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In May, Ottawa chose a Swedish surveillance jet for the Arctic over two American rivals. In September, two Swedish CB90 assault boats crossed the Atlantic for the Canadian Armed Forces to test: 40 knots, 18 troops each. On the twenty-seventh of May, at the CANSEC defence trade show in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced…

Churchill, Manitoba, owned by 41 Indigenous and northern communities, has signed an agreement with Rotterdam, which handles 428 million tonnes a year. This summer, grain sailed from Churchill to Europe for the first time in six years. On the twenty-eighth of September, two very different ports signed the same document. One was Rotterdam: Europe’s largest…