evangelical holy war: Why some Christians think Trump will end the world

Matthew Burkholder, University of Toronto

Israeli strikes on Tehran oil depot highlight gaps in international law

Alexandra R. Harrington, McGill University

A thick plume of black smoke rises in the background, in the foreground is a destroyed car

As war raises oil prices, households pay while energy companies profit

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia

A man walks along a rocky shoreline with oil tankers and cargo ships seen in the distance

Budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten Arctic science

Roxana Suehring, Toronto Metropolitan University and Patricia Hania, Toronto Metropolitan University

The federal government’s Musqueam agreements raise questions about who truly owns land

Daniel Sims, University of Northern British Columbia

Members of a First Nation wearing ceremonial dress in an urban park.

Treaty 4 brings up hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?

Ken Wilson, University of Regina

What is the Strait of Hormuz, and why does its closure matter so much to the global economy?

Warren Mabee, Queen's University, Ontario

Trump wants an ‘Independence Arch’ — How famous arches warn about dangers to republics

Kelly Summers, MacEwan University

A man in a 1960s style car waves from a back window near a triumphal arch and a uniformed police officer in a black and white photo.

Middle East conflict is pushing oil prices higher — and most Canadians will feel the costs

Subhadip Ghosh, MacEwan University

Close up of a person's hand holding a gas nozzle as they fill up car gas tank. In the background, an Esso gas station sign displays a fuel price of 164.9

How the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran helps Russia in its war against Ukraine

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University

Firefighters with a hose on a flaming pile of rubble.

A plume of smoke rises from a city that has been attacked.

Respecting international law depends on who breaks it: Why Canada backed the war against Iran

Jeremy Wildeman, Carleton University; L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran may succeed on a military basis, but at what cost?

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University and Jack Adam MacLennan, Park University

A large plume of smoke over a city as people watch from rooftops.

From Anthropic to Iran: Who sets the limits on AI’s use in war and surveillance?

Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill University

MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter prepares to take off from the USS Abraham Lincoln

The U.S.-Israel war with Iran could shatter the United Nations-led global order

Kawser Ahmed, University of Manitoba

A massive plum of grey smoke rises up from a city

Iran’s missile mayhem show the limits of Middle East defences

Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University

A large black plume of smoke spewing from a warehouse in an industrial area.

People obscured by umbrellas walking past a large outdoor steam clock.

B.C.’s switch to permanent DST adds to the ‘perfect storm’ for poorer adolescent sleep and mental health

Elizabeth Keys, University of British Columbia and Wendy Hall, University of British Columbia

Two men and a woman stand next to a display that shows a portion of a clock and reads 'It is 85 seconds to midnight.'

Why the Doomsday Clock has outlived its usefulness

Martin Hébert, Université Laval and Maxime Polleri, Université Laval

Men in red Team Canada jerseys at a bar looking up at a screen.

Why is Mark Carney rejecting gender equity efforts?

Jeanette Ashe, King's College London and Fiona MacDonald, University of Northern British Columbia

Mark Carney’s visit to India hits the reset button on the Canada–India relationship

Saira Bano, Thompson Rivers University

A slim man with short grey hair speaks at a podium with a Canada-India banner behind him.

Mark Carney in Australia: How he became the darling of the global anti-Trump movement

Stewart Prest, University of British Columbia

A slim man with short grey hair talks to a larger, older man with orange-hued skin and fluffy yellowish-white hair.

Six men sit in white armchairs on a stage speaking to a crowd of people

Can the 2026 FIFA World Cup still be a force for global unity?

Paul R. Carr, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) and Alexis Legault, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)

The ousting of Peru’s president points to a deeper crisis

Étienne Sinotte, McGill University

3 ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States

Charles Conteh, Brock University

People at a protest hold signs in spanish with a caricature of donald trump

How Canada-Cuba relations must navigate the dangers of the U.S. embargo

Luiz Leomil, Carleton University

The Epstein revelations have exposed how ‘Boy’s Club’ elites avoid accountability

Dahlia Namian, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

What the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal about how elites trade toxic gifts and favours

Hugh Gusterson, University of British Columbia

A rotund man with orange-hued white hair with a pained expression on his face standing next to a younger grey-haired man who shakes hands with a woman with her back to the camera.

Andrew’s arrest: will anything like this now happen in the U.S.? Why hasn’t it so far?

Emma Shortis, RMIT University

Printed copies of the Jeffrey Epstein files sit alongside a pic of the disgraced financier.

How Peter Mandelson went from US ambassador to arrested over misconduct claims

Sam Power, University of Bristol

Close up of Peter Mandelson in the Oval Office

Men in camouflage and wearing helmets walk en masse from a military transport plane on a tarmac.

Hey Trump: Here’s how Canada punched above its military weight in Afghanistan — from someone with a front-row seat

Eugene Lang, Queen's University, Ontario

As Alberta separatists court the U.S., prosperity is fuelling a sovereigntist turn

Tamara Krawchenko, University of Victoria

A thin man with short grey hair points and walks behind a hulking man with orange-ish white hair and splotchy orange-hued skin. Mountains are in the background.

Canada should be wary of embracing ‘total national defence’ to ward off an American invasion

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University

Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem — by the North, for the North

Shelagh McCartney, Toronto Metropolitan University; Aimee Pugsley, McGill University, and Julia Christensen, Queen's University, Ontario

Why Donald Trump is telling such obvious lies on the ICE Minneapolis killing

Jennifer Saul, University of Waterloo and Tim Kenyon, Brock University

‘Quiet, piggy’ and other slurs: Powerful men fuel online abuse against women in politics and media

Tracey Raney, Toronto Metropolitan University

A man with orange-ish skin tone and fluffy yellow-orange hair in a dark suit with a yellow tie gestures and grimaces as he speaks.

Blaming ‘wine moms’ for ICE protest violence is another baseless, misogynist myth

Darryn DiFrancesco, University of Northern British Columbia

A woman holds a sign that reads 'it was murder, stop ICE.'

How Trump’s separate meetings with Putin and Zelenskyy have advanced Russian interests

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University

A hulking rotund man with orange-ish blond hair and a face with thick bronzer stands grimacing next to a shorter man with dark hair and a beard wearing dark clothing who is smiling.

Trump and Putin didn’t hold new peace talks after all — but that was likely Putin’s plan all along

Oleksa Drachewych, Western University

A large man with fluffy blond hair in a blue suit and red tie shakes the hand of a smaller, balding man who is smirking.

People in parkas protest in front of a red clapboard building holding signs that read Greenland is Not For Sale. Snowy hills are in the background.

Trump’s annexation of Greenland seemed imminent. Now it’s on much shakier ground

Eric Van Rythoven, Carleton University

A protester holds a sign that reads WTF. Another person behind him holds a sign that reads No War.

Venezuela attack, Greenland threats and Gaza assault mark the collapse of international legal order

Jorge H. Sanchez-Perez, University of Alberta

An elderly man with fluffy white hair and orange-hued skin appears to nod off.

Health and competence are shaping Trump’s presidency. What about his predecessors?

Ronald W. Pruessen, University of Toronto

Donald Trump’s penchant for bullshit explains MAGA anger about the Epstein files

Tim Kenyon, Brock University

‘Your countries are going to hell’: Trump’s UN speech explained by an expert

David Curran, Coventry University

DOnald Trump stands at a podoim at the UN making a speech.

Trump renews push to end quarterly reporting — here’s what that would mean

Douglas A. Stuart, University of Victoria

An older white man with white hair in a navy suit speaks while seated at a desk

Donald Trump’s policies are more than dumb — they’re stupid, according to stupidity researchers

Jerry Paul Sheppard, Simon Fraser University

An elderly man with a mobile phone to his ear and wearing red Make America Great Again ballcap waves from the back of a limousine.

ICE pullback in Minneapolis shows the limits of Donald Trump’s scare tactics

Eli Lawrence Sopow, Adler University

A sea of protesters walk on a city street.

Why Donald Trump is such a relentless bullshitter

Tim Kenyon, Brock University

A man with white-ish blond hair is blurred speaking at a podium and in focus on a screen behind him.

Why America hasn’t become great again

Robert Chernomas, University of Manitoba and Ian Hudson, University of Manitoba

An American flag flies in the wind in front of a white domed building

A group of protesters walking down the street and carrying flags and signage that reads Free Iran

What Iran’s latest protests tell us about power, memory and resistance

Shirin Khayambashi, Toronto Metropolitan University

Why Iran keeps turning off the internet during mass protests

Niloofar Hooman, McMaster University

People walk along a city street strewn with garbage.

Cuba is facing an economic and social catastrophe, and not entirely because of Donald Trump

Robert Huish, Dalhousie University

Flag politics in Canada and New Zealand resulted in drastically different outcomes

Paul Hamilton, Brock University and Tristan Sheppard, Western University

What Canada can learn from Mexico’s approach to U.S. trade

Wolfgang Alschner, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A man and a woman shake hands in front of a backdrop that says MEXICO-CANADA

‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ hasn’t faded in Iran — it’s being actively eliminated

Mina Fakhravar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A woman protester sets a poster on fire with a cigarette.

Bangladesh’s election represents politics as usual, and some hope for change

Humayun Kabir, Thompson Rivers University

people raise their hands at a rally, a bangladeshi flag can be seen flying behind them

From Kathmandu to Casablanca, a generation under surveillance is rising up

Amani Braa, Université de Montréal

A regime change in Venezuela could have grim consequences for Canada’s oil sector

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia

Palm trees in the foreground as an oil tanker sits docked at a por

The Colombian border is one of the biggest obstacles to building a new Venezuela

Sally Sharif, University of British Columbia

An armed soldier stands near a border crossing.

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration

Sabine Lee, University of Birmingham; Heather Tasker, Dalhousie University, and Susan Bartels, Queen's University, Ontario

Why Russia’s provocations in Europe actually signal a weakened strategic position

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University

An airport screen shows a long list of diverted flights.

The Māori ward vote in New Zealand contains important lessons for Canada

Karen Bird, McMaster University

Crowds of people at a protest waving red, white and black flags.

Lasting peace and recovery in Gaza depends on local participation, not just ceasefires

Mahmood Fayazi, Royal Roads University

People walk along a road through a city that has been largely destroyed and left in rubble

In the Middle East, women journalists and activists have been driving crucial change

Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A woman with a red scarf smiles at the camera.

children's outreached hands carrying pots for food

Imagine a world without genocide

David Welch, University of Waterloo

The world on the brink: Why governments must invest in peace, not just arms

Jenna Sapiano, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

People walk though a dusty street of rubble.

What NATO could learn from Ukraine as it navigates Russian threats to European security

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University and Samuel Zilincik, Royal Danish Defence College

Firefighters on a destroyed roof of a house.

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Iran’s attacks drone on, with the U.S. at risk of losing the war

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Why Donald Trump will try to declare victory in Iran well before November

The economics of war extend far beyond energy prices and stock markets

Can countries replace SWIFT? Evidence from Russia suggests not easily

Danielle Smith’s immigration referendum fuels an ‘us versus them’ divide in Alberta

As oil shortages deepen, wartime rationing offers a guide for today’s governments

Trading rights for efficiency: Why Bill C-12’s restrictive asylum measures will likely backfire

Ontario is closing its supervised consumption sites, calling them a failure. So what counts as ‘success?’

Strike on Afghan hospital shows the laws of war may document atrocities — but don’t prevent them

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U.S. actions in Iran are politically motivated, not the result of intelligence failures

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

What does China’s host bid mean for the High Seas Treaty?

The West has long characterized Iran’s oil as a prize to be claimed

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Claims about genetic superiority ignore the real drivers of human inequality

OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance

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The war on DEI reflects the quiet normalization of white nationalism — in the U.S. and beyond

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When war looks like prophecy: How U.S. ‘end time’ narratives frame the war with Iran

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Israeli strikes on Tehran oil depot highlight gaps in international law

As war raises oil prices, households pay while energy companies profit

Budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten Arctic science

The federal government’s Musqueam agreements raise questions about who truly owns land

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