Canada pledges C$800m in aid, drones for Ukraine as Zelenskyy visits

On a Thursday in Calgary — a city shaped in part by Ukrainian hands — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed what they called a 'hundred-year partnership,' binding two nations whose histories have long been intertwined. Canada pledged C$350 million toward air defenses and drone replenishment, and C$450 million to keep Ukrainian hospitals and homes from going dark this winter. The visit was a reminder that diplomacy, at its most meaningful, is not only about the present crisis but about the long arc of shared identity and mutual obligation.