By James Hutton, 9 December 2025 An Amazon receipt was rejected because it lacked a street address. A Canadian veteran, compensated for service-related prostate cancer that left him severely incontinent, […]
By Blair Shaw, 12 December 2024 A paper written by Lieutenant-Commander Mark McShane, entitled “Navigating the Perfect Storm: An Alternative Crewing and Ship Readiness Model,” details how using a similar […]
By Veterans with Cancer, Inc., 21 November 2024 Attention Veterans: Could Your Cancer Be Service-Related? If you served in a technical trade that involved regular use of chemicals or were […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 August 2024 In the face of severe personnel shortages, the RCN launched the Naval Experience Program (NEP) at the end of March 2023. It aimed […]
By Ted Barnes, 17 March 2024 It was recently noted in the media that the CAF is in a death spiral. While I don’t share that exact sediment there is […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 2 December 2023 So, how bad can it get for the RCN and the CAF as a whole? During the past year, senior officers have been publicly […]
By David Morse, 19 September 2023 A chance encounter with navigation officers during ship visits as part of the recent Halifax Fleet week,brought this old adage back to mind. Apart […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 23 August 2023 Former Vice-Admiral Mark Norman has provided another informed, yet disheartening, assessment of the current state of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). (Mark Norman, “Striking […]
By Roger Cyr, OMM, CD, 18 July 2023 Aid to the civil power is the calling out of military troops by the civil authorities to help maintain or restore public […]
By David Dunlop, 4 April 2023 It appears the RCN is taking the ‘bull by the horns’ to change recruitment requirements for Canadian citizens. The new program is open to […]
By Roger Cyr, OMM, CD There are now culture officers appointed to ships when they deploy to sea, with the role of ensuring that senior members abide with the naval […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 May 2022 The Commander of Canadian Forces Support Group (Ottawa-Gatineau) and Base Commander of Canadian Forces Base Ottawa-Gatineau sent out the following advisory last week […]
By Moderator, 28 April 2022 The Department of National Defence conducted a public opinion poll earlier this year. The results are discouraging. Not only do Canadians know little about the […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 5 November 2021 Madam Justice Louise Arbour has issued some preliminary recommendations as she looks into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. She supports the […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 29 October 2021 The Naval Association of Canada has produced another interesting addition to the Briefing Note series. This one is about naval training and exercises. It […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 14 June 2021 Admiral Craig Baines has just issued an apology for golfing with former Chief of the Defence Staff Jonathan Vance. Lieutenant-General Mike Rouleau, the Vice-Chief […]
CNR Fan, 11 June 2021 One of the skills required from military members, in order to support NATO interoperability with allies and partners, is the ability to recognize other nation’s […]
Brian Bertosa, 27 April 2021 I’ve just read an article published in The Forge, an Australian defence department journal. It’s entitled “JPME with a Purpose: Breaking through the Mythology.” It […]
David Dunlop, 30 March 2021 Here is a feature article just published in the Maritime Engineering Journal (No 96, Spring 2021 issue, pages 15-18) on the CSC Project discussing the Personnel […]
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