Base Gagetown administers COVID-19 Vaccine Booster
We are pleased to announce that Base Gagetown is set to provide COVID-19 vaccine boosters to eligible military members as of January 17. Vaccine booster clinics will be conducted at Building H-12. Base personnel can receive additional information and guidance from...
Update: ‘Other Leave With Pay (699)’ guidance
We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic situation, associated public health advice and provincial/territorial measures. At this time, we are temporarily amending the ‘Other Leave with Pay’ (699 Leave) guidance related to the COVID-19 pandemic which came into...
Message from the New Deputy Minister of National Defence
Team, Now that I am officially in the Deputy Minister (DM) seat at National Defence (DND), I wanted to introduce—or in some cases, reintroduce—myself to you and share that I am very happy to be back at DND. First, let me say that I can appreciate if the arrival of...
January is Mentoring Month! Become a mentor/mentee and support our workforce
Defence Stories Calling all members of the Defence Team: January is #MentoringMonth! We want you to support our workforce through virtual mentoring! The Defence Team Mentoring Program (accessible only on the National Defence network) is open to open to public service...
Ethics scenarios: What would you do?
A discriminatory joke Defence Ethics Sally, originally from Newfoundland, works in a CAF repair and maintenance crew. Henri is a recent addition to another team that works in the same building, and the two have chatted with each other a few times. One day Henri...
Farewell Message
Team, When I joined the Department of National Defence (DND) in 2017, I knew that there would be challenges: that DND was huge and unwieldy, that the military/civilian relationships could—at times—be prickly, that procurement was often slow, that infrastructure was a...