NEWS BRIEFS: CANADA
27 November 2015
Lieutenant-General Guy Thibault, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, and Brigadier General H.C.MacKay, Surgeon General, attended the 6th annual Military and Veteran Health Research Forum presented by the Canadian Institute of Military and Veterans Health Research (CIMVHR) in Québec.
21 November 2015
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan yesterday launched the annual Halifax International Security Forum by underscoring the timely importance of bringing together key defence leaders to discuss a number of pressing global security issues.
21 November 2015
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced this week that Canadian Major-General Denis Thompson will continue to serve as Force Commander for the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) for an additional year, until March 2017. He assumed command of the MFO in March 2014.
17 November 2015
Brigadier-General James Irvine assumed command of Joint Task Force-Iraq (JTF-I) from Brigadier-General Lise Bourgon yesterday as part of a regular, previously planned rotation for Operation IMPACT.
16 November 2015
(CBC News)
The Liberal government is inheriting a new study into the "root causes" of terrorism – a study the Harper government ordered last year, despite mocking Justin Trudeau's call for the same basic research.
11 November 2015
The Minister of National Defence, the Chief of the Defence Staff, and the Chief Warrant Officer today issued statements on the occasion of Remembrance Day 2015.
11 November 2015
Students at Canadian Universities have responded in record numbers to the 2016 Unmanned Systems Canada Student UAS Competition. A total of 18 teams from across Canada have registered for the event.
11 November 2015
The Minister of National Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff yesterday issued statements regarding the 2015 Surgeon General Report on Suicide Mortality in the Canadian Armed Forces.
11 November 2015
(CTV)
Canada’s top soldier says a timeline has not yet been set for the promised withdrawal of Canadian troops from the bombing mission against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
9 November 2015
Over the next three months, Canada’s Cold War Museum will host an art exhibit titled "Group 6: The Canadian Forces Artists Program 2012-2013", which opened yesterday in the Bank of Canada Vault.
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