Murray Brewster
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Liberals look to shore up veterans vote with transition cash
The Liberal government is pouring $135 million over six years into the system that attempts to smooth veterans’ transition from uniforms to civilian life. → Read More
DND extends life of submarine escape suits beyond expiry date as fleet shows its age
DND is extending the life of its stock of submarine escape suits as the federal government goes looking for brand new ones. The safety equipment procurement has rekindled the debate about the age of the navy's submarines and the Liberal government's unwillingness to replace them. → Read More
Used Australian fighter jets could cost $1.1B: Parliamentary budget officer
Buying used Australian fighter jets to buttress the Royal Canadian Air Force is expected to cost taxpayers as much as $1.1 billion over the next dozen or more years, the Parliamentary Budget Office said Thursday. → Read More
Military making slow progress against sexual misconduct, says report
Seven of a former supreme court justice's 10 recommendations to stamp out sexual misconduct in the Canadian military are “not yet fully achieved” — four years after the judge's landmark report shook the institution to its foundations. → Read More
Cyber-warfare could be entering a new and alarming phase, ex-CIA analyst tells MPs
Online attacks on Canada’s financial system could become far more destructive as more militaries around the globe get involved in cyber operations, a security expert and former CIA analyst told a House of Commons committee Wednesday. → Read More
Trade tribunal rejects rival's bid to block warship contract
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has dismissed a complaint by one of the companies that was competing for the job of designing and helping to build the navy’s next generation of warships. → Read More
Military looking to avoid a 'black eye' by stalling human rights complaint, lawyer says
The Canadian military is being accused of dragging its feet to prevent a human rights complaint from being heard regarding the case of a former naval officer who was told to choose between her child and her career. → Read More
Canada to deploy cargo plane part time for UN missions in new year
A Canadian military Hercules transport will soon begin once-a-week support missions for United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa, the country's top military commander said. → Read More
Trudeau insists Canadian presence in Mali making a difference
Canada’s presence in Mali is helping the war-torn country get back on its feet at a faster pace, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted during a highly secret, whirlwind visit on Saturday. → Read More
Trudeau has Christmas dinner with Canadian aircrew, medical technicians in Mali
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a surprise, secret visit to Canadian military aircrew and medical technicians deployed on the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Gao, Mali. → Read More
Procurement official suspended days after his name went public, Vice-Admiral Norman's pre-trial hears
The federal procurement official named in court proceedings against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman was suspended without pay only days after his name went public in the case, Crown lawyers revealed on Friday. → Read More
Seamus O'Regan draws scorn for comparing his career arc to veterans' struggles
When Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan left journalism, he said it was “a shock to his system,” a painful time in his life that gave him insight into how members of the Canadian military feel as they take off their uniforms for the last time. → Read More
'Subterfuge and deceit': What the Crown's case against Mark Norman says — and what it has to prove
Documents filed by the Crown in support of its breach-of-trust case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman provide some intriguing — and occasionally profane — details of a navy procurement process going off the rails. → Read More
Canadian special ops helping Iraqis roll up remaining ISIS opposition, says Vance
Canadian special operations troops have been accompanying Iraqi forces on security operations as the last pockets of Islamic State resistance are mopped up, Canada's top military commander said today. → Read More
The high cost of winning: How the First World War changed the way Canadians view conflict
One hundred years ago, Canadians helped to win a world war - and struggled for years afterward to reconcile that victory with the terrible price they paid for it. → Read More
There are many questions about the Mark Norman affair but Tories keep asking the same one
The Conservative opposition beat its head against a brick wall Wednesday after two days of successfully hammering cracks into the Liberal government's stony silence over the handling of the criminal case involving the military's former second-in-command. → Read More
Military probe turns up no trace of suspected Agent Orange barrels at New Brunswick base
An investigation into a report that barrels of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange may have been surreptitiously buried at a New Brunswick military base has apparently come up empty. → Read More
Canada's special forces kept too many secrets about Afghan missions, says report
Canada’s special forces and elite counterterrorism units took secrecy too far and left their commanders — and sometimes the units themselves — in the dark about critical and occasionally deadly missions in Afghanistan, says the final report of a long-awaited closed-door board of inquiry. → Read More
Trump warns Congress to keep out of NAFTA talks with Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat to withdraw entirely from the North American Free Trade Agreement on Saturday and warned Congress to butt out of negotiations with Canada. He also tweeted: "There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal." → Read More
Families, former commanders urge open access to rebuilt Afghan war memorial
National Defence will soon inaugurate a rebuilt cenotaph to Canadian and American war dead in Afghanistan. But the memorial stands behind a security cordon at the new DND headquarters in Ottawa and families and former commanders say the public must have easy access to better understand a misunderstood war. → Read More