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Foreign Policy

Forty years ago, the United Kingdom's then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher, left, and Ireland's Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald signed the Anglo‑Irish Agreement at Hillsborough Castle, the British royal family’s residence in Northern Ireland. Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikimedia
There appears to be some wiggle room for Canada to back out of the full program to buy American jets to replace Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18 Hornets, writes Scott Taylor. DND photograph by Sgt. Norm McLean
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pictured in Ottawa in 2023. The agents of principled foreign policy—including Canada, the European Union, its member countries, Japan, Taiwan and others—need to be vocal now to set the standard of what a credible armistice should look like, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Former Liberal MP John McKay says military calculations may not be the most important arbitrator for picking Canada's next fighter jet. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Mark Carney
Instead of acknowledging the moral imperative of reducing global inequality, the government has chosen to further cut an already paltry foreign aid budget by $2.7-billion over the next four years. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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