Making sense of national security events
In a live New Year’s address, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said the island is determined to defend its sovereignty and bolster its defence in the face of China’s growing assertiveness.
He urged opposition parties to support his proposal to increase Taiwan’s defence spending by C$55 billion (US$40 billion), a plan currently stalled amid a political deadlock in the opposition-controlled parliament.
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A cargo vessel severed an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, around 4:53 a.m. local time. Finnish police said they suspected this was an act of sabotage.
The cargo ship ‘Fitburg’ was en route from Saint Petersburg, Russia to the port in Haifa, Israel when it damaged an undersea cable connecting the capitals of Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. The vessel was sailing under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the time of the incident.
Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service in Belarus, The Russian Defence Ministry said Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
They released footage it said showed Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile systems in Belarus. The video shows several military vehicles arriving at an undisclosed location in Belarus.
On December 18, 2025 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had said that the Oreshnik systems had arrived in the country. Lukashenko said that up to 10 such missile systems will be stationed in Belarus.
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IBM Distinguished Engineer Jeff Crume, known affectionately online as IBM’s Security Guy, provides an overview of what happened in the world cybersecurity in 2025. He then uncovers the risks shaping 2026 as Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing redefine security.
Crume provides a brief overview of Shadow AI, polymorphic malware, and post-quantum cryptography, and what that means for the future.
The following is an excerpt from a December 30, 2025 Globe and Mail article by:
It’s true that Canada has been able to coast along without this capability to this point. We have relied on our Five Eyes partners to share their products collected and analyzed for their own purposes with us. Our diplomats have filled gaps through their reporting. We’ve excelled at foreign signals intelligence and allowed CSIS to collect security intelligence abroad. But in the storm of the current geopolitical environment, this approach is quickly becoming a glaring vulnerability. Our sovereignty and resilience demand that we discover and know for ourselves what’s happening to us in the world.
Continue reading “Canada urgently needs it’s own foreign intelligence service”
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Canada’s June 19, 2024 listing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity contravenes international law.
In response, Tehran, today, December 30, 2025, has designated Canada’s navy as a terrorist organization.
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CNN is reporting the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out a drone strike on a remote dock on the Venezuelan coast. The US Government is claiming, without producing evidence, the facility was being used by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to store drugs and move them onto boats for shipping.
Sources told CNN no one was at the facility at the time of the drone strike, and there were no casualties.