Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, visited MARLANT Headquarters on April 28 to meet with members of the team. Dr. Strang was presented with a coin by RAdm Brian Santarpia, Commander MARLANT and JTFA, and Formation Chief CPO1 Tom Lizotte, to show gratitude for his role […]
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14 Wing Greenwood wins curling invitational tournament / La 14e Escadre Greenwood remporte un tournoi de curling sur invitation
14 Wing Greenwood wins curling invitational tournament By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff Following a tight final game, the team from 14 Wing Greenwood won 7-6 over CFB Halifax’s #2 team in the curling invitational championship, winning both bragging rights and a special trophy to take back to the squadron. The […]
Defence team, public gather on 77th anniversary of Battle of the Atlantic
Defence team, public gather on 77th anniversary of Battle of the Atlantic By Ryan Melanson, Trident Staff With the Second World War era Corvette HMCS Sackville in the water, flypasts from Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft, and a large group of both military and civilian attendees, a bit of tradition […]
RCAF, RCN mark two years since Stalker 22 tragedy
A small ceremony was held on April 29 at the Stalker 22 Memorial Monument at 12 Wing Shearwater to remember the six RCN and RCAF members who lost their lives on April 29, 2020 when a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter crashed in the Ionian sea while deployed with HMCS Fredericton on […]
Volume 56, Issue 09, May 2, 2022
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Op Reassurance: Strength in Unity / Op Reassurance: L’union fait la force
Op Reassurance: Strength in Unity, By Kamma Frederick, Fitness, Sport, and Recreation Supervisor – Op Reassurance, Latvia On the weekend of February 26 and 27, a team of 22 Canadian and 4 Italian athletes from Operation Reassurance Latvia competed in the first annual NATO Cross Country Ski Championship in Otepaa, […]
When Assiniboine brought word processing to the RCN
When Assiniboine brought word processing to the RCN By Don Sheridan, with CPO1(Ret’d) Bruce Cake, and CPO1 (Ret’d) John Arsenault In this article we are celebrating an innovation in the Royal Canadian Navy that started specifically on HMCS Assiniboine – when the ship’s office trialed a Canadian word processing system […]
Memorial Concert / Concert commémoratif
The Stadacona Band of the Royal Canadian Navy is performing the Battle of the Atlantic Memorial Concert at the Spatz Theatre in Halifax at 7pm, Thursday 5 May 2022. After two years of online performances, the Stadacona Band is proud to bring this annual FREE commemorative event back to live […]
Raising a glass to HMCS Halifax
Raising a glass to HMCS Halifax: Brewer supplies frigate with its own special brew By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff When Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Halifax left Halifax on March 19 to join Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 in northern Europe, the ship’s crew had a little something extra onboard — […]
Halifax Mariners return to the ice
Halifax Mariners return to the ice at Vince Ryan Memorial Hockey Tournament By Capt Dawn Macauley, The last Canadian Armed Forces Women’s Hockey National Championship game was played on March 13, 2020; just as the COVID-19 pandemic was arriving in Canada. This point in history has impacted countless aspects of […]
