What begins with a silent home movie of the Glorious Twelfth unfolds into a reflection on faith, belonging, and the long arc of peace. Through family history and Belfast’s hard-won lessons, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio argues in The Globe and Mail that reconciliation is not betrayal—it is an act of courage.

Writing in the World Commerce Review, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Paul Samson argue that global power increasingly hinges on who controls the ledger—the infrastructure that records and settles financial value. From ancient Sumer to the Medici bankers to SWIFT, ledgers have always been instruments of authority. Today, that contest is being rewritten through […]

Canada is moving away from heavy dependence on the United States by rebuilding domestic defence production and helping create a new multinational “defence bank” meant to fund long term military capacity across democratic allies. Writing in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Jessica M. Lomas analyze this shift in Canadian defence […]

In this op-ed, Laurence Mussio reflects on the life of his father, an Italian immigrant who worked as a boilermaker and believed deeply in the postwar promise of Canada: that hard work would build lasting institutions and a better future for later generations. The author argues that this intergenerational bargain has broken down. Canada, he […]

Writing in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Jessica M. Lomas show how the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is not primarily military — it is an insurance driven shutdown of global maritime trade. War risk insurers withdrew coverage so quickly after the first U.S.–Israeli strikes that the strait effectively […]

In the fourth and final installment of the Futures @ Risk series published in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Cosimo Pacciani use two parallel maritime catastrophes, one in 1816 and one in 2012, to argue that many great disasters are caused not by unknown risks, but by known dangers that […]

In this third “Futures @ Risk” essay, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Cosimo Pacciani use art and history to argue that modern society is governed by “Ghost Intelligence”: fast, automated digital systems that operate without the institutional memory needed to understand their physical foundations. While economies have optimized for algorithms, finance, and cloud computing, […]

Writing in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio recalls a childhood memory of seeing La Traviata in Sarnia and observes how opera can reveal deeper truths about society. While preparing to attend the Canadian Opera Company’s performance of Rigoletto in Toronto, Dr. Mussio notes that Rigoletto actually offers a powerful metaphor for Canada’s […]

In their second “Futures @ Risk” essay in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Cosimo Pacciani note the existence of a “strategic amnesia” which allows institutions to document dangers without acting on them. They argue that while disasters often show a recurring pattern, knowledge becomes fragmented across bureaucratic silos, no one […]

Dr. Laurence B. Mussio writes in The Globe and Mail that Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a fundamental challenge: translating long-term economic vision into real projects within a federal system known for slow execution. Government machinery is structurally resistant to rapid change, and political actors are more skilled at short-term tactics than delivering complex projects. […]