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Canada Gets a Jet Program Seat, Bank Loyalty Gets Wobbly.
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Canada Gets a Jet Program Seat
Canada has become the first observer in the U.K., Italy, and Japan's program to build a sixth-generation stealth fighter by 2035. Observer status gives Ottawa access to classified talks, but no decision-making role yet.
CBC says the move lets Canada study whether its military and aerospace companies can join the Global Combat Air Programme later. The air force is also looking at Arctic testing, which is a very Canadian way to ask whether the new gear would be able to survive the part where everything freezes.
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Bank Loyalty Gets Wobbly
More Canadians are looking at their bank and asking whether decades of loyalty still deserve automatic renewal. MoneySense says 22 per cent of respondents in Environics' 2026 Canadian Financial Switching study moved to a different bank in the past 12 months.
The article runs through the process of breaking up with a bank. Compare fees, savings rates, ATM access, app quality, cybersecurity, and Canada Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage. Then move payroll, pension deposits, CRA payments, tax benefits, and pre-authorized bills in stages.
The last part is maybe a little trickier from abroad. A Canadian account can become the plumbing for pensions, rental income, tax refunds, brokerage transfers, and the occasional oh-right-I-still-have-that subscription. Switching cleanly obviously beats switching fast.
Read more: MoneySense / CP24