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Carney’s Defence Speech

By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 13 June 2025 A few days ago Prime Minister Mark Carney made a major announcement about defence. It was a good speech, made by a serious […]

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The NSS at Year 15

By Moderator, 11 June 2025 It seems like a long time ago that the Harper government announced the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) – and indeed it was 15 years […]

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New Minister of National Defence

By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 19 May 2025 David Joseph McGuinty is now the Minister of National Defence. He is a lawyer and has served as the member of Parliament for […]

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Type 26 Construction Journey

By Moderator, 7 May 2025 In case you’re wondering …. An update to the Type 26 program given in the British Parliament indicated that five of the eight planned frigates […]

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HMCS Ville de Quebec to sail with CSG25 

By Blair Shaw, 23 April 2025 The UK is about to embark on its second Indo-Pacific deployment called CSG25. Among the fleet joining the lead ship – the aircraft carrier […]

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Information Innovation

By David Morse, 15 April 2025 A new class of frigates for the French navy FDI (Frégate de defense et d’intervention) brings an interesting and new approach to the asymmetric […]

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The Arctic, Unification of the Inuit – Canada’s Moment

By Peter M. Sanderson, 2 April 2025 1. Arctic Sovereignty Bases. The Inuit (the people) live in four homelands (nunas), map #1 below (Credit: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami via Statistics Canada).                                                            […]

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Articles About Procurement

By Moderator, 24 March 2025 In case you didn’t see them, there were two interesting articles about procurement published last week. One was written by Ian Mack and published by […]

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Solving Personnel Shortages?

By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 March 2025 Personnel shortages have plagued the RCN for years. It’s not just a problem in Canada, the same problem has affected other navies, including […]

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