Unpublished Newswire

Canada’s top sailor is so fed up with the dearth of Cyclone helicopters available to fly off this country’s warships, he’ll replace them with drones if he must. The fleet of 26 CH-148 helicopters was grounded for most of last month due to spare parts problems. And, as of Thursday, only three of the choppers were available to fly off the country’s warships as the problems persist. “Am I satisfied? No, not at all,” Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee said in Halifax on Thursday. Why Canadian military's Cyclone helicopters were grounded for 27 days in May Deadly Cyclone crash caused by '...

M ark Carney tried awfully hard to Trump-proof the G7 summit. Gone were the mentions of climate change, in were discussions of migration and energy. When the president began rambling about the need to bring Vladimir Putin back into the G7 fold, Carney hurried out the assembled media and pushed the conversation to trade. He opted against having a single joint communiqué, the kind Trump balked at, at the summit in Quebec seven years prior, instead opting for a series of issue-specific statements that Trump could get behind. The whole gang of world leaders tiptoed around the mercurial...