Ian Austen
Canada Correspondent at The New York Times
Canada correspondent for The New York Times, also reporting on cycling from time to time [email protected]
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Ian Austen
OTTAWA, Ontario — At the end of World War II, Canada boasted one of the world’s largest navies, with 95,000 uniformed members and 434 ships. The current Royal Canadian Navy is far less impressive — about 11,500 members and 40 vessels. Only one of its four diesel submarines, which were bought secondhand from Britain in the 1990s, is operational. And Canada’s armed forces as a whole are about 16,000 people short of an approved head count of 101,500, including reserves.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Ian Austen
OTTAWA — Declaring that Canada is too dependent on the United States for its defense, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday committed to having his country meet NATO’s spending target this year, seven years ahead of schedule. President Trump and leaders of other allied nations have long criticized Canada for consistently falling well short of NATO’s goal of a military budget equal to 2 percent of each member’s gross domestic product.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Ian Austen
13 hours agoANALYSIS: Should Canada buy the Hudson’s Bay Company’s royal charter? After three-and-a-half centuries, the Hudson’s Bay Company as we knew it is history. So are its thousands of artifacts, principally the royal charter …23 hours agoThe bill comes due for Arctic sovereigntyAll too often, Canada has been happy to assert Arctic sovereignty on the cheap. But the bill for our historical stinginess has come due, and Ottawa should pay it as smartly and as quickly as possible.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Ian Austen
5 hours agoTrump and Xi agree to new in-person meeting after phone call amid trade tensionsThe president had recently aired his frustrations about the state of talks with China. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call Thursday amid ongoing tensions between the two superpowers — with a new in-person meeting planned soon.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Ian Austen
Driven in part by a steep drop in auto shipments to the United States after President Trump imposed steep tariffs, Canada posted a record trade deficit of 7.1 billion Canadian dollars, about $5.2 billion, in April. Exports to the United States, Canada's largest market, were hard hit after the president began his trade war with Canada, declining by 15.7 percent since March, according to data by Statistics Canada, the national census and economic data agency, released on Thursday.
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Near Colchester, @EssexCountyON just over a week ago along the Lake Erie shoreline. (Chamonix 57N-1, 300mm f9 Nikkor M, @KodakProFilmBiz Ektar 100 pushed one stop) https://t.co/AsVYaRGBgr
Baysville, Ontario, August. After I made the exposure, the driver of the Jeep drove off with the pump pistol still in the filler. A bit of gas spilled and there was much shouting. (Crown Graphic, 135mm f4.7 Xenar, Kodak TXP 320) https://t.co/paMPBPXBJR
Continuing with Canada's payphones. Madoc, Ontario on Highway 7 https://t.co/n0hHGJNpjW