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Title: Texas’ Energy Security Crisis

Energy Security3, released bi-weekly Thursday, is the CGAI’s podcast on all thing’s energy security. Join our host Kelly Ogle as he and a diverse group of experts explore the three pillars that form the nexus of energy security in Canada: Energy, Economics, and Environment.

On this special episode, on the Energy Security3 Podcast, Kelly Ogle is joined by energy expert and Principal at JTC Energy Research Associates LLC, Jude Clemente, to discuss the rolling blackouts in Texas and its implications for energy security.

Participant Bio:

-Jude Clemente is a Principal at JTC Energy Research Associates LLC. and a sought-after energy commentator and expert.

Host Bio:

- Kelly Ogle (host): President and CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (https://www.cgai.ca/staff#Ogle)

What Jude Clemente is reading:

John Tauranac, The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark, https://www.amazon.ca/Empire-State-Building-Making-Landmark/dp/0801479398

Recording Date: 18 February, 2021

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Produced by Seth Scott and Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, Tom Ring speaks to Joe DePietro, Tony Johns, and Michael MacMahon about what Canada can learn from other countries for the governance of the Canadian Surface Combatant project.

EPISODE NOTES – https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/cdfai/pages/4713/attachments/original/1628105167/Warship_Governance.pdf?1628105167

Participants Bio:

Joe DePietro serves as vice president of Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) Small Combatants and Ship Systems market segment. Mr. DePietro is an experienced program manager with more than two decades of ship construction and mission systems integration expertise. In his current position, he is responsible for the strategic, execution and sustainment activities for the domestic Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program and its international variant the Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC).

Tony Johns is a highly experienced Shipyard Managing Director, Major Programme Director, and Government Procurement Director in very large, complex, maritime programmes. Tony has led the BAE Systems Submarines shipbuilding business with sales of over £1.5Bn per annum employing 8500 people in a demanding commercial and political environment, but also has long experience of government defence procurement having led the UK Royal Navy's Nuclear Propulsion Programme and the Attack Submarine Programme.

Dr. Michael McMahon is a senior researcher in RAND’s defence acquisition, technology and maritime analysis team. He retired from the United States Navy as a Rear Admiral in 2011 as Program Executive Officer for Aircraft Carriers and joined RAND in the National Security Research Division in Washington DC. McMahon was a surface warfare officer and engineering duty officer in the U.S. Navy for 32 years. Prior to achieving Flag rank, he was the U.S. Navy’s Supervisor of Shipbuilding at Newport News, Virginia, where he supervised VIRGINIA class submarine construction, NIMITZ and FORD class nuclear aircraft carrier construction and refuelling, and nuclear submarine repair, modernization and overhaul.

Host Bio:

Tom Ring has nearly 40 years of federal government experience. Most recently, he served as Assistant Deputy Minister (Acquisitions) at Public Works and Government Services Canada, and Assistant Deputy Minister (Public Affairs) at the Department of National Defence. While at PWGSC, he was responsible for all defence acquisitions and was the government’s lead negotiator on many complex procurement files. He is one of the architects of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy, the Defence Procurement Strategy and the Smart Procurement initiative.

Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry)

Recording Date: 26 Feb 2020

This episode is made possible thanks to the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, and Saab.

This podcast is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding. A strategic partner of the federal government’s National Shipbuilding Strategy, providing skilled, well-paying jobs that support Canada’s economic recovery. 

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Title: Canadian Uranium

Energy Security3, released bi-weekly Thursday, is the CGAI’s podcast on all thing’s energy security. Join our host Kelly Ogle as he and a diverse group of experts explore the three pillars that form the nexus of energy security in Canada: Energy, Economics, and Environment.

In this episode, on the Energy Security3 Podcast, Kelly Ogle is joined by CEO and President of Nextgen Energy Ltd., Leigh Curyer, to discuss Uranium and its role in the Canadian nuclear landscape.

Participant Bio:

-Leigh Curyer is the Founder, President and CEO of Nexgen Energy Ltd., a Canadian Uranium exploration and development company (https://www.nexgenenergy.ca/ )

Host Bio:

- Kelly Ogle (host): President and CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (https://www.cgai.ca/staff#Ogle)

What Leigh Curyer is reading:

Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/onward-how-starbucks-fought-for/9781609613822-item.html

Recording Date: 8 February, 2021

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Produced by Seth Scott and Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Thomas Juneau et Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé reçoivent Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, chercheure invitée au CÉRIUM, professeure invitée à l’Université de Montréal et jusqu’à tout récemment, Chef de cabinet du Ministre des Affaires étrangères. Madame Deschamps-Laporte détient un doctorat et une maîtrise de l’Université d’Oxford où elle était boursière Rhodes. Elle est spécialiste du Moyen-Orient, de l’étude des mouvements islamistes et du salafisme. Elle s’intéresse à l’étude de la politique étrangère canadienne, au féminisme au sein des relations internationales ainsi qu'à la politique et aux sociétés du Moyen-Orient. Elle a été chef de cabinet de trois Ministres des Affaires étrangères et anciennement, consultante chez McKinsey. La professeure Deschamps-Laporte discute de son parcours professionnel et académique, du développement ainsi que des défis de la mise en œuvre de la politique étrangère féministe canadienne.

On this episode of The Global Exchange is a panel from our Annual State of Trade Conference held virtually on February 9th, 2021. Sarah Goldfeder speaks to Meredith Lilly, Eric Miller, and John Weekes about President Biden’s trade policies and what Canada should adapt to protect its interests.

This podcast is made possible with the support of the Business Council of Canada, Earnscliffe Strategy Group, and Export Development Canada.

Participants Bio:

Sarah Goldfeder is a Principal at the Earnscliffe Strategy Group in Ottawa, where she provides high-level insight on the inner workings of the U.S. and Canadian governments, including how they work together on important issues. (https://www.cgai.ca/sarah_goldfeder)

Meredith Lilly is an Associate Professor at Carleton University where she holds the Simon Reisman Chair in International Affairs focused on trade policy. (https://www.cgai.ca/meredith_lilly)

Eric Miller is President of Rideau Potomac Strategy Group, a cross-border consultancy that advises clients on government affairs, economics, cybersecurity and geopolitical developments. (https://www.cgai.ca/eric_miller)

John Weekes, an expert in international trade policy and trade agreements, joined Bennett Jones as a senior business advisor in 2010. (https://www.cgai.ca/john_weekes)

Host bio:

Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, https://www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson

What Ms. Goldfeder, Dr. Lilly, Mr. Miller, and Ambassador Weekes are reading:

Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies: A Novel – https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/ayad-akhtar/homeland-elegies/9780316496421/

Jason DeParle, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313176/a-good-provider-is-one-who-leaves-by-jason-deparle/

William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and The Pillage of an Empire – https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-anarchy-9781635573954/

Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company  – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/556683/the-ride-of-a-lifetime-by-robert-iger/9780399592096

Barack Obama, A Promised Land: The Presidential Memoirs, Part 1 – https://obamabook.com

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Recording Date: 9 February 2021.

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, Dave Perry talks to Lorena MacKenzie about the Women in Defence and Security (WiDS) Annual Breakfast. Then, he is joined by Aden Dur-e Aden, the second WiDS-CGAI Fellows, about extreme right organizations.

Go to www.wids.ca to get your tickets for the Breakfast!

Participants Bio:

Lorena MacKenzie is the president of Women in Defence and Security (WiDS) and the Manager, Marketing & Communications  at General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada  

Aden is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of Toronto. Her major fields are International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her PhD research focuses on comparing the recruits and non-recruits within the radical (far-right and Islamist) groups in Canada through a gendered lens. (https://www.cgai.ca/dur_e_aden)

Host Bio:

Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry)

What Aden Dur-e Aden is reading

Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk, https://thinklikeamonkbook.com/

Recording Date: 10 Feb 2020

This podcast is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding. A strategic partner of the federal government’s National Shipbuilding Strategy, providing skilled, well-paying jobs that support Canada’s economic recovery. 

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

In the 42nd episode of Battle Rhythm, Stef and Steve talk about the allegations of sexual misconduct raised against the former Chief of the Defence Staff and the coup in Myanmar. Our feature interview guest is Maj-Gen Craig Aitchison [20:45], Commander of the Canadian Defence Academy. This week’s RnR segment [55:45], where we will provide some levity in these trying times with entertainment reviews and suggestions;

Steve’s RnR picks for the week are:

1.Lupin: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531336/

2. Making of Mandalorian: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12162902/

3. Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman: https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/william-goldman/adventures-in-the-screen-trade/9781455525461/

In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, Dave Perry talks to CGAI Fellow Benjamin Hautecouverture about the evolutions of US-Europe relations since President Trump and how they will move forward with President Biden.

Participants Bio:

Benjamin Hautecouverture is a Senior research fellow for nonproliferation and disarmament issues at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), Paris, France. He is also a founding member as well as a manager of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium since 2010. He used to be a researcher at the Center for arms control and international security (French acronym CESIM) in Paris from 2006 to 2010, where he was editor-in-chief for the Non-Proliferation Monthly. He used to be a lecturer at Science Po Paris and at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. https://www.cgai.ca/benjamin_hautecouverture

Host Bio:

Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry)

What Mr. Hautecouverture is reading

Georges-Henri Soutou, La Guerre Froide de la France, 1941-1990: https://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=2547495&def=Guerre+froide+de+la+France+%3A+1941-1990(La)%2CSOUTOU%2C+GEORGES-HENRI%2C9791021032057

Recording Date: 8 Feb 2020

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On this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson speaks to CGAI Fellows Marius Grinius and James Trottier on the current challenges associated with North Korea’s nuclear development .

Participants Bio:

Marius Grinius joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1979 after serving in the Canadian Army for 12 years. His early overseas postings included Bangkok, NATO/Brussels and Hanoi. Assignments back in Ottawa included desk officer for nuclear arms control, Director for Asia Pacific South and then Director for South East Asia. In 1997 he was posted back to Vietnam as Ambassador. https://www.cgai.ca/marius_grinius

James Trottier is a lawyer and former diplomat who graduated with a law degree (JD) from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and was called to the bar in Toronto.  He worked in a major civil litigation law firm in Toronto before joining the Department of External Affairs. In addition to his JD in law,  he has an LL.M. in International Law (University of Ottawa), a M.A. in Modern History (University of Toronto) and a B.A (University of Manitoba).   https://www.cgai.ca/james_trottier

Host bio:

Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, https://www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson

What Ambassadors Grinius and Trottier are reading:

Guy M. Snodgrass, Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattin, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609833/holding-the-line-by-guy-m-snodgrass/

William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and The Case for Its Renewal, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561709/the-back-channel-by-william-j-burns/

Leonard Cohen, The Flame: Poems & Selections from Notebooks, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/572850/the-flame-by-leonard-cohen/9780771024443

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Recording Date: 21 January 2021.

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In this episode of the Energy Security3 Podcast, Kelly Ogle is joined by CGAI fellow, John Barret, to discuss the role of nuclear energy in Canada’s foreign policy.

 

Participant Bio:

-John Barrett is a CGAI fellow and former President and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Association (https://www.cgai.ca/john_barrett )

 

What John Barrett

The Time of the Magicians: The Decade that Reinvented Philosophy, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/576741/time-of-the-magicians-by-wolfram-eilenberger/9780593211311

Host Bio:

- Kelly Ogle (host):  President and CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (https://www.cgai.ca/staff#Ogle)

Recording Date: 22 January 2021

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Produced by Seth Scott and Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.