Death of a Hero
Sgt. (Ret’d) Ernest Alvia “Smokey” Smith, the last surviving Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), died this August at......
A New Dimension
The increased pace of operations, and need to cross-train technical personnel, all within ever-shrinking training budgets, creates a daunting challenge......
Making Connections
GTEC Week, an annual gathering of public sector information technology (IT) professionals, brings forth leading expertise and technology solutions for......
Raytheon’s Ron Fisher hits the ground running
As the new president of Ottawa, Ont.-based Raytheon Canada Ltd., he has set goals of almost doubling the business to...
A job That Will Never Be Finished
Minister McLellan, you head a diverse and complex agency that includes emergency preparedness, the RCMP, CSIS, border security, correctional service,...
Paradigm Shift: Training the Military for Emergency Relief
Canada’s military has a long tradition of responding to natural calamities in support of local (i.e., civil) authorities. During the......
The Wings of Fantasy or a Practical Alternative?
The entire airlift issue is a challenge,” a senior Air Force staff officer acknowledged in the Ottawa Citizen in October......
Explosive Innovation
Identifying and removing land mines is tough enough without having to worry about their daunting variety. Decades of technological development......