March is Nutrition Month By PSP Health Promotion Services, Each year, Nutrition Month is recognized in March. Your Health Promotion Team makes nutrition a top priority, focusing on education, resource development and local initiatives, to further your knowledge on the importance of nutrition and your health. To start off a […]

Combined Task Force 150: The Anatomy of a Drug Bust  By Lt(N) Melissa Kia, CTF 150 Public Affairs Officer The breaking sun languishes off a bleary horizon in the Northern Arabian Sea on a strip of ocean known as the “Hash Highway” as a suspicious vessel plods its way south […]

Pink Shirt Day at CFB Halifax By Elizabeth Sharpe CFB Halifax Public Affairs Intern, In honour of Pink Shirt (Anti-Bullying) Day, CFB Halifax received some awesome photos from our Defence Team members and senior leadership sporting pink shirts, in support of this important day dedicated to kindness, civility and bullying […]

New helicopter trainer ready for action at DCTF Kootenay By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff After months of anticipation, control operators and instructors fired up the new helicopter trainer at the Naval Fleet School (Atlantic) Damage Control school in Purcell’s Cove on March 1, in preparation for an individual helicopter crash […]

Registration open for Navy Bike Ride 2021 By Canadian Armed Forces Sports Are you ready to ride? Following the success of the 2020 Battle of the Atlantic virtual challenge, the Navy Bike Ride is pleased to present the 2021 Harry DeWolf virtual challenge. Organizers are targeting 30,000 cumulative rides – […]

Reshaping Canada’s largest military base, one student at a time By Elizabeth Sharpe, CFB Halifax PA Intern  Over the years, students have become a great asset to many departments across the Government of Canada. Here at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Halifax, the positive contributions of student employees can be seen […]

By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff What started out as a normal work week at the Halifax & Region Military Family Resource Centre changed dramatically recently as people from Pennsylvania began calling, looking for information on getting the COVID-19 vaccine. First one, then two calls came in, and by the end […]

February 28 marked the 30-year anniversary of the end of the Gulf War and the Liberation of Kuwait. In this photo, HMC ships Athabaskan, Protecteur and Terra Nova conduct a replenishment-at-sea while en route to the Persian Gulf in September 1990 on Operation FRICTION, Canada’s contribution to the US-led international […]

HMCS Halifax participates in Norwegian Exercise with SNMG1 By LCdr Mark Fifield, SNMG1 Public Affairs Officer From February 8-19, 2020 Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1), took part in Task Group 21-1 (TG 21-1), an annual maritime exercise conducted by the Royal Norwegian Navy in the waters and fjords off the […]

Navy brothers lean on each other through tough times By Ryan Melanson, Trident Staff For HMCS Toronto, the 2020 Operation REASSURANCE deployment was anything but routine. While still reeling from tragedy that struck the Navy and the wider defence team last spring, the ship left Halifax in July, joining NATO […]