Politics

Plan makes the Arctic a focus for armed forces

Canada is also reviewing its decision to buy up to 88 F35 fighter jets from the United States

Two nations' armed forces are closely entwined

Government plans to direct 70 percent of military spending to domestic companies

NORAD is led jointly by American and Canadian commanders

Last June Canada poured 9.3 billion Canadian dollars into its military to meet NATO's minimum spending level of 2 percent of gross domestic product

Carney promised to raise Canada's military spending to levels not seen since the Korean War

European nations have begun to question the reliability of the United States as an ally

President Trump has made repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st American state

Carney said there has been a permanent rupture in the world order

New defense industry strategy is to be announced this week

Canada plans to shift reliance on American companies to Canadian military suppliers

Relations between longstanding allies are deteriorating

Alabali Radovan talked about efforts to better help impoverished countries at time when Trump administration cut back international aid sharply

Rubio called widespread immigration a crisis for continent urged Europeans to change course

Challenges do not know borders like climate crisis hunger poverty social injustice more authoritarians than democracies exist

Germany's experience shows migration is strength not weakness

Countries across Europe have struggled with questions of migration culture and heritage in recent years

Share of Muslims across Europe has ticked up to about 6 percent in 2020 according to Pew after decade-long influx of migrants

Obama said heroic sustained behavior in subzero weather by ordinary people is what should give us hope