Mark Carney Says Canada Will Negotiate With Saab To Buy Surveillance Aircraft

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the federal government is entering into contract negotiations with Saab to buy a fleet of surveillance aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Carney said the Air Force needs the jets to monitor new threats such as hypersonic missiles, and the federal government has previously said it’s in the market for six radar aircraft to help protect Canada against threats.

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The iPolitics brief also reported that Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault is leaving federal politics, telling reporters, "After almost seven years in this wonderful challenging place, it’s time for me to move on."

In the same brief, it noted that the Quebec MP quit Carney’s cabinet last year after the announcement of Ottawa’s energy deal with Alberta, which included a memorandum of understanding to work toward the approval of a new bitumen pipeline.

Internationally, protests against immigration enforcement at a facility where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike erupted in fresh violence on Tuesday night as federal officers sprayed chemicals and charged demonstrators outside the jail.

The brief said that at one point on Tuesday evening, a protester who threw something at ICE officers was chased by dozens of officials, Tased and then carried into the jail.

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It also reported that the Newark-based ICE facility is operated by Geo Group, described as one of the biggest.

The iPolitics brief framed the unrest as erupting after a day of relative quiet, following earlier hours when masked and armored demonstrators were involved.

AML Intelligence reported that IKON Midstream, a Houston-based petroleum trader whose offices were raided last month by U.S. authorities, is under investigation in Mexico in connection with fuel smuggling.

“Financial Crime,US A member of the Mexican Navy and a sniffer dog patrol the Port of Tampico on May 28, 2025”

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The investigation, according to three Mexican security sources and four Mexican government security documents, is tied to maritime shipments of petroleum products brought to Mexico from the U.S. and Canada in an alleged scheme to evade a hefty tax due on these imports.

The same AML Intelligence item also described OLAF’s role in supporting an operation code-named Coal of the Alps, which uncovered a cross-border scheme involving systemic circumvention of EU’s waste legislation.

It further said the case exposed a sophisticated criminal network active in Italy, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Serbia and Switzerland, led by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Trento and coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate.