Latest CDS Message March 10, 2025. Last week, the Minister of National Defence released the Canadian Military Colleges (CMC) Review Board report.

Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS; French: chef d'état-major de la Défense; CEMD) is the title of the professional head of the Canadian Armed Forces.As the senior military position, the CDS advises the Cabinet, particularly the minister of national defence and the prime minister. [1] The position is a Crown-in-Council appointment made on the advice of the prime minister.

A graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada in Engineering, General Jennie Carignan was commissioned into the Canadian Military Engineers in 1990. Since then, she commanded two Combat Engineer Regiments, Royal Military College Saint-Jean and the 2nd Canadian Division, where she led more than 10,000 soldiers and spearheaded crisis operations during the flood relief efforts in the spring ...

2024年6月28日 · Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan has been named the next chief of the defence staff, CBC News and Radio-Canada have learned — making her the first woman to serve as the top commander of the Canadian ...

2024年7月18日 · Today, General Jennie Carignan assumed leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) from outgoing Chief of the Defence Staff, General Wayne Eyre. Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, presided over this morning’s ceremony, which took place at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

General Marie Annabelle Jennie Carignan CMM MSC MSM CD (born 1968) is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) since July 2024. Born in Quebec, Carignan graduated as a military engineer from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean.She served as an officer in combat engineering regiments in various Canadian military actions in the 1990s and 2000s ...

2024年7月18日 · The latest data shows the CAF heard from more than 70,000 people interested in joining in 2023-2024 but the military was only able to get 4,301 of them into uniform due to a backlog in the ...

2024年7月6日 · The CAF will also bid farewell to the current CDS General Eyre and his 40 years of military service as he retires from the military. Above image: the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Wayne Eyre, CMM, MSC, CD addresses Ukrainian recruits during Operation UNIFIER-UK on 28 October 2022 in the United Kingdom. Photo by: Corporal Eric Greico ...

2024年9月20日 · O nly weeks after stepping into her new role as Chief of the Defence (CDS), Gen. Jennie Carignan has named the recruitment and retention of personnel her top priority. To ensure the top priority materializes, Gen. Carignan and CWO Bob McCann, Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Chief Warrant Officer, have teamed up to outline four pillars.

2023年2月17日 · R econstitution, Culture, Operations and Modernization are the four areas of focus for the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) moving forward in 2023 and beyond.. In a new message released by Gen. Wayne Eyre on Feb. 8, the CDS outlined his major areas of focus for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), which is now facing an …