Canada meets NATO target, IOC bans trans athletes, Susan Bonner leaves CBC, and more

For the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, Canada has hit the NATO defence spending target of two percent of GDP. And Prime Minister Mark Carney says it won’t stop there.

And: The International Olympic Committee says women athletes will have to undergo a gene test in order to compete at the games. IOC President Kirsty Coventry says “it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe.”

Also: After more than 40 years, Your World Tonight host Susan Bonner is leaving the CBC. Her remarkable career here included reporting across the country, and around the world. She has spent more than a decade as host of World at Six, now called Your World Tonight. She will be missed, and we wish her well.

Plus: Election reform proposals, NB government plans for a toll to come in from Nova Scotia, and more.