Breakout Educational Network

10/22/2025

An important policy proposal to renew the Reserve Army, improve officer education and strengthen the civil-military link was recently published in SITREP, the magazine of the Royal Canadian Military Institute. The authors were Michael Goodspeed, Paul Taillon and Robert Roy.
See the link at https://breakouteducationalnetwork.com/

05/01/2023

Breakout Educational Network in association with the Balsillie School of International Studies announces the release of
Managing Security and Defence in the 2020s.
Edited by Anne Fitz-Gerald and Craig Stone.

05/31/2022

The Canadian National Leadership Program is an answer to the Arbour Report's recommendations. The CNLP already exists at 4 universities and 3 colleges. Breakout is attending in Ottawa to promote the program.

11/11/2021

Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute (MI) partners with Royal Canadian Navy to launch the Civil Military Leadership Program Initiative. Marine Institute Memorial University of Newfoundland

Memorial University's Fisheries and Marine Institute (MI) partners with Royal Canadian Navy to launch the Civil Military Leadership Program Initiative. Rear-Admiral Chris Sutherland, deputy commander, RCN, and Dr. Robert Shea, vice-president (Marine Institute) pro tempore, signed an MOU via video…

11/11/2020

Fanshawe College of London Ontario announced the launch of its Military Connected Campus on Monday Nov 9, 2020.

https://breakouteducationalnetwork.com/2020/11/11/fanshawe-college-announces-launch-of-military-connected-campus/

07/31/2018

Breakout Educational Networks is bringing “Leadership, Citizenship and Nation-Building” skills and resources to campus with the Canadian National Leadership Program, CNLP. Our goal is to make this a national project, available to students across the country.

  

02/16/2018

An hour-long program on the lost tradition of Canadian universities hosting leadership training for Canadian Forces officers.

In a bygone era, the bells would ring at Canadian universities in tribute to students who received military training on campus. The program had a modest begi...

09/21/2017

We love this picture and the spirit at Canadian Forces Base Borden, keep on spreading the spirit, Canada!



Nous aimons beaucoup cette photo et l’esprit à la Base des Forces canadiennes Borden! Continuez à répandre l’esprit, Canada!

08/17/2017

University-based officer training programs in other countries continue to this day. In Britain, every year hundreds of students elect to pass through the Officer Training Corps, receiving training in personal and group leadership, military skills, and outdoor activities. Today, the OTC is considered the best club on campus, combining learning, sports and social connections often lasting a lifetime.

This is "For Queen & Country" by Robert Roy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

07/27/2017

In a bygone era, the bells would ring at Canadian universities in tribute to students who received military training on campus. The program had a modest beginning at McGill University in 1912, but at its height in the mid-1950s it was training 3000 officer cadets in some 60 reserve units at 35 universities across Canada. Then, suddenly, the program was cancelled. A Canadian success story thrown away. https://vimeo.com/81035828

This is "No Country for Young Men" by Robert Roy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

05/18/2017

Breakout's initial research spawned the production of Save My Lake, a documentary for CBC’s flagship nature strand The Nature of Things, narrated by David Suzuki and produced by our sister company, Stornoway Productions. Watched by 1.5 million Canadians, an incredible number for a science documentary, the program uncovered causes behind the mysterious slow death of Netley marsh and neighbouring Lake Winnipeg, one of the largest lakes in the world. The film was a wake up call for the community and government in Manitoba and was instrumental in changing laws and attitudes to put Netley-Libau Marsh and Lake Winnipeg back on the path to recovery.

Lake Winnipeg is a 25,000 sq/ km "inland sea". It is bigger than Lake Ontario and about the same size as Lake Erie -- and it is in deep trouble. This once pr...

02/13/2017

Cultural change takes time and the logical place to start is with the young people of Canada, who have been excluded from the policy process and poorly prepared to take on the leadership responsibilities they will inherit.

Following is the submission made to the Defence Policy Review by Paul Chapin and Rob Roy. Paul is the executive editor of TheVimyReport.com and a former director general for international security at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa. Rob is an award winning documentary producer whose rece...