Les scientifiques prédisent que l’Arctique canadien sera ouvert à la navigation d’ici 20 à 50 ans. Une compétition internationale pour les ressources naturelles de cette partie du globe est à prévoir, et le Canada ne veut pas être en reste. Reste à savoir si nous avons les moyens de nos ambitions et si nous sommes en mesure d’assurer notre souveraineté sur les eaux arctiques canadiennes.

Alroy Fonseca reflects on the renewed attention that the Democratic Republic of Congo is receiving in the news, and the unavoidable conclusion that the situation there is hopeless.

With the Canadian federal elections over, Kendall Giberson analyses future prospects for the five major parties and what one could expect to see when the next election is called.

People who feel contempt for others often veil it with an attitude of excessive solicitude. The misogynist goes to great pains to show courtesy to women, the anti-Semite speaks fondly of his many Jewish friends. Amanda Ziebrinsky suspects the same mechanism at work in the $130 million that the Conservative government has just dedicated to its Mental Health Commission, and argues for a strategy which truly addresses the problem.

It's election time and the political spin doctors are hard at work. In this article, Kendall Giberson looks at how political advertising attempts to manipulate the public images of the two frontrunners, Stephen Harper and Stephane Dion.