Juno News: Carney Pledges $1 billion to Africa for healthcare
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Canadian PM Mark Carney announced a $1.02 billion pledge to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, with the money rolling out from 2027-2029. The announcement dropped in Johannesburg right before the G20 summit in South Africa. While Canada’s framing it as continued leadership on global health, the move’s getting hammered at home—people are furious about long healthcare wait times, inflation, housing costs, and billions leaving the country while Germany and the UK cut their own contributions and the U.S. stays quiet. Commenters are calling it tone-deaf and straight-up negligent, with many demanding an election and pointing out the billion could’ve been spent fixing Canada’s own broken system.
