Training for the fight

Training for the fight

by Chris Thatcher   Wainwright still looked like Wainwright, albeit with the conspicuous haze and smell of smoke from distant wildfires burning elsewhere in the province. But for the participants of Exercise Maple Resolve, the sprawling training area in eastern...
Blackjack cleared for takeoff to Latvia

Blackjack cleared for takeoff to Latvia

by Ian Coutts   Latvia if necessary but not necessarily Latvia. That, to borrow from William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s famously waffling prime minister, is the situation that 129 Battery, home of the Army’s CU -172 uncrewed aerial system (UAS), finds itself...

General (Ret’d) Rick Hillier joins KWESST board

December 6, 2023 – General (Ret’d) Rick Hillier has joined the Board of Directors of KWESST Micro Systems and will chair the company’s Strategic Planning Committee, following the retirement of Jeff McLeod. General Hillier previously served as international...
Training the C22 trainers

Training the C22 trainers

by Ken Pole   Considering firearms controls and setting aside the law enforcement community, the first time most Canadians encounter pistols is likely when they join the military. The Army is the most common vector since its approximately 44,000 Regular and...