Healthy sloppy joes to mark Nutrition Month By PSP Health Promotion Halifax March is Nutrition Month and this year dietitians across Canada are coming together to help ensure your future is healthy. The theme this year is “Unlock the Potential of Food: Ingredients for a Healthier Tomorrow”. The campaign focuses […]

Challenging Traditions: New museum exhibit focuses on women in the RCN  By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff The changing role of women in the Royal Canadian Navy takes centre stage in a new exhibit that opened on March 8th — International Women’s Day — at the Naval Museum of Halifax. While […]

             Local Defence Team, Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD), I write this message to you in my capacity as the Champion of our MARLANT Defence Visible Minorities Advisory Group (DVMAG). Each year on March 21, IDERD is observed globally to acknowledge the ongoing […]

Padre’s Corner: Look up! By Padre (Capt) Brenda Zwicker, Fleet Chaplain There has been a lot of interesting discussion lately around the new Netflix-produced film “Don’t Look Up.” One article I read called it a parable of our distracted society. I found the movie entertaining while I watched, but then […]

The best of both worlds: Life as a naval reservist with HMCS Scotian By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff When CPO1 (ret’d) David Hutt joined the naval reserves in 1975, he thought it would just be for the summer. He ended up staying for 40 years and was coxswain of HMCS […]

Outgoing Asterix CO felt right at home on supply ship By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff A successful replenishment-at-sea (RAS) requires planning, precision and plenty of prior practice. And although there’s always inherent risk involved in the operation, LCdr Amanda Jayne sees a measure of grace and poetry in the maneuver […]

Unique program aids transition to an IT civilian workforce  By Peter Mallett, The Lookout Staff  Attention veterans and currently transitioning military personnel: There’s a free training program designed to prepare you for a career in information technology. Australian-based company With You With Me (WYWM) works with government agencies to combat […]

PSP Level Up Virtual Teen Conference: George St-Pierre looks to inspire military families By Peter Mallett The Lookout Staff, World famous mixed martial arts champion George St-Pierre has come aboard as a presenter in a two-day online inspirational symposium for teenagers of military families. The Ultimate Fighting Champion and motivational […]

CDS Message to the Defence Team regarding the Invasion of Ukraine By General Wayne Eyre, Chief of the Defence Staff For many Canadians, Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine represents the return of history. The return of a time of struggle and great power competition: when larger nations employed force to […]