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From shipyard to sea in just moments: Relive this milestone captured by @IrvingShipbuild in Halifax. 🚢 The CCGS Donjek, our new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, will join our fleet later this year—stay tuned!

New Cape Breton Medical Campus Officially Opens news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/05/14/… Photo courtesy of Cape Breton University

@O’Brien’s tours in Bay Bulls a must do when visiting @Newfoundland. Wonderful scenery, birds, whales & so much more. A genuine great outdoor experience. Music, song unique food & drink & the finest folks to be found

Nova Scotia Contracts Four Fixed-Wing Water Bombers news.novascotia.ca/en/2026/05/13/…

Ukraine allows Putin’s May 9 parade to go ahead after Trump’s intervention and a promise to exchange 1,000 Ukrainian POWs. No prisoners have been freed, and Putin after his parade unleashed one of the biggest missile and drone barrages of the war. Here is a Kyiv high-rise where dozens were killed and injured last night, including children, and many more still remain under the rubble.

The lost decade: 'Between 2015 and 2024, more than $1 trillion of investment exited Canada—the largest capital exodus in Canadian history. For every dollar of inward investment, two dollars exited.' rbc.com/en/thought-lea….

‼️BREAKING NEWS The Minister of Finance just hired external consultants for $12,000 to write a speech about reducing the use of external consultants by 20%. You cannot make this up. Canadians are being told to tighten their belts while this government spends taxpayer money hiring consultants to explain why there are too many consultants. #cndpoli

More than a monument—it’s memory made tangible. The Danger Tree replica ensures the legacy of Beaumont-Hamel endures. #RemembranceDay #CAF #HistoryMatters #Legacy vanguardcanada.com/a-symbol-rebor…

Congrats to VAdm Angus Topshee who is appointment Vice Chief of the Defence Staff of @CanadianForces His dedication to the modernization of the @RoyalCanNavy is widely recognized and deeply respected. Best wishes for this leadership role in service to Canada. ⚓️🇨🇦⚓️

The longest campaign of WWII shaped Canada’s navy and national identity. 81 years later, its lessons still guide maritime security. #RCN #BattleOfTheAtlantic #MaritimeSecurity #CAF #History vanguardcanada.com/guarding-the-l…

Angus Topshee, outspoken head of Canada's navy, promoted to vice chief of defence staff nationalpost.com/news/politics/…

For the first time since May 31, 1996, a keel will be laid for a combatant ship in Canada, the future HMCS Fraser (III). Irving Shipbuilding photo.

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"We're behind the times." Drone-focused NATO war games reveal gaps as alliance struggles to adjust to new form of warfare. My report from Latvia theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

⭕🇨🇦🇸🇪🇺🇸 Canada is preparing a $5+ billion airborne early warning aircraft program to counter hypersonic missiles, drones and long range threats from Russia and China. The contenders: Sweden’s Saab GlobalEye vs Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail and L3Harris’ Aeris X. But this isn’t just about radar aircraft anymore, it’s becoming a geopolitical choice: Closer integration with the U.S. military ecosystem or deeper defence ties with Europe. Source: CBC

A special moment @Reganairport, DC this am. A flight carrying US Veterans arrived to visit their regiment’s monument. As they deplaned they were greeted by an honour guard. Most citizens stood and applauded. A moving and respectful show of support for those who proudly served.

The Government of Nova Scotia established over 60 historical gold districts, starting in the early 1860s during the province’s first gold rush. However, while some districts became big gold producers, many produced little to nothing. See the story: facebook.com/MiningNS #nspoli

Wojtek was considered a full-fledged soldier. He had his own military serial number, the rank of corporal, rations, and even a salary. A private of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the 2nd Polish Corps. Only instead of carrying a rifle, he carried crates of artillery shells. --- Polish soldiers found him as a bear cub in Iran in 1942 — small, hungry, and without his mother. They fed him from a bottle and took him with them. When the unit was boarding a ship to Egypt, the British refused to allow a bear on board. So the Poles officially enlisted him into the army. They issued him documents and entered his name into the personnel records. That is how Wojtek became a soldier. By 1944, he weighed nearly 200 kilograms. And when the Battle of Monte Cassino began — one of the bloodiest battles of the Italian campaign — Wojtek worked alongside the men. He carried crates of 25-pound artillery shells from the supply depot to the guns. For 4–6 hours at a time, under constant shellfire. After the battle, soldiers recalled that he never dropped the crates. He carried them carefully and placed them exactly where he was shown. He saw that the men were exhausted and wounded, yet he kept working. After the capture of Monte Cassino, the image of a bear carrying an artillery shell became the official emblem of the 22nd Company. It was painted on vehicles and worn as patches. Wojtek became the symbol of the unit. He drank beer — the soldiers shared their rations with him. He loved cigarettes, or rather chewing them. He slept in tents beside the men. When a soldier was wounded, Wojtek would come over, lie beside him, and refuse to leave until the man was taken to the hospital. After the war, Wojtek was sent to the Edinburgh Zoo, where he lived until 1963. Veterans from his unit came to visit him — and he recognized them. He would stand on his hind legs and become visibly excited. There is a monument to him in Edinburgh. Another in Kraków. And one more in London. A bear who went through war, helped save lives through his labor, and remained in history not as a savage beast, but as a comrade. And perhaps the most remarkable thing about Wojtek’s story is this: in the midst of total brutality, people still found the strength to give warmth and care to a helpless wild animal — and he answered them with the purest loyalty a living creature can offer.

Douglas Jung was a secret agent who operated in New Guinea during the Second World War. When he came home to Canada, he became the first visible minority to be elected to the House of Commons. This is his story. 📸 Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society 🧵 1/7

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY! Today, on the birthday of Florence Nightingale, we honour the profession she helped shape through discipline, compassion, courage, and a relentless commitment to better care. Nurses are often present at life’s most vulnerable moments. They bring skill, steadiness, judgment, and humanity when people need them most. Their contribution to health services, military and civilian alike, is profound. Today, I especially want to single out my favourite nurse: my wife, LCol Colleen Grebstad, Royal Canadian Medical Services. Colleen, thank you for your service, your professionalism, your compassion, and the quiet strength you bring to everything you do. Happy International Nurses Day to all nurses. We see you. We value you. We are grateful.