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On this episode of Battle Rhythm, Steve & Anessa discuss NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept, Canada’s turbine-related sanctions on Russia & GoC’s push for more airspace privacy. For today’s feature interview, Steve speaks with Senior political reporter for Global News, Amanda Connolly, about her experiences as one of Canada’s few nationals ecurity and defence journalists.

On this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle and Joe Calnan talk about current events in energy security, including the Inflation Reduction Act, updates on the situation in Europe, and the prospect of a JCPOA revival. For the interview section of the podcast, Kelly Ogle talks with Sean Collins on the potential of waste-to-heat for both circular economy and energy uses. Guest Bio: - Sean Collins is the CEO of Varme Energy Canada Inc. Host Bio: - Kelly Ogle is the CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute What is Sean reading? - Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown https://www.amazon.ca/Stone-Soup-Marcia-Brown/dp/0689711034 - Butts are Everywhere, by Jonathan Stutzman https://www.amazon.ca/Butts-Are-Everywhere-Jonathan-Stutzman/dp/0525514511 Interview recording Date: July 25, 2022. Energy Security Cubed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Joe Calnan. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

In the third episode of Battle Rhythm, Season 2 with co-host Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, Director of the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military, Security & Strategic Studies, and co-director of the CDSN. Steve & Erin discuss state secrets and SCIFs vis a vis Mar-a-Lago; Canada’s rising hate crime problem, and the US-Russia prisoner exchange. For today’s feature interview, Steve speaks with Ali Wyne, senior analyst with Eurasia Group's Global Macro-Geopolitics practice about his new book "America's Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition" (Polity, 2022)

On this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson speaks to William Crosbie about Afghanistan, one year after its fall to the Taliban. Participant bio: William Crosbie is the Executive Director of the Heart of Asia Society and former Ambassador to Afghanistan. https://heartofasiasociety.org/team/ambassador-william-crosbie/ Host Bio: Colin Robertson is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute – https://www.cgai.ca/staff#Robertson What Mr. Crosbie is reading/ listening to: The Rest is History – https://play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-history-podcast Monocle 24 – https://monocle.com/radio/ There is Nothing for You Here by Dr. Fiona Hill – https://www.harpercollins.com/products/there-is-nothing-for-you-here-fiona-hill Why the Germans Do It Better by John Kampfner – https://www.waterstones.com/book/why-the-germans-do-it-better/john-kampfner/9781786499783 Recording Date: 4 August 2022. Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on Apple Podcast! Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, Dave Perry speaks to Dr. Jessica West, Kristen Csenkey, and BGen Chris McKenna about the governance, technology, and norms needed to improve situational awareness in North America. his episode is an excerpt from our North American Defence Conference, which took place on May 19th, 2022 in Ottawa. The event was made possible thanks to the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, Irving Shipbuilding, and Davie Shipyard, as well as our conference title sponsor L3 Harris Technologies and bronze sponsor Raytheon Technologies Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding and Davie Shipyard. Participants' bios: Dr. Jessica West is a Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares Kristen Csenkey is a CGAI Fellow and a PhD Candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs BGen Chris McKenna is Director General Air and Space Force Development for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Host bio: David Perry is the President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute Recording Date: 19 May 2022 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

On this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle interviews Kathryn Porter about dramatic shortfalls in electricity supply occurring around the world. Guest Bio: - Kathryn Porter is the founder of Watt-Logic. You can find Watt-Logic here: https://watt-logic.com/ Host Bio: - Kelly Ogle is the CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute What is Kathryn reading? - Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, by Meredith Angwin https://www.amazon.ca/Shorting-Grid-Hidden-Fragility-Electric/dp/0989119084 Interview recording Date: July 11, 2022. Energy Security Cubed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Joe Calnan. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

On this episode of the Global Exchange, Maureen Boyd speaks to the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, Amb. Bob Rae, and Meredith Preston McGhie about the challenges facing multilateralism. This episode is an extract from our conference "After the War: What Kind of World for Canada?" which happened on May 10th, 2022. This event was made possible thanks to the support of our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, Irving Shipbuilding, and Davie Shipyard, and of our Bronze conference sponsors, Enbridge and TD. Read: The Return by Kamal Al-Solaylee – https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443456159/return/ Putin's People by Catherine Belton – https://www.pushkinhouse.org/putins-people-by-catherine-belton This Will Not Pass by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns – https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Will-Not-Pass/Jonathan-Martin/9781982172480 Nerve by Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera – https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/nerve-lessons-on-leadership-from/9781770416017-item.html Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306890/turn-right-at-machu-picchu-by-mark-adams/ Participants bios The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark is former Prime Minister of Canada Amb. Bob Rae is Canada's Representative to the United Nations Meredith Preston McGhie is the Secretary General of the Global Centre for Pluralism Host Bio; Maureen Boyd is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson Recording Date: 10 May 2022. Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on Apple Podcast! Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, MGen Sean Boyle speaks to Omar Rashid, Dr. Guillaume Côté, and Col Donald Saunders on how to modernize command and control to pursue digitally enabled, pan-domain decision-making This episode is an excerpt from our North American Defence Conference, which took place on May 19th, 2022 in Ottawa. The event was made possible thanks to the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, Irving Shipbuilding, and Davie Shipyard, as well as our conference title sponsor L3 Harris Technologies and bronze sponsor Raytheon Technologies Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding and Davie Shipyard. Participants' bios: Omar Rashid is the Regional Business Leader at Microsoft. Dr. Guillaume Côté leads International Strategy for Mission Systems. a Collins Aerospace business focussing on defence. Col Donald Saunders is the Director of the NORAD Forward Element. Host bio: MGen Sean "Kiwi" Boyle is the Deputy Director Continental Defence Policy. David Perry is the President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute Recording Date: 19 May 2022 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

On this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle and Joe Calnan talk about current events in energy security, including EU steps to reduce gas demand, oil disputes in Kurdistan, and the potential for China to upend the LNG market. For the interview section of the podcast, Kelly Ogle discusses where global oil supply and demand stand currently with Rory Johnston. Guest Bio: - Rory Johnston is the founder of Commodity Context. Find him @Rory_Johnston on Twitter, or at https://www.commoditycontext.com/ Host Bio: - Kelly Ogle is the CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute What is Rory reading? - Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West, by Katherine Belton - Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive, by Philipp Dettmer - Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein Interview recording Date: July 25, 2022. Energy Security Cubed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Joe Calnan. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

On this episode of the Global Exchange, Colin Robertson talks to Elbridge Colby about his book, The Strategy of Denial, and to John Gruetzner about the implications for Canada Participants' bios: Elbridge Colby is co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development. https://www.themarathoninitiative.org/elbridge-colby/ John Gruetzner is a CGAI fellow and is responsible for international business development for a Canadian-based technology firm, Syngrafii Inc. https://www.cgai.ca/john_gruetzner Read & Watch The Strategy of Denial by Elbridge Colby – https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Denial-American-Defense-Conflict/dp/0300256434/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Elbridge+Colby&qid=1615236310&sr=8-2 John Gruetzner's work: https://www.cgai.ca/tags/John_Gruetzner China Hand by Scott Spacek – https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/China-Hand/Scott-Spacek/9781637583869 Leadership by Henry Kissinger – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/692733/leadership-by-henry-kissinger/9780593489444 Ekaterina Velikaya –https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3764724/ Catherine the Great: Protrait of a Woman by Robert Massie – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/108892/catherine-the-great-portrait-of-a-woman-by-robert-k-massie/ Recording Date: 18 July 2022. Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on Apple Podcast! Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.