Canadian Armed Forces

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has thrown cold water on suggestions the Liberal government wants to sign onto continental ballistic missile defence, or that it might send troops back into Afghanistan.

The soldiers will have no role in security matters and will not participate in law−enforcement tasks. All but a few will return to their home base once the site is completed.

Today, July 21, 2017, marks two weeks since raging wildfires that have displaced thousands of people British Columbia forced the province to call a state of emergency.

A group that helps military veterans find jobs in the private sector says many former soldiers are struggling to find meaningful employment after serving their country.

Firefighters on the front lines of B.C.'s raging wildfires are bracing for expected lightning and wind today, with all eyes on Williams Lake.

A crew of 21 firefighters from New Brunswick is headed across the country to help battle forest fires in British Columbia.

Canada's military is going all out to erase its reputation for intolerance and misogyny, aiming to recast itself instead as welcoming to Canadians of all races, religions and sexual orientations.

Canada's top soldier is planning to issue a directive in the coming days encouraging military personnel to attend Pride events in uniform.

Toiling at the heart of the Taliban insurgency offered Lamarre a brief respite from the emotional war that had been raging inside him since childhood. Here, he needed only one label: soldier.

The Trudeau government is planning to spend billions more on the navy's four wayward submarines to keep them operating into the 2030s.

The Trudeau government committed on Wednesday to spend $62 billion more over the next two decades for a major expansion of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Canadians need to spend billions on "hard power" military capability because they can't rely on the U.S. or others for protection, says Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

More than 130 communities in the province have been hit by the flooding, with an estimated 1,500 homes affected and 850 people forced to evacuate.

Harjit Sajjan's "analysis was so compelling that it drove a number of large scale theatre-resourced efforts, including OPERATION MEDUSA," wrote Brig.-Gen. David Fraser in a Sept. 16, 2006 letter.