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NATO's secretary general is downplaying the threat of a trade war between the United States and Canada — two founding...
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NATO's secretary general is downplaying the threat of a trade war between the United States and Canada — two founding...
NATO says it wants its members to develop national plans to bolster the capacity of their individual defence industry sectors...
'I wonder if they should have just gone to Canadian Tire,' says defence expert. Despite the defence department spending more...
Despite facing heavy pressure to ramp up military spending, the Department of National Defence (DND) has slow-rolled one of the...
Ukraine is free to use Canadian-donated tanks and armoured vehicles inside Russia, the Department of National Defence said Thursday. The...
The Liberal government's recent internal budget cutting exercise at the Department of National Defence (DND) has deprived the army's system...
The cost to build the navy's often-delayed, long-anticipated supply ships has shot up once again — this time by almost...
The Pentagon has released an updated Arctic strategy that warns of low-level Russian "destabilizing" activities in the Far North aimed...
The Department of National Defence is actively considering whether to retire some older ships, planes and other items of equipment...
Reaching NATO's defence spending benchmark isn't about showing up at your local military trade show with a credit card and...
Canada plans to commit an additional $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine this year, the federal government said on...
The United States, Canada and Finland have entered into a trilateral pact to build icebreakers for the Arctic region, the...
Canada definitely plans to move forward with the purchase of new submarines, the federal government announced on the margins of...
Representatives of NATO nations gathered in Washington Tuesday for a landmark anniversary leaders' summit, complete with a musical performance that...
Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan has been named the next chief of the defence staff, CBC News and Radio-Canada have learned —...
The country's top military commander says contingency evacuation plans have been drawn up to extract roughly 20,000 Canadians from Lebanon...
Canada, Germany and Norway are discussing the possibility of a trilateral defence and security partnership covering the North Atlantic and...
The cabinet minister in charge of the federal treasury says it doesn't make sense to pour vast amounts of money...
One of the country's leading business voices is warning that Canada faces "diplomatic isolation" if it's not prepared to deliver...
On so many different levels, the gathering of western leaders in Normandy today is steeped in symbolism as the nations...
There will be money set aside in today's federal budget for the Department of National Defence (DND) — much of...
With absolutely no exceptions, every defence policy presented by the Canadian government over the past five decades has presented a...
As the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine arrives, the Russian Army is showing a remarkable capacity to...
Canada has signalled it's prepared to get behind a Czech Republic initiative to ship tens of thousands of artillery shells...
In the fall of 2022, a little more than six months into the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, two of...
Canada is cutting another cheque for $60 million to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16, Defence Minister Bill...
We have been warned — over and over again lately — that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an inflection point...
Air force technicians are being forced to perform more frequent inspections of Canada's trouble-prone CH-148 Cyclone helicopters after the U.S...
In Estonia, they're talking about building more public bomb shelters and making them mandatory in all newly constructed homes. In...
The Department of National Defence (DND) has revised its estimate of the lifetime cost of owning and operating the air...
A significant, even far-reaching event would have slipped almost silently under the radar in Ottawa this week, had it not...
The lifetime cost of buying, owning and operating the air force's troubled CH-148 Cyclones is now expected to top $14.8...
The air force is worried about keeping the aging weapons systems aboard its CH-148 Cyclones operational into the future, according...
The Department of National Defence (DND) says it's taking steps to improve training for staff at the military's sexual misconduct...
The former soldier who blew the whistle on alleged torture videos involving Iraqi security forces who were trained by Canadian...
Few outside journalists have been able to enter Gaza, but developments in satellite technology over the past decade have made...
"War," said British philosopher, mathematician and pacifist Bertrand Russell, "does not determine who is right — only who is left."...
Canada has more at stake than meets the eye in the long, drawn-out geopolitical drama over Sweden's bid to join...
After more than two decades of debate, discussion and policy dissection, Canada's air force finally has the green light to...
Something's gotta give. That's the message the Canadian military's top operations commander delivers now every time he meets with federal...
Canada not only trained suspected Iraqi war criminals in 2018, it distributed western-made weapons and protective equipment to them —...
Canada's air force will have to wait a few extra years to get the armed drones it has been promised...
The country's military ombudsman says efforts by the Department of National Defence (DND) to get care and treatment for former...
A leading NATO official and Canada's top military commander have both warned allies within the past week that their ammunition...
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