In the news today: Carney at NATO summit, Senate voting on major projects bill

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Carney, NATO allies to debate new spending target NATO leaders are expected to decide today whether to more than double the alliance’s defence spending target. Prime Minister Mark Carney is among the leaders around the table at the annual leaders’ summit in The Hague, where a proposal is being discussed to increase the target to five per cent of annual GDP, up from the current two per cent. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s proposal would break that into two parts. The first 3.5 per…