Defence
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Ottawa's NATO Bill Arrives With a Sixty-Three Billion Dollar Deficit
A new Parliamentary Budget Office analysis shows meeting NATO targets will require thirty-three billion dollars in annual cash expenditures over the next decade.
One Hundred Thirty-Seven Hospital Workers Answered the Call as Wainwright Tragedy Unfolded
When a training incident at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright on Oct. 17 left four dead and 39 injured, 137 hospital staff members flooded the local facility.
A Hundred Billion, and the Quiet Turn Toward Europe
Mélanie Joly says the defence industrial strategy is backed by $100 billion over ten years. The submarines are German, the surveillance plane is Swedish, and the minister says a change of administration in Washington wouldn't make the world safer.
The Seventy Per Cent Problem
Ottawa wants seven in ten defence contracts going to Canadian firms. Two in five of the companies that count as Canadian are subsidiaries of American ones, and the definition that decides which is which is still being written.