CDR recently sent Ottawa Bureau Chief, James Careless, to sit down with Canada’s new Minister of National Defence, Bill Blair, for an exclusive interview.

CDR recently sent Senior Staff Writer, Joetey Attariwala, to interview the Commander of the Canadian Army, Lieutenant-General Jocelyn Paul. 

CDR had the opportunity to sit down with the company’s President, Shaun McEwan. The conversation focused on the company’s various training & simulation products, their involvement in key cybersecurity programs, and their support of veterans. 

CDR recently sent Aviation Editor, Joetey Attariwala, to interview Mike Mueller, the President and CEO at the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC), the national association representing Canada’s aerospace manufacturing and services sector. 

CAE’s Defense & Security Business Group is at the cutting edge of this shift, according to Group President, Daniel Gelston. In a one-on-one conversation with CDR’s Ottawa Bureau Chief, James Careless, Gelston outlined his company’s response to 21-century military training.

CDR’s Senior Staff Writer, Joetey Attariwala, recently spoke with Vice-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie, a Royal Canadian Navy flag officer who is serving as the Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC).
 

Halifax Correspondent, Jay Heisler, spoke with ACADA’s CEO about some of the opportunities and challenges facing Atlantic Canada’s Aerospace & Defence industry.

Interview with the President and CEO of Federal Fleet Services, John Schmidt.

For CDR’s annual report on the Navy, we asked Senior Staff Writer, Joetey Attariwala, to interview Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy. Here is that in-depth conversation.

CDR recently sent Senior Staff Writer, Joetey Attariwala, to conduct an in-depth interview with the Honourable James Bezan, Conservative Shadow Minister for National Defence. Here is that discussion.

CDR recently spoke with Lieutenant-General Blaise F. Frawley to get an inside look at the current state, and the modernization, of this bi-national military command. Here is our report.

CDR’s Aviation Editor, Joetey Attariwala, recently had the opportunity to conduct an exclusive one-on-one interview with Lieutenant-General Eric Kenny, the new Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Here is that conversation.

For CDR’s annual interview with the Chief of the Defence Staff, we asked Senior Staff Writer, Joetey Attariwala, to interview Canada’s top soldier.
 

In an exclusive interview with CDR’s Ottawa Bureau Chief, James Careless, Calian Group President and CEO, Kevin Ford, spoke about his company’s four pillars of business, Calian’s commitment to investing in innovation, and its intention to take its Canadian-based success to a global level.

CDR: Mr. McCarthy, thank you for joining me. You’re relatively new to the role of CEO at Seaspan, so what do you feel you can bring to the shipyard that will enable success? 
John McCarthy: I have now been at Seaspan Shipyards in a senior leadership role for four and a half years and have been intimately involved in the business, so this is a very natural transition. When you look at my background, I have 37 years in shipbuilding, eight of those in Canada and nearly three decades in the US and international yards building surface combatants.