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After subways and snowballs, Nebraska football aims to make Pinstripe perfect memoriesDefence Minister Bill Blair on Friday pushed back on U.S. critics of Canada’s defence spending , saying the eight-year plan to reach its NATO commitment was “credible and verifiable” despite reports saying otherwise. Speaking to reporters at the opening of the Halifax International Security Forum, Blair said “nobody has to argue with me” that Canada needs to spend more on defence, and that the federal government was making the necessary investments, but more international and industry collaboration is needed to reach the NATO spending target. “I’ve told (our allies) they are pushing on an open door,” Blair said. “We are going to make those investments. “We know that we need to do more, but it’s (about) getting there in a timely way. It’s going to require cooperation and collaboration with our closest allies, with industry and some really hard work by the Canadian Armed Forces.” Canada is one of just eight NATO members not meeting the alliance’s benchmark of spending at least two per cent of GDP on defence. Its updated defence policy forecasts spending will rise from 1.37 per cent of GDP currently to 1.76 per cent by 2030. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed at July’s NATO summit that Canada’s defence spending will hit two per cent by 2032. Yet the parliamentary budget officer last month said the government’s plan for achieving that is unclear and based on “erroneous” economic projections. The financial watchdog’s report said Canada will have to nearly double its annual military spending to $81.9 billion from current levels to achieve the NATO target. But Blair, who has previously dismissed the PBO’s findings, said Friday the 2032 timeline was “realistic” given how long it will take to deliver on equipment like naval destroyers and F-35 fighter jets. The incoming Donald Trump administration is expected to take a hardline stance on NATO and members’ spending commitments, and will have several allies in the U.S. Congress. Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, who is leading the U.S. delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Alliance meeting in Montreal this weekend, unloaded on Trudeau’s defence policies in an interview with Politico on Friday , using words like “freeloading” and “incredible arrogance” and warning of potential consequences. “You’re being dishonest saying that you’re going to meet a commitment that you don’t,” Turner said. “You are cheating everyone else and that has to be addressed to some extent by everyone else who’s not cheating.” Blair called the comments “unfair” when asked about them in Halifax. “I think we’ve already demonstrated just in the last two years a real commitment to begin the important and necessary work of acquiring new platforms for the Canadian Armed Forces, with planes and ships and submarines and other new technologies, new weapons systems, ammunition,” Blair said. “All of that work is is well underway.” The minister pointed to the Canadian Armed Forces’ “very credible plan to significantly accelerate” recruitment as an example of how Canada is taking its defence commitments seriously. Another was the timeline on acquiring a new submarine fleet, after Blair would only say the government was “exploring” it during April’s unveiling of the defence policy update. “Everybody rolled their eyes and said, you’re just kicking the can down the road,” Blair said. “Two months later, the prime minister announced that we were going to acquire 12 of them. Two months after that, we went into the market with an RFI. “I hope that sends a signal.” At the same time, Blair said more work and collaboration with industry partners and allies is needed to speed up procurement, though he said there were “many opportunities for us to accelerate” the 2032 timeline. He also said Canada shares “a certain frustration” with how long it’s taken to deliver military aid to Ukraine, which is set to be a major topic of discussion at the Halifax forum. Friday saw a notable example of those delays, when Blair announced a new U.S.-built air defence missile system had arrived in Ukraine — nearly two years after Canada purchased it for $406 million. Blair said that was accelerated from the four-to-five-year timeline Canada was first given by its industry partners, before the U.S. government “stepped up” and helped prioritize the procurement. “It still took two years,” Blair said. “I think that is part of the conversations we need to have here with industry, and not just here, but ongoing with how we accelerate production.” Blair has previously testified that production delays held up the missile system Canada ordered. The minister said speeding up production and delivery was more crucial than ever as adversaries and competitors like China rapidly build up their own forces. “We have to keep up, not in order to engage in conflict, but to prevent conflict,” he said. Blair also acknowledged that his message was quite different from his speech at the Halifax forum a year ago, when he underscored the need for Canada to put “resources ... behind our aspirations” when it comes to defence. “I came here last year and said, we need to spend more money, we needed to do more,” he said. “We’ve been working tirelessly over the past 12 months to do just that. “I’ve now got a substantial new budget. I’ve also got commitments from my government and the investments we have to make. And we have what we think is a timeline on when we can get that done.”
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Behind closed doors, President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has become a somewhat fractious and chaotic environment according to a new report. The Washington Post reported Saturday that "new camps have formed" at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida with competing visions for how to prepare for the next four years. The outlet described "shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling" as frequent occurrences between various factions. "As during Trump's first term, competing factions have begun to run roughshod over each other, sometimes kicking up clouds of dust," wrote the Post's Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. READ MORE: Trump rips 6 House Republicans for 'stupidly' failing to pass controversial amendment According to the Post, three different factions have formed — each with their own leaders and strategic goals. 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Carl Gibson, AlterNetMexican teacher uses AI to inspire her students to achieve their dreamsThe United States will provide nearly $US1 billion more in longer-term weapons support to Ukraine, as the Biden administration rushes to spend all the congressionally approved money it has left to bolster Kyiv before Donald Trump takes office. or signup to continue reading US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday the latest package will include more drones and munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, that the US has provided. While these weapons are critically needed now, they will be funded through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which pays for longer-term systems to be put on contract. The weapon systems purchased are often intended to support Ukraine's future military capabilities, not make an immediate difference on the battlefield. The $US988 million ($A1.5 billion) package is on top of an additional $US725 million ($A1.1 billion) in US military assistance, including counter-drone systems and HIMARS munitions, announced Monday that would be drawn from the Pentagon's stockpiles to more quickly get to the front lines. Ukraine is facing an intensified onslaught by Russia, which is now using thousands of North Korean troops to augment its fight to take back the Kursk region. Moscow also has launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile and regularly strikes Kyiv's civilian infrastructure. With questions about whether Trump will maintain military support to Ukraine, the Biden administration has been trying to spend every dollar remaining from a massive foreign aid bill passed earlier this year to put Ukraine in the strongest position possible. "This administration has made its choice. So has a bipartisan coalition in Congress. The next administration must make its own choice," Austin said at an annual gathering of national security officials, defence firms and lawmakers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Trump had a hastily arranged meeting on Saturday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and France's Emmanuel Macron while in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. Macron and other European leaders are trying to persuade Trump to maintain support for Ukraine. There is great fear in Ukraine that Trump could drastically reduce US military aid for the country, which has been defending itself against Russia's full-scale invasion for almost three years and has repeatedly warned that it will lose the war if allies stop delivering military aid. Trump, a longtime admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has criticised US aid for Ukraine and called for bringing a quick end to the war, raising concerns in Ukraine about what terms may be laid out for any future negotiations. Zelensky said the talks at the Élysée Palace - ahead of a ceremony marking the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral - were "good and productive". "President Trump is, as always, resolute. I thank him for that," Zelensky posted on X. "We all want this war to end as soon as possible and in a just way," he added. "Peace through strength is possible." Austin said he was "confident that President Reagan would have stood on the side of Ukraine, American security and human freedom". It was one of Austin's last major speeches as President Joe Biden's defence secretary and a cap to his more than 41 years serving as a soldier and general. 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US pledges nearly $US1 billion in weapons for UkraineDEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather , the territory’s health ministry said. The army denied claims it had entered or set fire to the complex and accused Hamas of using the facility for cover. Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit multiple times over the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in surrounding neighborhoods, according to staff. The ministry said a strike on the hospital a day earlier killed five medical staff. Israel's military said it was conducting operations against Hamas infrastructure and militants in the area and had ordered people out of the hospital, but said it had not entered the complex as of Friday night. It repeated claims that Hamas militants operate inside Kamal Adwan but provided no evidence. Hospital officials have denied that. The Health Ministry said troops forced medical personnel and patients to assemble in the yard and remove their clothes. Some were led to an unknown location, while some patients were sent to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, which was knocked out of operation after an Israel raid this week. Israeli troops during raids frequently carry out mass detentions, stripping men to their underwear for questioning in what the military says is a security measure as they search for Hamas fighters. The Associated Press doesn’t have access to Kamal Adwan, but armed plainclothes members of the Hamas-led police forces have been seen in other hospitals, maintaining security but also controlling access to parts of the facilities. The Health Ministry said Israeli troops also set fires in several parts of Kamal Adwan, including the lab and surgery department. It said 25 patients and 60 health workers remained in the hospital. The account could not be independently confirmed, and attempts to reach hospital staff were unsuccessful. “Fire is ablaze everywhere in the hospital,” an unidentified staff member said in an audio message posted on social media accounts of hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya. The staffer said some evacuated patients had been unhooked from oxygen. “There are currently patients who could die at any moment,” she said. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, denied the accusations. “While IDF troops were not in the hospital, a small fire broke out in an empty building inside the hospital that is under control,” he said Friday night. He said a preliminary investigation found “no connection” between military activity and the fire. The Israeli military heavily restricts the movements of Palestinians in Gaza and has barred foreign journalists from entering the territory throughout the war, making it difficult to verify information. “These actions put the lives of all of these people in even more danger than what they faced before,” U.N. spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay told journalists, and noted colleagues' reports of “significant damage” to the hospital. It should be protected as international law requires, she added. Since October, Israel’s offensive has virtually sealed off the northern Gaza areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and leveled large parts of them. Tens of thousands of Palestinians were forced out but thousands are believed to remain in the area, where Kamal Adwan and two other hospitals are located. Troops raided Kamal Adwan in October, and on Tuesday troops stormed and evacuated the Indonesian Hospital. The area has been cut off from food and other aid for months , raising fears of famine . The United Nations says Israeli troops allowed just four humanitarian deliveries to the area from Dec. 1 to Dec. 23. The Israeli rights group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel this week petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice, seeking a halt to military attacks on Kamal Adwan. It warned that forcibly evacuating the hospital would “abandon thousands of residents in northern Gaza.” Before the latest deaths Thursday, the group documented five other staffers killed by Israeli fire since October. Israel launched its campaign in Gaza vowing to destroy Hamas after the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel in which militants killed around 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. Around 100 Israelis remain captive in Gaza, around a third believed to be dead. Israel’s nearly 15-month-old campaign of bombardment and offensives has devastated the territory’s health sector. A year ago, it carried out raids on hospitals in northern Gaza, including Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and al-Awda Hospital, saying they served as bases for Hamas, though it presented little evidence. Israel’s campaign has killed more than 45,400 Palestinians, more than half women and children, and wounded more than 108,000 others, according to the Health Ministry. Its count does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. More than 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have been driven from their homes, most now sheltering in sprawling tent camps in south and central Gaza. Children and adults, many barefoot, huddled Friday on the cold sand in tents whose plastic and cloth sheets whipped in the wind. Overnight temperatures can dip into the 40s Fahrenheit (below 10 Celsius), and sea spray from the Mediterranean can dampen tents just steps away. "I swear to God, their mother and I cover ourselves with one blanket and we cover (their five children) with three blankets that we got from neighbors. Sea waters drowned everything that was ours,” said Muhammad al-Sous, displaced from Beit Lahiya in the north. The children collect plastic bottles to make fires, and pile under the blankets when their only set of clothes is washed and dried in the wind. At least three babies in Gaza have died from exposure to cold in recent days , doctors there have said, and the Health Ministry said an adult — a nurse who worked at the European Hospital — also died this week. Khaled and Keath reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Narions contributed to this report.
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