In the spirit of the holiday season, here is a throwback to the SaltWire Holiday Parade of Lights on November 19. Local Defence Team members and their families proudly represented our Defence community during the event which saw thousands of local residents and visitors line the streets of downtown Halifax! […]

The next ship set to be completed as part of the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship program, the future HMCS William Hall, has been launched and is now in the water outside Irving Shipbuilding’s facilities in Halifax. After final work, tests and builders trials, the ship is expected to be […]

On December 6, local Defence Team members and members of the public gathered at Fort Needham Memorial Park for the Halifax Regional Municipality’s 105th Halifax Explosion Memorial Service. The service commemorated the more than 2000 individuals who lost their lives as a result of the tragic explosion on December 6, […]

While members of Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) got ready for their annual charity run, the participants of Ship’s Divers Course 022 were busy honing their diving skills with the unit. Recent tests in the water for the prospective divers included jetty searches and maintenance routines with HMCS Fredericton.

On November 2, grade nine students gathered across CFB Halifax, the greater Formation and 12 Wing Shearwater for Take Our Kids to Work Day – a national day that provides students with a glimpse of the rewarding career paths their parents, guardians, extended family or friends have chosen. Students got […]

In honour of the 53rd anniversary of the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service (RCChS), the chaplain flag was raised at CFB Halifax headquarters and Admiral’s gate on Friday, September 23. Did you know that chaplains have been serving the Canadian military since the Boer War? The RCChS itself dates back to […]

Canada is proposing the Halifax Regional Municipality as host to the North American Regional Office of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA).  DIANA is a new NATO body that will create a network of innovation sites in North America and Europe, coordinated […]

As part of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group’s visit to Halifax, crews of vessels from different countries came together for a series of friendly sporting contests at CFB Halifax. Bravo Zulu to all those who participated to help build camaraderie and relationships between allies!

Members of the defence team joined the wider community in marking Remembrance Day across the Halifax region on November 11, with large ceremonies at the Grand Parade and at the Halifax Memorial in Point Pleasant Park, along with smaller community ceremonies across HRM and throughout Nova Scotia. Maritime Forces Atlantic […]

A group representing the HMCS Kootenay “family” travelled to Union Centre in Pictou County, NS on October 22 to attend a dedication ceremony for the Billy Boudreau Brook. The site has been named in honour of CPO2 William Alfred ‘Billy’ Boudreau, who was born in Pictou County and killed in […]