Halifax Wanderers DND Appreciation Match set for June 4 On Saturday, June 4 at 3 pm, the Halifax Wanderers Football (soccer) Club of the Canadian Premier League will once again be hosting a DND Appreciation Match at the Wanderers Grounds in downtown Halifax when they will take on York United FC. […]
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CDS announces first 2022 General and Flag Officer senior promotions and appointments / Le CEMD annonce les premières nominations et promotions chez les officiers généraux pour 2022
CDS announces first 2022 General and Flag Officer senior promotions and appointments By DND General Wayne Eyre, Chief of the Defence Staff, has announced the first Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) General and Flag Officer senior appointments and promotions for 2022. The CAF’s requirement for General and Flag Officers is driven […]
Padre’s Corner: Rest well
Padre’s Corner: Rest well By Capt (Padre) Graham Ware Prior to becoming a CAF Chaplain, I was a Pastor in a local church. As a Pastor, I both looked forward to, and dreaded the time of Holy Week (culminating with Easter). This period in the Church’s calendar is the core […]
Training for Invictus: Eileen Du Plooy
Training for Invictus: Eileen Du Plooy By Trident Staff Eileen Du Plooy is a former Fitness and Sports Instructor with PSP Halifax, and now works as the Regional Coordinator for Soldier On in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. She’s been using her athletic knowledge and training to support serving and retired […]
HMC ships Goose Bay and Moncton back from West Africa
HMC ships Goose Bay and Moncton back from West Africa By DND, Two Royal Canadian Navy ships returned to their homeport of Halifax on April 15 after a four-month deployment to West Africa on Operation Projection in support of security and stability in the region. Since departing Canada on January […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 — […]