NEWS BRIEFS: CANADA
30 June 2016
The Royal Canadian Navy will participate in Canada Day celebrations throughout the country and overseas on July 1, 2016. Here are some of the events.
29 June 2016
Approximately 100 Canadian Armed Forces personnel and DND civilian members have completed Operation NEVUS 2016 – the performance of essential preventive and corrective maintenance on the High Arctic Data Communications System in and around Canadian Forces Station Alert, Nunavut, located on Ellesmere Island, from June 1 to 28, 2016.
29 June 2016
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Whitehorse departed its home port of Esquimalt yesterday to conduct maritime security patrols along Canada’s Pacific coast throughout the month of July.
27 June 2016
The American Military Partner Association, the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender military families, has praised the news that the Pentagon is expected to make history on July 1st by announcing the much anticipated end to the military's ban on open service by transgender people.
27 June 2016
Rear-Admiral Scott Bishop assumed the role of Commander Canadian Forces Intelligence Command and Chief of Defence Intelligence last week from Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk. The change of command ceremony was held at the Cartier Square Drill Hall and was presided over by General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff.
24 June 2016
(National Newswatch)
The family of a decorated 94-year-old veteran who has been fighting for a bed at the federally-funded Camp Hill Veteran's Memorial hospital in Halifax says he is getting his wish.
21 June 2016
The #MakeFrederictonFirst campaign is inviting everyone to the official unveiling of Canada's first Memorial LAV at 2 pm on Wednesday, 22 June at the Oromocto cenotaph in New Brunswick, followed by a reception at the Hazen Centre.
3 June 2016
Operation NEVUS 2016 will take place in and around Canadian Forces Station Alert, Nunavut, from June 1 to 30, 2016.
3 June 2016
Lieutenant-General Marquis Hainse, Commander of the Canadian Army, hosted his counterpart, General Eduardo Villas Bôas of the Brazilian Army, in Kingston, Ottawa, and Québec City from May 29 to June 1, 2016.
1 June 2016
The Canadian Armed Forces will participate in Exercise Tradewinds 16, a United States-led multinational and interagency maritime interdiction, disaster response, and ground security exercise taking place in the Caribbean from June 5th to 28th.
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