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The Ontario Soldiers’ Aid Commission, the province’s emergency grant program for veterans, turns away veterans of recent conflicts while returning most of its budget unspent every year to the government, Global News has found.

The Supreme Court of Canada debates today whether the Canadian military has the constitutional authority to try its own members for serious crimes like sexual assault and murder – a case that some legal observers are calling a once-in-a-generation event.

Canadian peacekeepers were called upon to evacuate several wounded French soldiers in Mali earlier this month after their patrol was ambushed while hunting for militants along the border with Niger.

While industry representatives have been talking about the possibility that the Type 26 design will need to be altered significantly to meet Canadian requirements, DND says there’s nothing to such claims.

The prime minister’s bureaucrats are hoarding a trove of decades-old records that chronicle Canada’s Cold War intelligence history, say security researchers who are pushing to make the files publicly accessible.

HMCS Corner Brook’s Extended Docking Work Period, presently underway in Esquimalt, BC, was scheduled to be completed in 2020. But, an assessment conducted by the contractor, Babcock Canada Inc., indicates that the work could take longer than expected, DND has confirmed.

While women have been involved in Canada's military service for more than 100 years, their involvement remains significantly less than men. Recent CAF numbers show of the more than 96,000 members in the regular and reserve forces, 15.4 per cent are female.

New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.

The Liberal government is pouring $135 million over six years into the system that attempts to smooth veterans' transition from uniforms to civilian life. It's one of a series of relatively small measures for the veterans community contained in Bill Morneau's new budget.

The Trudeau government is proposing to eliminate the federal agency in charge of traveller, baggage and worker security screening at airports. Buried in the budget is a clause noting that the government is "transitioning the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to an independent, not-for-profit entity."

Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, have issued a statement announcing Canada’s support to victim identification efforts following the tragic aircraft accident involving an Ethiopian Airlines flight.

A Canadian Ranger from Igloolik, Nunavut, won't face any penalties for illegally harvesting a caribou in 2015 when he didn't know there was a ban in place.