Veterans Ombud, retired Colonel Nishika Jardine, will be in Nova Scotia the week of March 20 to meet with the Veterans community. The visit includes town halls in Liverpool on March 22, and Dartmouth on March 23, as well as meetings with a broad range of stakeholders in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

With imaginations running wild over the four objects sighted over North American airspace, it is likely that a new definition of UFO and new technology, such as sensors that can detect low profile and low heat signatures, will be required to spot and neutralize future Unauthorized Flying Objects (UFOs).

Speculation ended today when Defence Minister Anita Anand confirmed that four of the Canadian Army’s 82 “combat ready” main battle tanks will be sent to Ukraine “in the coming weeks” to support an expected spring counter-offensive against a renewed push in Russia’s brutal invasion. Training by Canadian Army personnel will take place in an unspecified “third country.” 

Today, Defence Minister Anita Anand and Chief of the Defence Staff, General Wayne Eyre, participated in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

The federal government announced today that its approach to the ongoing challenge of sexual assault in the Canadian Armed Forces will begin at ground level – at Canada’s two military colleges where Defence Minister Anita Anand says there is a “well-documented” entrenched problem.

The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of National Defence, is expected to announce the defence and security elements of the Indo-Pacific Strategy on November 27th. This event will immediately follow a broader in-person announcement by the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs and other ministers.

As announced by Defence Minister Anita Anand, Canada is proposing that Halifax, Nova Scotia, host the North American Regional Office of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic – a new NATO body that will created to facilitate cooperation between military operators and the best and brightest scientific researchers and technology companies to solve critical Allied defence and security problems.

Defence Minister Anita Anand has announced that Quebec-based Logistik Unicorp won a contract to provide operational clothing and footwear to the Canadian Armed Forces. Valued at up to $3.7 billion over 20 years, this contract will support more 3000 jobs and will deliver approximately 1,222 different items of clothing and footwear worn by CAF members during deployments.

The Royal Canadian Navy accepted delivery of the third Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS). Built at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax, Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Max Bernays is the third of six new AOPS to eventually be delivered to the RCN. The ship's home port will be at CFB Esquimalt.