The Canadian Forces purchases much of its ammunition from a single source - General Dynamics. The defence minister, Harjit Sajjan, is waiting for the results of a study he commissioned on how well the system is working.

On the next generation of frigates, the United States Navy hopes to achieve interoperability, if not common combat systems, with Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The four countries meet every six months on naval matters, and frigate procurement has been a recent agenda item.

Airbus Defence and Space has followed its earlier achievement in demonstrating Automatic Air-to-Air (A3R) refuelling of a fighter with another world-first – the same operation performed with a large receiver aircraft.

Up to 250 Canadian troops will be heading to a new mission in Baghdad where they will help direct a NATO training operation and provide protection to the alliance’s headquarters in the Iraqi capital.

At the NATO summit in Brussels, US President Donald Trump said Russia "totally controlled" Germany and demanded members increase defence spending to four percent of Gross Domestic Product. Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week.

Canada will command a new NATO training mission in Iraq, beginning this fall. The deployment will involve up to 250 Canadian Armed Forces personnel and four Griffon helicopters for a year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement this morning at the NATO summit in Brussels.

More than 200 soldiers are travelling to the Netherlands for the 102nd annual International Four Days Marches Nijmegen, held July 17-20. This year’s event commemorates the 66th year of CAF participation in the Four Days Marches since the CAF attended for the first time in 1952.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Canadian soldiers in Latvia and attends a NATO summit this week. He is expected to announce this country is extending its deployment in Latvia as a deterrent to Russian aggression.

Outreach programs have been designed to build bridges into Indigenous communities in Canada and to raise awareness among Indigenous people of potential military or civilian careers with the CAF and the Department of National Defence. Upon successful completion and if they wish to do so, graduates can pursue a career in the CAF Primary Reserve Force, Regular Force or work in a civilian occupation with DND.   

Eight boys and their soccer coach who remain trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand waited for a rescue operation to resume on Monday, a day after the first four were brought out safely and whisked away to hospital.

Toronto's police are investigating a letter from an officer to Mayor John Tory chief accusing him of contributing to gun violence by canceling the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy in 2016. The police task force was launched after the 2005 Summer of the Gun.

Navtech Inc., a marine-engineering firm is suing Davie Canada for $2.66-million it claims the shipbuilder owes. The company is asking the Federal Court to seize MV Asterix, which Davie leases to the Canadian military. Davie refitted that ship under a five-year contract with the Government of Canada.

TOA Canada Corporation plans to relocate to a newly custom-built facility in west Mississauga by August 20, 2018.

Rescue teams in northern Thailand are giving crash courses in swimming and diving as part of preparations to remove the young soccer squad from a cave. Enough supplies have been prepared to last 4 months, as timeline for rescue remains unclear.

Canada’s embassy in Haiti was overrun by a criminal organization after more than a dozen locals hired to work at the diplomatic mission in Port-au-Prince swindled more than $1.7 million through numerous schemes and frauds, internal investigation reports reveal.

Prominent Canadian human rights and arms control groups are questioning the Trudeau government about the sale of Terradyne Gurkha fighting vehicles to Saudi Arabia. A government inquiry has determined the vehicles were not involved in human rights abuses in 2017.

A recent examination has found that Google lets hundreds of outside software developers scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users who signed up for email-based services offering shopping price comparisons, automated travel-itinerary planners or other tools. Google does little to police those developers, who train their computers—and, in some cases, employees—to read their users’ emails.

Passengers trapped for a night on a stricken ferry off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi were rescued early Wednesday, officials said, as the death toll rose to 31 with three people missing and believed drowned inside the vessel.

The Calgary Stampede begins Friday and visitors will notice more security measures this year, including metal detectors, screening and vehicle barriers. A Stampede official said barriers are largely designed to match Stampede decor.

As thousands of police officers search across France for a convict who escaped prison in a commando-style helicopter raid Sunday, investigators are piecing together how the precisely coordinated, astonishingly brazen caper came together — probably through months of high-tech spy work and secret plans.

After 10 days trapped in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand, and after an enormous search effort that had transfixed Thailand, the missing 12 boys and their soccer coach had finally been found in Tham Luang Cave.

Belgian authorities have charged an Iranian diplomat and three other people with plotting a terrorist attack in France. The planned bombing targeted an Iranian opposition event near Paris which included Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's attorney.

German and Dutch forces supporting the United Nations in Mali had advanced combat-capable helicopters: the 'Tiger' and the 'Apache'. The 'Griffon' helicopter Canada is sending was never designed for a combat role.

The Department of National Defence has begun a discussion with the provinces and territories to improve the coordination of services across the country, and the relocation process for Canadian Armed Forces members and their families.

Eighteen months after being suspended from his duties as Vice Chief Defence Staff for allegedly leaking secrets, VAdm Mark Norman is being removed from that position. Allegations against him of breach of trust are before the courts.

Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Burma’s army chief and military top brass to face justice in a searing new report documenting alleged crimes against humanity that forced over 700,000 of the Rohingya Muslim minority to flee to Bangladesh last year.

After news reports stated that Canada was holding C6 machine guns to send to Ukraine, armed forces members protested to a news outlet that they were experiencing a shortage of the weapon. The Department of National Defence acknowledged "a fleet serviceability concern with the C6, that is being managed closely, but that does require reduced unit holdings in some instances ..."

At a time when US President Donald Trump is pressing allied countries to increase their defence spending, Canada's military procurement programs seem dead in the water.

The December 2017 'morale trip' to Greece and Latvia on an armed forces aircraft that resulted in sexual assault charges against former NHL star Dave Williams cost taxpayers at least $337,000.

Italian aerospace firm, Leonardo, dropped a lawsuit against Canada over what it claimed was a rigged aircraft purchase shortly before the federal government awarded it a new sole-source deal potentially worth billions of dollars.

Even as Canada is sending a contingent to Mali to assist with United Nations peacekeeping, there are calls in Canada to equip Ukraine's armed forces with offensive weapons. Ukraine is the world's 11th largest arms exporter.

Canada's plan to send six helicopters to assist with United Nations peacekeeping in Mali may be overshadowed by atrocities committed by that country's military. Mali's defence minister has admitted that government soldiers were engaged in “gross violations” after the discovery of the bodies of 25 civilians in mass graves.

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first two of a total of six H145 helicopters to Swiss Air-Rescue Rega. These will replace Rega’s existing fleet of EC145 helicopters, which will be phased out by mid-2019. The first H145 helicopter is expected to be deployed at the Bern base in October.

Irving Shipbuilding has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the union building Royal Canadian Navy warships at its Halifax shipyard. No details will be released until employees vote on the new deal.