CFB Edmonton

Wong was from Edmonton and a member of the loyal Edmonton regiment.

The other three were all members of 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian infantry based at Edmonton Garrison.

Carney talked today about the fact that they gave their lives in service of this country and now the responsibility falls to the Government of Canada and the country of Canada.

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The Government of Canada and Global News articles that is on the screen reports that the federal government's latest message goes beyond energy.

On October 7th, Defense Minister David McGuinty appeared alongside Premier Smith at CFB Edmonton.

McGuinty highlighted approximately $8 billion in ongoing military investments across Alberta, including significant projects at Edmonton and Cold Lake.

These are existing defense commitments, not $8 billion in newly announced referendum funding.

And now let's dive in to today's conversation.

On the tenth of September, twenty twenty-six, the Canadian Army officially stood up, the First Canadian Division at CFB Edmonton, replacing its decades-old regional structure with purpose-driven divisions under the policy framework Inflection Point twenty twenty-five.

The restructuring centralizes all regular force combat brigades nationwide, alongside newly created artillery, sustainment, and light infantry formations under a single deployable maneuver division.

Tracing its history to nineteen fifteen, at one point being led by none other than Sir Arthur Currie, the reactivated First Division is designed to move the army away from small-scale contribution warfare toward generating full division-level combat power for major operations.