This week's news delves into Canada's expanding role in global innovation and security, highlighting a new agreement to share "dark vessel" detection technology with Taiwan, major investments in homegrown AI, and the start of construction on Canada’s first commercial spaceport. Concurrently, we examine escalating international research security concerns, from New Zealand's warnings about foreign espionage and Denmark's tightened screening of foreign collaborations, to the U.S. revoking thousands of student visas and reviewing research grants amidst political influence, underscoring a complex landscape of advancements and threats in the research world.