Last steward standing By 2Lt Daniel McCall, CFS Alert After many decades of managing both of the CFS Alert messes and running the Alert Trading Post, the steward trade is at last departing the isolated northern station to be replaced by PSP staff. This marks the end of an era […]
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HMCS Oriole Change of Command
New CO will sail HMCS Oriole to 2018 Great Lakes Deployment By Ryan Melanson, Trident Staff The Royal Canadian Navy’s oldest commissioned vessel, the tall ship HMCS Oriole, had an exceptionally busy and successful program through 2017. Under the command of LCdr Mike Wills, Oriole made the marathon 16,000 kilometre […]
Naval Security Team on Op REASSURANCE
Naval Security Team safeguards ships in foreign ports By Darlene Blakeley, Senior Editor and Writer, Navy Public Affairs The safety of ships and sailors in foreign ports is top-of-mind for the flexible, scalable and dynamic team that recently deployed from Maritime Forces Pacific in Esquimalt, B.C., to Copenhagen, Denmark. For […]
RCAF Captain named Academic All Canadian
Capt Stephanie Dennis recognized as an Academic All Canadian By Janet Bryson, Senior Communications Manager, Communications and Marketing, Dalhousie University Capt Stephanie Dennis (née Bigelow) a Comox, BC native and second year Dalhousie medical student, has been recognized as an Academic All Canadian by U Sports, the leader of university […]
100 Days of Health
CAF Health and Wellness Challenge By Health Promotion Staff, The Health Promotion Team in Halifax is thrilled to invite the CAF and supporting Defense Team community to be part of something super exciting. We are launching a 2018 Health and Wellness Challenge that is bigger and better than ever…it will […]
Regional Volleyball Champions
CFB Halifax takes both volleyball regional titles By Sara White, The Aurora Managing Editor Volleyball action took over the centre court of 14 Wing Greenwood’s Fitness & Sports Centre March 20 through 23, as the base hosted the Atlantic Regional men’s and women’s volleyball tournament. CFB Halifax made a clean […]
HMCS Vancouver slips for Asia
HMCS Vancouver slips for Asia By Lt(N) Tony Wright, HMCS Vancouver PAO After a long Easter weekend with family and friends, HMCS Vancouver and crew deployed for Operation PROJECTION Indo-Asia Pacific. This is a three-month patrol in the Western Pacific that will be followed by Vancouver’s participation in the 2018 […]
Bermuda’s Royal Naval Dockyard
Royal Naval Dockyard, a Bermuda gem By Cdr (ret’d) Len Canfield, Canadian Naval Memorial Trust Nova Scotians visiting the Royal Naval Dockyard complex in Bermuda will probably be struck by the similarity with HMC Dockyard and Stadacona in Halifax. Not surprising, Nova Scotia and Bermuda share a similar history of […]
Padre’s Corner
“Unless I see, I will not believe” By Capt Innocent Inienwe, Chaplain, TEME, Blog, FMF Cape Scott, CFB Halifax Today a lot of people struggle with believing things without seeing them. This holds true of the saying, “Seeing is believing.” In the scriptures we hear about the Doubting Thomas who […]
Margaret Brooke’s four leaf clover
The story of Margaret Brooke and the four leaf clover By SLt M.X. Déry, MARPAC PA “The story is she was given a four leaf clover, I think by a patient, and Margaret Brooke had it in her big Burberry coat that she grabbed and put on before they abandoned […]
