The decision by the Trump administration to “reassess” the value of the Second World War-era Permanent Joint Board of Defence (PJBD) points to a confusion of ideas.
In his January speech in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney claimed that “hegemons (like the U.S.) cannot continually monetize their relationships,” as he announced a plan to double defence spending and partner with the European Union to diversify procurement.
The Liberal government is nominating Canada’s top military commander to be the next chair of the NATO military committee when the post becomes vacant next year.
Defence Minister David McGuinty announced the candidacy of Gen. Jennie Carignan on Wednesday and said she’ll continue in her current role until next year.
An election for the post will be held in September.
A golden parachute jump?
Surveys touted by federal officials as evidence of success for Veterans Affairs Canada’s controversial rehabilitation program excluded hundreds of veterans whose conditions worsened or failed to improve, records obtained by the Toronto Star show.
The records, obtained through an access-to-information request, cast doubt on officials’ repeated claims that the vast majority of veterans improve under the program.
The military reprimanded soldiers after they raised concerns about an order to monitor Canadians’ online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, CBC News has learned.
But the military’s top lawyer later warned of risks associated with this kind of monitoring, and a review found it violated the rules, according to internal documents viewed by CBC News.
In March 2020, the Canadian Armed Forces tasked a team with creating anonymous social media accounts to comb the internet and produce daily reports for military leaders that included the status of COVID-19 in Canada, as well as the political discourse and any misinformation surrounding the pandemic.
I hope the officers who authorized this travesty have been rooted out but you just know they’re the DEI NAZIS.
Under the Liberals every Canadian institution is being weaponized against citizens, from CBC, the CAF and the legal system.
We are not a free country.
Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the head of the Royal Canadian Navy, is being promoted to second-in-command of the Canadian Armed Forces.
The Department of National Defence confirms Topshee is replacing the retiring Lt.-Gen. Stephen Kelsey as vice-chief of the defence staff.
Rear Admiral Dan Charlebois is being promoted to the rank of vice-admiral and will assume command of the Navy.
Not Gay? That can’t last.
The Defence department will need more money to hire additional public servants and military personnel to handle the influx of 300,000 Canadians into a new mobilization force, according to federal government documents.
The mobilization plan now being developed is an initiative being pushed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan.
Canada’s proposed Afghanistan war memorial is having trouble connecting with the people it’s designed to honour: The Canadians who fought in the 12-year war.
Ground was officially broken on the future site of the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan in Lebreton Flats, near Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum, last Monday. But some vets felt overlooked in a ceremony that focused on the project and not the onetime warriors, and showcased an Indigenous-inspired “Medicine Wheel” design.
Canada’s government is importing foreign soldiers.
Not just into the ranks… into the officer corps.
A government that fears its own people wants soldiers with no roots here, no shared history, no shared culture – and no hesitation when ordered to use force against Canadians. https://t.co/2F8J7PLQJO
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) May 10, 2026
The following BBC piece reads like a CAF PR Handout
On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation to move ahead with Arbour’s key recommendation for the country’s military.
The bill before parliament would put into law Arbour’s 2022 recommendation to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences, leaving that to civilian authorities instead.
The Liberals voted on Tuesday to drop a Conservative amendment to the bill that would have given victims of sexual offences the right to choose whether their cases are tried by the military or civilian judicial system.
The federal government quietly transferred more than $3 million away from a homelessness program for veterans after officials claimed they could not find enough former military members eligible to receive the funding.
Blacklock’s Reporter says internal records obtained through Access to Information show Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department moved the money while warning the decision could spark backlash from veterans groups and housing advocates.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is shuttering a trouble-plagued Arctic naval facility, two government sources say – a project from the Stephen Harper era that was originally conceived as a major demonstration of Canadian sovereignty in the North.
The Nanisivik Naval Facility on northern Baffin Island was first promised in 2007 by the Harper government, but cost-cutting later resulted in the project being downgraded to a summer filling station for naval ships.
It ultimately never began operations, hobbled by delays, cost increases and serious corrosion on the deepwater port’s jetty where ships are meant to tie up.
Diversity Over Merit: The CAF’s Deliberate Displacement of Qualified White Canadian Men
Canada is like Carney – a Euroweenie.
The Canadian military has quietly started deploying counter-drone systems around its major ports and air bases as it grapples with both the technology and the legalities of shooting down uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), CBC News has learned.
The idea is to prevent the kind of grey-zone warfare incidents that have recently paralyzed parts of northern Europe, and to avert the kinds of surprise attacks which have characterized the war between Russia and Ukraine.
OTTAWA — Achieving Canada’s long-term goal for defence spending would add $63 billion to the federal budget deficit by 2035 — almost double this year’s projected shortfall, Parliament’s budget watchdog says, suggesting the military rearmament drive will add pressure to the government’s currently “sustainable” fiscal blueprint.
The estimate was included in a series of reports published Monday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan that highlight a lack of detail on major initiatives following the Liberal government’s spring economic update last week. While the PBO concluded that current and growing debt levels are sustainable in the long term, the government hasn’t yet included all of the promised cash for defence in its spending projections, according to one of Monday’s reports.
The federal government officially broke ground Monday in Ottawa on a national memorial to the sacrifice of Canadians during more than a dozen years of war in Afghanistan.
The monument, which has a controversial design history, will be located on LeBreton Flats in the national capital, near the Canadian War Museum.
It is intended to recognize the contributions of those who served in Afghanistan and those who supported them.
