On February 19, I told the CBC that Canada has an interest in helping the people of Cuba cope with a humanitarian disaster threatened by the U.S. blockade.

In the cover of the January 9 Opinions section, the Globe and Mail ran a long article in which I compared what I witnessed in Iraq with the defeat the U.S. is likely to encounter in Venezuela. Sovereignty is a powerful thing.

The Toronto Star hosted a debate between Ben and Louise Blais, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations

Peu après que les Etats Unis ont enlevé Nicolas Maduro de Caracas, j’ai partagé le grand soulagement que ressent la grande majorité des venezueliens au Canada et à travers le monde

after President Trump announced that U.S. would govern Venezuela without an elected government, Ben called for the rump government of the outgoing Socialists and the leader legitimately elected in 2024, Edmundo Gonzalez, to restore democracy to that country

The January 3 U.S. military attack on Venezuela has removed a dictator but not the dictatorship. I explain on CTV News later that same day

The lead editorial in the December 20, 2025 edition of the Globe and Mail cites my assessment that the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement will not survive in its current form as a free trade arrangement between sovereign equals, and predicts that 2026 will bring significant turmoil to Canada’s economy as we are forced to adjust to the post-free trade era.

As the U.S. goes to war against Venezuela, Canadaland interviewed Ben for a podcast on the U.S. bid to assert control over the rest of the hemisphere, articulated in a November 2025 National Security Strategy

In a December 4, 2025, interview on CBCNN, Ben explained that CUSMA as we have known it will come to an end in 2026. There can be no free trade between equals with a U.S. government that does not respect the sovereignty of Canada

Issuing a warning against all air travel in a country is often an immediate prelude to military action. On CBC National News explains that the U.S. threat to invade another country with no international justification would be contrary to the interests of all sovereign nations, including Canada

Ben reacts to the BC Premier’s decision to withdraw anti-tariff ads from U.S. airwaves amid a battle against punitive U.S. tariffs on softwood lumber:

The U.S. descent into authoritarianism has spurred democracy movements in liberal democracies around the world. Canada can link arms with these democracies through an emerging democracy movement of our own.

Ben speaks with the CBC’s Andrew Nichols about the visit of Prime Minister Carney to Washington on October 7 and what the absence of any agreement portends for the trade relationship.

The vacuum left by U.S. withdrawal from democracy promotion has created space for democracy to be defined by activists around the world - in a way that resonates with Canadian democracy in this era of “Elbows Up”

In an interview on CTV news June 30, Ben Rowswell breaks down what a Canadian government concession implies about the negotiations it is leading with the U.S. to remove tariffs

Two years after the Canadian government accused the Indian government of conspiring to kill a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, Prime Minister Carney has invited Narendra Modi to Canada to participate in the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.

Ben Rowswell explains the geopolitical realignment that made this invitation possible, amid the imperative Canada and its fellow liberal democracies have to coordinate how we collectively engage other world powers like India

David Common interviews Ben Rowswell on the stakes of the G7 Summit that runs from June 15 to 17, for the Toronto-area radio program CBC Metro Morning

Ben Rowswell talks with Andrew Nichols about both the substance and the symbolism of sovereignty featured in King Charles’ Speech from the Throne in Canada’s Parliament on May 27, 2025