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Pilot project gives a chance for women to experience a military career
Being a soldier, sailor, or in the air force, has seldom been thought of as a career for women. But the military is so much more than carrying a gun and facing the enemy, (although now that too is a...
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Canadian advisors in Iraq pause, hospital stays on
It’ll be slightly smaller, but the Liberal government announced that the Canadian combat hospital in Iraq will stay on. On the other hand, the approximately 200 Canadian Forces Special Operations...
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Veteran’s Week: hundreds of ceremonies to honour the sacrifices of fallen...
Hundreds of ceremonies and events are taking place across Canada during Veterans’ Week, from November 5 to 11, to honour the sacrifices of soldiers and recognize their achievements. Read RCI reports...
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Update: impersonating military officer
He looked every bit the part- to the non-military eye, of a wellturned out and decorated sergeant in the Canadian Forces.. Last year in the nation’s capital on the solemn occasion of Remembrance Day,...
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History: July 25th 2006 ”My God they’ve killed Wolf!
“Wolf” was Canadian Forces Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener. On July 25th, 2006 the 44-year-old Canadian soldier and three other peacekeepers from Austria, China, and Finland, were in an underground...
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Realistic film thriller “Hyena Road”-Canada in Afghanistan: Paul Gross
Canada’s history is as exciting as any in the world. Trouble is, it doesn’t get told very often. Canadian military history suffers the same fate. A new action feature film is helping to change that. As...
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History: Oct.13, 1970-How far would you go? Just watch me.
“Just watch me” have become three of the most famous words in Canadian political history. Uttered by Canada’s then Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, it also marked the beginning of the end of the...
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Memorial ceremony for murdered Canadian soldiers
A special memorial service will be held in the national capital, Ottawa, tomorrow Thursday October 22, to commemorate two Canadian Forces soldiers. The two were not killed in combat, nor in some...
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The LINK Online Sat.13.,2016
your hosts, Lynn, Levon, Marc Listen Royal Canadian Air Force members of Air Task Force-Iraq and several members of the coalition participate in the SHAMAL SERIALS, a combat search and rescue exercise...
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No end in sight to battle against ISIS
Whether you call is ISIS, ISIL, or DAESH, Canada’s top military officer says the battle isn’t over, and the end is not in sight. Gen. Jonathan Vance, Chief of Defence Staff, spoke this week in an...
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History, May 25, 2000 Canada’s unknown soldier comes home
There are thousands of young soldiers buried in Europe whose identities have been lost. These are the unknown soldiers. The Canadian section of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records show that...
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Hot computer parts, National Defence fraud
A 33-year-old civilian employee of Canada’s Defence Department has been has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and breach of trust. Andrew Heggaton worked for the Canadian Forces Cryto Support Unit...
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Canada’s biggest battle since WWII and Korea
It was in Afghanistan in 2006, (video interview below) A new book by Major-General David Fraser talks of that battle in his book , Operation Medusa Operation Medusa: The furious battle that saved...
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Canada’s military and legalised cannabis
With the coming legalisation of recreational use of cannabis, Canada’s military has been working to develop a policy to deal with the situation. A draught policy has just been released by the...
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On guard at the top of the world
It is the most northerly continuously occupied place in the world. At any given moment, roughly 75 personnel of the Canadian Forces and some civilian contractors, live at Canadian Forces Station Alert,...
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Afghanistan memorial to fallen soldiers to tour Canada
The memorial to Canada’s casualties was originally located in Kandahar at the cenotaph on the military airfield. It has since been moved to Ottawa and re-assembled where it was unveiled in the Hall of...
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September 10: it’s WAR for Canada
Everyone hoped it did not come to this But, after the obvious failure of the Munich agreement, and Germany’s invasion of Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on September 3rd. Workman John Hawkins...
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Alberta ranchers say elk herd out of control
Ranchers in the southern portion of the western province of Alberta say a herd of wild elk on a military base has grown too big and is damaging their grazing land. CFB Suffield property comprises some...
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Missed deadlines, cost overruns: Canada well behind in re-equipping military
Canada is now many years behind in several programmes to re-equip its army, navy and air force. Canada’s procurement process is complicated, involving different government agencies, often with...
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Military monuments to honour Canada’s Afghan war effort
Across Canada many of the cenotaphs marking the fallen veterans of wars and conflict. They and other locations of significance, perhaps armouries or Royal Canadian Legion branches, or even city parks...
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