Canada

Canadian drone company AVSS says it has already built more than 2,000 drone components and systems this fiscal year, surpassing its entire production total from the previous year with several months still remaining.

As governments and enterprise customers across North America continue searching for alternatives to Chinese-made drones, Canadian drone company Draganfly and Japanese drone maker ACSL are teaming up to bring a new NDAA-compliant drone option to Canada.

Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions (AVSS) is pushing drone utility into an explosive new territory, literally. The Canadian drone safety company has just wrapped up real-world testing of a system designed to trigger avalanches remotely, using drones to drop explosives in controlled conditions.

When tens of thousands of fans gather under one roof, security doesn’t just stop at the doors; it extends to the skies above. That was exactly the case at Canada’s biggest night in music, the JUNO Awards, where a quiet but critical layer of anti-drone protection was keeping watch overhead.

A 71-year-old Chinese-born Canadian citizen has been deported from the United States after pleading guilty to using his DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone to capture hundreds of unauthorized images of Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida.

For nearly 80 years, avalanche safety crews in Canada have battled unstable snow with World War II artillery, helicopter drops, and risky ground missions. Now, a Canadian drone company says it has a safer, faster, and more precise way to get the job done — and the government just gave it the green light.

A 71-year-old Canadian man who flew a DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone over restricted military areas at Cape Canaveral has pleaded guilty to federal charges, offering new details into how an ordinary tourist used high-end consumer drone tech to breach some of America’s most secure airspace.

A drone helping police find a missing person recently became the target of a wild firework attack — and now one man is facing serious charges.

The fallout from Canada Soccer’s drone-spying scandal at the Paris Olympics has reached a conclusion — at least for former coach John Herdman. After an independent disciplinary committee hearing, Herdman has received a written admonishment, closing a controversial chapter in his career.

In a twist that sounds like a plot from a spy novel, a 71-year-old Canadian tourist’s drone hobby has landed him in serious legal trouble. Meet Xiao Guang Pan from Brampton, Ontario, who now faces charges for flying his drone over the highly sensitive Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida.

Starting this fall, Canada will embrace groundbreaking updates to its drone regulations, ushering in a new era for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. These changes mark a departure from the labor-intensive, case-by-case approval process previously required by Transport Canada, paving the way for greater accessibility to low-risk BVLOS flights across the country.

Canada is ramping up its border surveillance efforts with plans to expand its use of drones and other technologies, addressing security concerns raised by US President-elect Donald Trump. This move comes as Trump threatens to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian imports, citing issues such as illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking.

In an unexpected twist during their headlining performance at a concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadian rock band Arkells found themselves intrigued by an unauthorized drone that filmed their set. The Juno-winning group, performing at the Burt Block Party last weekend, spotted the drone hovering dangerously close to the stage, capturing what lead singer Max Kerman believes could be “kind of cool” footage.

In a landmark case, a Canadian film company and its drone pilot have been slapped with a $22,500 fine for operating a drone too close to a pod of Northern Resident Killer Whales (NRKWs) off Vancouver Island. This is the first time a fine was issued in Canada for the unlawful use of a drone to capture killer whale footage.

The Canadian women’s soccer team may have advanced to the knockout stage at the Paris 2024 Olympics with a 1-0 win over Colombia, but its infamous drone-spying scandal now threatens to spread beyond the Olympics with officials admitting in evidence to FIFA that spying on opponents was routinely done.

Canada has ordered the dissolution of anti-drone solutions company Bluvec Technologies on national security grounds. Bluvec has developed a portable solution to detect drones and drone operators in real-time.

As extreme-right Republican legislators continue blocking passage of additional US aid to Ukraine, Canada has stepped up alongside European countries and the UK to promise quick delivery of thousands of drones to Kyiv for its nearly two-year defensive battle against Russia’s invasion.

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced the extension of its ground-breaking UAV transportation activities from and around Edmonton International Airport – which at its launch was among the world’s first drone services at a major aviation platform, according to the firm, and the first in Canada.

Diversified drone hardware and services company Volatus Aerospace is expanding on what had already been a steady stream of new business contracts in its domestic Canadian market with a deal in the US worth up to $60 million providing aerial infrastructure inspections for a major utility firm.

Aerial transport and services company Drone Delivery Canada has won work with a Canadian government defense agency for an initial series of trials of the startup’s Canary UAV, which if successful could lead to an extension of the relationship.

Canadian next-generation terrestrial and aerial vehicle specialist InDro Robotics has joined the effort to battle wildfires that have been punishing the nation for weeks with data-gathering drone deployments to assist firefighters in British Columbia.