“CAF – Canadian Armed Forces”

Our country’s largest airbase, CFB Trenton, has lead in its water.

This sprawling base, on the shores of Ontario’s Bay of Quinte between the communities of Brighton and Belleville, is home to 8 Wing, and the hub of Canadian Air Force air-mobility operations in Canada. The 4,500 steadfast men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force posted there ensure our troops can be deployed wherever they are needed, fly humanitarian support across Canada and abroad in times of crisis, and conduct search-and-rescue missions in our vast North.

I thought they solved that issue by adding more trannies?

We have been in a historical turning point in the global order for several years. Certainly now, that reality should be starkly obvious to all.

The rules-based order that arose from the ashes of the Second World War, by which institutions and norms provided guardrails that successfully prevented another bloodletting of a global scale for eight decades, is in its death throes. The final nails are being driven into its coffin by a White House that has offered, in the recent words of American strategist Dr. Eliot Cohen, “aid and comfort to our enemies in increasing regularity.”

These TDS casualties were all happy with the status quo when the USA was footing the bill.

Canada stood proudly among the biggest freeloaders while remaking the CAF into a Transgender Parade Rapid Deployment Force.

Back in the disco era, long before he became one of Canada’s top soldiers, Michel Maisonneuve was an exchange officer with a French regiment, based in Sedan, in the Ardennes.

The sister to his Valcartier-based armoured regiment, it was known, in French, as the 12th Hunters.

In those days — the late ’70s — the French had conscription: citizens were expected to serve a year.

The Canadian Army is about to embark on a wholesale restructuring in the face of growing demands for troops and equipment both overseas and at home, says the country’s top soldier.

A military modernization team is currently studying the problem against the backdrop of a shortage of as many as 5,000 soldiers, Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright told CBC News in a recent interview at the NATO training centre in Adazi, Latvia.

“The army we have now is not the army that we need for the future,” Wright said when asked if he was satisfied with the equipping of the troops on the Western military’s alliance’s deterrence mission in Eastern Europe.

For years, Canada has been under pressure from NATO allies to hit the military alliance’s target of spending at least two per cent of GDP on defence — something experts say cannot be done with the flick of a switch.

Yet that pressure has only grown under the new Trump administration in the U.S.

Military leaders have been warned that Canada’s troops are becoming increasingly overweight and obese, with 72 per cent of armed forces personnel falling into those two categories.

“Obesity prevalence has been slowly increasing for many years,” senior leaders were warned in a series of briefings in June 2024 conducted by officials with Canadian Forces Health Services.