Change log

Where the data stands

Read straight from the files the site loads, so this cannot drift from what the pages are actually serving.

What changed

• 2026-09-15
  correction

  Pay, training, entry guidance and priority fleet milestones reviewed

  Pay scale values match the official monthly tables; the effective date remains April 2025. Refreshed the 110-entry career directory, included officer training excerpts, and replaced inferred training totals with source units and phase descriptions. Updated joining and Reserve guidance, plus seven priority equipment records. Review dates apply only to the claims identified, not every specification or eligibility condition.

• 2026-09-08
  feature

  What the Forces are actually doing

  Operations covers all 42 named commitments — 27 running, 5 announced for closure, 10 concluded. REASSURANCE holds over 3,000 members through the year and is the largest; JADE holds four officers and has run since 1954. Filterable by theatre and status, and where an official page names a platform the entry links to it: the Leopard 2 to Afghanistan, the CP-140 to sanctions monitoring off Korea.

• 2026-09-08
  correction

  Operations IMPACT and ARTEMIS have both concluded

  Canada's Middle East commitments were consolidated into Operation AMARNA in 2026 — NATO Mission Iraq support, capacity building in Jordan and Lebanon, and a Combined Maritime Forces contribution. Most secondary sources still list IMPACT and ARTEMIS as current. Both are here as concluded entries pointing at their successor. Separately, Kosovo closes in December 2026, and Cyprus, South Sudan and the DRC by mid-2027.

• 2026-09-08
  structure

  NUNALIVUT and NUNAKPUT are not operations any more

  Both ran as standalone Arctic operations — NUNAKPUT to 2017, NUNALIVUT to 2018 — and both still happen, as named phases of Operation NANOOK rather than in their own right. Searching for either as a current operation finds nothing, which is why they are recorded here with what became of them.

• 2026-09-08
  feature

  The site no longer stops at trade-qualified

  Serving covers what happens after: what you are actually signed up for and for how long, what a paid degree costs in years afterwards, the courses that stand between one rank and the next, leave, the pension, what you are paid on top of salary, and the numbered release item that stays on your record. All of it is published by the Government of Canada across six places that never reference each other.

• 2026-09-08
  data

  Every rank page now says what it takes to leave that rank

  The professional development framework runs DP1 to DP5 with a named qualification at each stage — PLQ at DP2, the Intermediate Leadership Programme at DP3, the Joint Command and Staff Programme for officers. It is joined onto all 19 rank pages by tier, so the ladder on an occupation page now has the courses between the rungs attached to it.

• 2026-09-08
  correction

  Post Living Differential has been replaced

  The allowance adjusting for housing costs by posting is now the Canadian Forces Housing Differential, set across 20 pay levels crossed against location so that the lowest paid receive the most. The glossary carries PLD as an alias so the old name still finds the right entry.

• 2026-09-08
  feature

  A page for the questions nothing official answers

  The Forces publish 108 occupations separately. Nothing sorts them by how long the training runs, groups them by what the qualification is worth outside, or lists which trades a given school turns out. Comparing occupations does all three, plus which occupations are open only full-time or only part-time. It is a runtime join over data already on the site, so it stays current on its own.

• 2026-09-08
  data

  Every occupation now carries a training length and a civilian credential

  Both are filters on the trades page and facts on each occupation page. Training runs from three weeks for a dental officer to 69 for a signal technician, with a median of 21. Forty-four occupations publish no figure and are shown as such rather than estimated. The credential field says plainly which trades lead to a regulated licence, a Red Seal, a journeyman ticket, or nothing that travels — six have no civilian equivalent at all.

• 2026-09-07
  structure

  The rank descriptions were rewritten, all 57 of them

  Three files written at three different times in three different voices: the Army verbose, the Air Force telegraphic, the Navy somewhere between. They now read as one thing, and say what the rank actually involves rather than restating its place on a chart — what a lieutenant-colonel signs for, why a warrant officer lets a much younger officer command, and which ranks pay depends on entry plan rather than time served. Every pay figure was left untouched.

• 2026-09-07
  correction

  Master Corporal was described as a rank with command authority

  The description said it was the first rank carrying legal command authority. It is not a rank at all — it is an appointment, and the site says so on the rank page itself. The description now agrees with the rest of the site. The same correction applies to Master Sailor.

• 2026-09-07
  data

  The glossary went from 28 terms to 75

  Writing 108 occupation notes introduced roughly forty acronyms the site then used without explaining: NCMSTEP, SOTP, SEELM, CCFP(EM), BMOQ-Land, CFAT, EROC, FAcT, CPSP, AOPS, MCDV, JSS. All of them found nothing in search. Two groups were added for health services credentials and equipment programmes, and the gate now fails if a glossary entry links somewhere that does not exist.

• 2026-09-07
  data

  Bases and schools are searchable, and thirteen more of them exist

  Forty-five establishments were rendered at runtime and named nowhere in the markup, so site search found none of them — someone reading Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering in an occupation note and searching for it got nothing. They are indexed now. Thirteen schools the notes name were missing outright, among them the mapping school in Ottawa, the public affairs centre in Gatineau, Barker College, the two Fleet Diving Units and 1 Canadian Field Hospital. Eighty-six occupations now link to the school that qualifies them.

• 2026-09-07
  data

  Nine more platforms: the transport, training and auxiliary fleets

  The equipment file covered what fights and skipped what carries and teaches. Added: the CC-150 Polaris, CC-144 Challenger and CC-138 Twin Otter; the CT-156 Harvard II and CT-153 Juno that train every Canadian pilot, and the Future Aircrew Training programme replacing them; the Naval Large Tugs now entering service; HMCS Oriole, commissioned in 1954 and built in 1921; and the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, which is up to twelve boats.

• 2026-09-07
  correction

  Postal clerks qualify in Trenton, not Borden

  The bases data had the trade attached to the Canadian Forces Logistics Training Centre. The official listing puts the six-week course in Trenton. Corrected while writing the occupation note.

• 2026-09-07
  correction

  An occupation page had a capital letter in its address

  The careers API returns one occupation slug with capitals where every other is lower case, and the site used it verbatim as a file name. Local preview did not care; a case-sensitive host would have served a 404. Air Operations Officer now lives at the same lower-case address as the other 107.

• 2026-09-07
  data

  All 108 occupations now say what the official listing leaves out

  The note at the top of a trade page was written for 30 occupations; the other 78 had a blank where the useful part goes. Every one now carries a sourced note — the school and its location, how long the course actually runs, the entry credential you need before applying, and the honest civilian answer where there is not one. Each names its source and the date it was checked.

• 2026-09-07
  data

  Sixteen more platforms, and the trades that work on them

  The equipment file tracked flagship platforms only, which left the support fleet invisible: the Bison, TLAV, Coyote, BV 206, G Wagon, LSVW, HLVW and the Husky, Buffalo and Cougar route clearance set, plus the .50-cal, the C3 howitzer, the 81-mm mortar, the M72, the C20 and the Integrated Soldier System. Four more occupations now have kit listed and eleven existing ones have more of it.

• 2026-09-07
  correction

  The occupation notes were the hardest thing here to read

  The note at the top of each trade page was setting 139 characters to a line — nearly double the text beneath it — because the block was never given a width. It now reads at a normal measure, and so does everything else on the site.

• 2026-09-07
  correction

  The footer was making every page scroll sideways on a phone

  The footer link list did not wrap. It was written for three links and had grown to six, which pushed every page 113 pixels wider than a 360-pixel screen.

• 2026-09-07
  structure

  The site has its own typefaces

  Until now the design used whatever serif your device happened to own — Palatino on Windows, Iowan on a Mac, something generic elsewhere. Newsreader, Public Sans and IBM Plex Mono are now served by the site itself, so everyone sees the same thing, and no request goes to a font CDN.

• 2026-09-06
  feature

  How joining works, and a glossary

  Added a page walking the application through to trade-qualified, and a 28-term glossary that doubles as the site's search synonym table — 'sapper', 'sigs', 'BMQ' and 'MOSID' now find something.

• 2026-09-06
  data

  Reserve pay explained on every part-time occupation

  Sixty-odd occupations are open part-time while every figure here is Regular Force. The pay sections now explain Class A, B and C service and link the official Reserve table.

• 2026-09-06
  correction

  Reserve pay is no longer 85% of Regular Force pay

  That rule of thumb has been wrong since 2019, when the calculation changed to base pay plus the Military Factor — a rise of about 7.8%. The old figure is still widely repeated.

• 2026-09-06
  data

  Canadian Modular Assault Rifle moved from programme to contract

  Colt Canada, Kitchener, awarded March 2026 for up to 65,402 systems running to 2035, with 30,000 General Service rifles in the first phase. The entry previously read only 'Program'.

• 2026-09-06
  feature

  Thirty occupations now say what the official listing leaves out

  Where the training actually happens, what the job is made of day to day, and whether it leads to a civilian credential. Each note carries a source and the date it was last checked.

• 2026-09-06
  correction

  Master Corporal is an appointment, not a rank

  QR&O chapter 3 is explicit that a corporal may be appointed master corporal and that their rank remains corporal. The NATO code moved from OR-5 to OR-4, shared with Corporal, and the rank panel now says so.

• 2026-09-06
  correction

  Private (Basic) sits at OR-2, not OR-1

  Canada's non-commissioned ranks occupy OR-9 down to OR-2; OR-1 is unused. Corrected across all three elements.

• 2026-09-06
  structure

  Every occupation, item and rank has its own page

  165 pages generated from the data. The tools remain the way to browse; the pages are what can be linked to, cited and found. Old deep links hand over automatically.

• 2026-09-06
  structure

  Health Services added as the fourth element

  The site counted four elements and linked to three. Its 17 occupations, command structure and training establishments now have a page.