{"id":541309,"date":"2026-03-17T01:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:27:15","slug":"latest-federal-announcement-to-put-5-wing-goose-bay-at-forefront-of-arctic-defence-labrador-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541309\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Federal Announcement to Put 5 Wing Goose Bay at Forefront of Arctic Defence: Labrador MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-wing-goose-bay-1.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Latest Federal Announcement to Put 5 Wing Goose Bay at Forefront of Arctic Defence: Labrador MP\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The MP for Labrador says funding coming to upgrade 5 Wing Goose Bay will put the base at the forefront of Canada\u2019s efforts in protecting Arctic sovereignty. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa is pumping $35 billion into infrastructure and modernization of four military bases in Canada\u2019s north \u2013 including Goose Bay. <\/p>\n<p>The Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay has dubbed the announcement as \u201chistoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MP Phillip Earle says more details are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the next very short while we\u2019ll be making announcements on the wing that will further define the role that Goose Bay will play, what these investments will look like and the timelines to get the work completed so that we can continue to do the great work that we\u2019ve been doing for a long time,\u201d he told the Tim Powers Show on VOCM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The MP for Labrador says funding coming to upgrade 5 Wing Goose Bay will put the base&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-541309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}