Irving shipbuilding

The Defence Department's procurement chief is hoping to have a better sense by the end of the year as to how much Canada will have to pay to build a new fleet of warships for the Royal Canadian Navy.

While the federal government is pressing ahead with plans to buy billions of dollars worth of much-needed equipment for the Canadian Armed Forces, the Department of National Defence's top procurement official says COVID-19 is further slowing down some already delayed purchases.

Canada's cutthroat shipbuilding industry saw a surprise alliance on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, as two competing yards announced plans to team up to win a multibillion-dollar contract to build a new polar icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard.

There is a new lead in the case of the missing icebreaker, though exactly how the story will end remains to be seen.

An Ontario shipyard is accusing the federal government of trying to unfairly award Quebec's Chantier Davie shipyard potentially billions of dollars in work without a competition.

The federal government has officially launched a search for a third shipyard to join a massive naval procurement process.

The Canadian Coast Guard's recent struggles resupplying northern communities and rescuing ice-jammed ferries appear set to continue despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to spend $15.7 billion on "a complete fleet renewal."

Canada's federal procurement minister says she wishes the Irving company and its lawyers hadn't threatened to sue reporters asking questions about the company's federal shipbuilding contracts.

The federal Liberals have ripped open Canada's multibillion-dollar plan to build new ships for the navy and coast guard, prompting cheers and frustration from shipyards in different parts of the country.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, that the federal government is buying two more Arctic patrol ships on the top of the six it has already ordered from Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding.

Quebec's Davie shipyard is in line to receive a contract for the construction of two East Coast ferries, the federal government announced on Friday, May 17, 2019.

Canada's justice minister and independent prosecutors strongly denied political interference Wednesday in the case of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, in the face of continued accusations by the opposition in the House of Commons.

A shortage of sailors is making it hard for the Royal Canadian Navy to operate its ships and work on replacing them at the same time, according to a senior naval officer.

The Boss. MN3. C34. The Kraken. Those are some of the "codenames" that officials at the Department of National Defence used to refer to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in internal communications, a court heard as the suspended military officer's pre-trial resumed on Tuesday, January 29, 2019.

The $60-billion effort to build new warships for Canada's navy has hit another snag, this time in the form of a legal challenge by one of three companies in the competition to design the vessels.