NATO Selects Saab’s GlobalEye
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, Secretary General Mark Rutte announced that NATO will begin formal negotiations with Saab regarding the acquisition of up to ten GlobalEye Airborne Early…
New White Uniforms
The first High Collar White Tunics have been delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), marking a significant milestone in bringing this tunic into the official clothing system. Previously, many…
Canada and Australia’s Different Submarine Paths
By John Harvey Canada and Australia are natural comparators: sparsely populated, resource-rich, English-speaking Westminster democracies on continent-sized landmasses, with maritime approaches out of all proportion to their populations, economies of…
Shoulder to Shoulder: Canada’s Indo-Pacific Naval Outreach
Between April 20 and May 8, 2026, Canadian warship HMCS Charlottetown and combat support ship MV Asterix sailed shoulder-to-shoulder with American, Australian, Japanese, and French forces in the waters off…
HMCS Cranbrook
Built at Star Shipyards Ltd., New Westminster, B.C., Cranbrook was commissioned at New Westminster on 12 May 1944. She served out of Esquimalt on Esquimalt and Prince Rupert Force. She…
NATO Priorities and Defense Cooperation
The Canadian Minister of National Defense, has concluded a productive visit to Europe, including engagements in Brussels, Belgium, where he participated in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense Ministers’…
Japan-Canada Defense Ministers Meeting
On June 24, 2026, from 4:20 PM for approximately 60 minutes, Defense Minister Koizumi held a defense ministerial meeting with Canadian Defense Minister McGinty, who was visiting Japan. At the…
Military Justice System Through Royal Assent of Bill C-11
On June 18, 2026, Bill C-11, An Act to amend the National Defense Act and other Acts (Military Justice System Modernization Act) received Royal Assent. Royal Assent marks an important…