Defence focus in budget signals turning point, but some defence experts wary about lack of detail
Defence spending promises in the 2025 budget are ‘seizing the moment,’ but lack previous specificity, says Conference of Defence Associations Institute director of research Kevin Budning.
Chief of defence staff in full retreat
To try and deny or diminish your own comments once they have been ridiculed in public is not good leadership.
Is our military ready to be a half a million strong?
Before looking to enlist hundreds of thousands more soldiers, the CAF needs to start taking proper care of those already in uniform.
The CAF’s emotional apology for racism
The general consensus at the Oct. 30 ceremony was that this emotional apology is a starting point, not the closure of an historical chapter.
Room for improvement in the CAF? Yeah, I’ll say
There is a time-honoured tradition when it comes to Canada’s defence procurement: seeing is believing.
‘Complex, blow-your-brains-out expensive, and extraordinarily technical’: MPs urged to study Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ as feds say they’re in talks with U.S.
‘What is desperately needed is a non-partisan statement in Parliament that all parties recognize the need to defend Canada as a core national interest,’ says Andrea Charron, director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
Shortlisted shipbuilders say Poland’s submarine pick won’t affect delivery on Canadian procurement
Poland is weighing buying submarines from a collection of offers including from the two shipbuilders shortlisted by Canada.
Is Canada at risk of being complicit in U.S. military crimes?
The recent U.S. navy attacks on shipping off the coast of Venezuela have raised concerns at DND headquarters in Ottawa.
Canada’s submarine purchase has new ‘sense of urgency’ with possible selection by end of year, says German envoy
The clock is ticking to replace the aging Victoria-class submarines before they are taken out of the water in the 2030s, leaving the Canadian Navy without a submarine capability.
Hegseth’s attack on rules of engagement could limit Canadian operations with ‘lawless’ U.S. military, says former House Defence Committee chair McKay
Pete Hegseth described past American rules of engagement as ‘politically correct and overbearing,’ and has indicated that rules of war will be loosened to allow U.S. soldiers to ‘intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.’
