Defence Team News - September 23, 2025

Now on the Maple Leaf

• Statement from the Defence Team Co-Champions for Indigenous Peoples
• Supporting Indigenous Defence Team members’ mental health and well-being

Messages for the Defence Team

• Gender Equality Week 2025: Building a stronger Defence Team
• Defence Team marks Right to Know Week
• Stories of change: Your last opportunity to be a Defence Representative
• Inside the Quality Engineering Test Establishment: Evaluating hazards in the Laser Safety Lab
• Think you have what it takes to solve the Defence Team Word Puzzle?

CAF Employees

• The 2025 Your Say Survey is now live for Regular Force and Primary Reserve members
• CDS/CAF CWO Message: 2025 National Veterans’ Week Speakers Program
• From boots to bots: How AI is shaping the future of the Canadian Armed Forces
• Op HIGHMAST - Strengthening global partnerships and advancing military technology

Public Service Employees

• Launch of EC deployment inventories for Indigenous and racialized employees
• Get online second language evaluations this fall

Leadership Corner

• Complete your mid-year performance assessment
• Launch of the new DND Pool Library for public service employees

The Maple Leaf

• Training Mission Commanders during Exercise COBRA WARRIOR 25-2
• Launch of the King Charles III version of the Special Service Medal
• HMCS Max Bernays pushes the RCN’s northern edge
• A Cadet’s perspective: How military life builds resilience
• CAFCYBERCOM marks one year of cyber defence excellence

Videos

• 60 Seconds With… Captain Emilie Tremblay and Captain Alexandra Alexuta – Aides-de-Camp to the Governor General of Canada

Upcoming Events

• October 9: Register now for the upcoming Canadian Special Operations Forces Command Virtual Job Fair

Digital Learning

• Space-based capabilities are critical to CAF operations and day-to-day business. Isn’t it time you learned more?
• The Torch – The CAF Self-Development Learning Hub: What's new this week?

Events and Commemorations

• September 21 – 27: Gender Equality Week
• September 23: International Day of Sign Languages 
• September 26, 1999: Congo: CAF launches Op CROCODILE (peace and stabilization efforts)
• September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

For more information, please visit Canadian Heritage and Veterans Affairs Canada.

In case you missed it

• DT News on TML - September 16
• DT News on TML - September 9
• DT News on TML - September 3
• DT News on TML - August 26
• DT News on TML - August 19
• DT News on TML - August 12
• DT News on TML - August 6
• DT News on TML - July 30

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