“CAF – Canadian Armed Forces”

Mark Carney’s first budget has delivered the biggest increase in defence spending in decades, as the government seeks to rebuild the military at a time when the Prime Minister says Canada can no longer rely on the United States for protection.

The fiscal plan, tabled a week before Remembrance Day, includes $84-billion to the Department of National Defence over five years, believed to be the biggest short-term cash infusion for the military since the Korean War. The new spending will go to pay raises, precision-strike capabilities, upgrading aging infrastructure and cyberdefences, among other things.

Canada’s young people are falling behind. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 sits at 14.2 per cent, more than double the national average. The unemployment rate among youth attending school is 17.1 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points from last September. Among those youth who are working, many are under-employed, bouncing between short-term contracts or part-time jobs that barely cover the costs of rent or school. Add to that, AI eliminating entry level jobs and an economy braced for more tariffs, and the employment prospects for young people look increasingly bleak.

This past week, Gen. Jennie Carignan, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff, tearfully apologized for what she called “systemic racism and racial discrimination” in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The intention was noble. Yet the sweeping assertion that the CAF is “systemically racist” demands closer scrutiny.

NEW: Canada’s top general, Jennie Carignan, starts crying as she apologizes for “systemic racism.”

At one point during her speech, it sounded like someone was weeping in the background as well.

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 31, 2025

The sight of Prime Minister Mark Carney emerging from a South Korean submarine flying the Maple Leaf flag this week was symbolic of the urgency with which the prime minister appears intent on restoring the rusting Canadian Armed Forces.

Carney was in the country to attend the Asia-Pacific Co-operation summit and took the opportunity to visit the Hanwha Ocean shipbuilding facility in Geoje. The Hanwha Ocean company, with its partner Hyundai, is bidding for the multi-billion-dollar contract to build 12 subs to replace the four second-hand Victoria class boats that the Canadian government bought from the British in the 1990s.

The Canadian military has set in motion an initiative to increase the number of its part-time soldiers from the current 28,000 to 400,000 as part of an overall mobilization plan, according to a directive approved by senior leaders.

The directive, signed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck on May 30, 2025, outlines the need to increase the current reserve force from 23,561 to 100,000 and supplementary and other reserves from the current 4,384 to 300,000.

Impossible! Even the most optimistic estimates declare a maximum of 200K Lesbians, transvestites and foreign terrorists in Canada.

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is struggling to recruit enough members to meet its operational requirements and does not have enough adequate housing for its members, according to two new reports by Canada’s Auditor General Karen Hogan.

Hogan’s Oct. 21 report said that on average, the CAF successfully recruited around one in every 13 applicants over the last three years.

“The armed forces also did not have sufficient basic training capacity to meet the demand if the recruitment targets had been met,” Auditor General Karen Hogan told the Public Accounts Committee on Oct. 21 while presenting her findings.

As 2025 nears its end, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) face a looming deadline: women are supposed to make up 25% of its ranks by 2026. Where did this 25% target come from, and why does it matter? Is it just an arbitrary target?

Have at it.

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces are suing an intelligence watchdog to prevent it from releasing without further redactions a review that found that some of their human intelligence source handling activities may break the law.

In a lawsuit filed in late August, both federal bodies requested a Federal Court judge quash the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency’s (NSIRA) decision to release a redacted version of a 2023 review under access to information laws.

At last! Finally, we’re seeing some real nation-building by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

I’m referring, of course, to his decision to extend the national school lunch program.

This is an excellent way to ensure Canadian schoolchildren — who represent the future of our country — aren’t drifting off to sleep in class because they’re hungry. (An astounding 2.5 million Canadian children live in food-insecure households.)

The Star. Who else?

A new federal study suggests Canadians are wary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to boost defence spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, with most respondents in focus groups reacting negatively to the proposal.

Blacklock’s Reporter says according to the Privy Council report, participants questioned whether such a rise was economically feasible, especially given other financial pressures like inflation and high living costs.

“Almost all reacted negatively to this idea,” the report said.

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