Can Canada take a leadership role in the newly opening Arctic? Will we face institutional crises that are made even more apparent during this COVID-19 pandemic? Can we grow our population to 100 million and become a superpower rather than an impoverished, failed state facing annexation or vassal status? Can Canada take a leadership role in the newly opening Arctic? Will we face institutional crises that are made even more apparent during this COVID-19 pandemic? Can we grow our population to 100 million and become a superpower rather than an impoverished, failed state facing annexation or vassal status?  Find out these answers and more in this episode, The Canadian Arctic, 100 Million Canadians, and Canada as a Great 21st Century Power: Interview with Irvin Studin. Check out the Study Guide for the program! Click on the top left where it says "Pdf" above the date!  https://multi-hazards.libsyn.com/the-canadian-arctic-100-million-canadians-and-canada-as-a-great-21st-century-power-interview-with-irvin-studin Irvin Studin's Bio Irvin Studin is the President of the Institute for 21st Century Questions (a vision and strategy tank based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with activities around the world) and Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Global Brief magazine, a top-tier international affairs magazine with a heavy global readership. He is also with the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and has been a professor of public policy in leading universities in North America, Europe and Asia. He co-founded Ukraine’s Higher School of Public Administration (Kiev), and sits on the external advisory board of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, Canada's diplomatic academy. His latest book is called "Russia - Strategy, Policy and Administration" (Palgrave-MacMillan). He has several forthcoming books which will deal with strategic issues. Between 2002 and 2006, he worked for the Privy Council Office (Prime Minister’s department) in Ottawa, as well as in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. A past Rhodes Scholar and Governor-General's Gold Medal winner, he was the first ever recruit of the Canadian government’s Recruitment of Policy Leaders programme, and a member of the small team that wrote Canada’s 2004 national security policy. He was the principal author of Australia’s 2006 national counter-terrorism policy while on secondment in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (National Security Division). He consults (Studin Advisory Services Inc.), lectures and teaches around the world in a number of languages, and has written for publications ranging from the Financial Times to Le Monde, Vedomosti, the Globe & Mail, The Australian and the South China Morning Post. In a past life, he was a high-performance athlete - All-Canadian and captain on the York University men's varsity soccer team, two "Blues" with Oxford University's men's football/soccer team, and member of the professional Toronto Lynx Soccer Club (predecessor to Toronto FC).