Category: Domestic Operations

• Successful counter-drug operation nets prestigious award
  Operation CHABANEL, an RCMP counter-drug operation supported by the Navy in the spring of 2006 off the coast of Africa, has received a prestigious award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)...

• Operation NANOOK 07
  Approximately 600 Canadian Forces members, Canadian Coast Guard personnel and RCMP members recently participated in Operation NANOOK 07.

• Canadian navy conducts exercise in local waters
  Three Canadian naval ships, supported by CH-124 Sea King helicopters and CP-140 Aurora long range patrol aircraft will be conducting a naval task group exercise in the Nanoose Bay torpedo firing range and off the West Coast of Vancouver Island from July 18 to 29.

• HMCS ST. JOHN'S participates in counter-drug operation
  As most Canadians planned to celebrate Canada Day, HMCS ST. JOHN’S was making plans of a different variety known only as Operation COLOMBINE. Upon arriving home after conducting Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile trials, ST. JOHN’S found herself Ready Duty Ship and with an unscheduled, covert tasking: ST. JOHN’S quickly readied for sea.

• TRINITY's "Fiona" takes the plunge in search of Avro Arrow
  HMCS KINGSTON — “Like trying to find a needle in a haystack”, was the key message during the Navy’s July 5-7 expedition in search of the elusive Avro Arrow scale models believed to be on the bottom of Lake Ontario.