{"id":31981,"date":"2025-12-28T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31981"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:39:56","slug":"meetings-yesterday-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31981","title":{"rendered":"Meetings yesterday &amp; today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Court-Painter-Carney-Zelenskyy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Court-Painter-Carney-Zelenskyy.jpg 765w, 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class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Halifax on Saturday during a stopover before heading to the U.S. to meet with President Donald Trump for talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e6839ea4302b2809f69c4b20f6c11f6f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#076aab\"><strong> Prime Minister Carney also announced an additional $2.5 billion of economic aid<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Zal-Trump-putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Zal-Trump-putin.jpg 1000w, 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