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White fixed-wing AVSS drone banking above a turquoise glacial lake in a snow-capped mountain valley

Canada · Police

ThinkOn And AVSS Put Canadian Drone Data On Canadian Soil, Off The Hyperscalers

ThinkOn and AVSS are hosting TAK on Canadian sovereign cloud, with live drone video piped in. The data residency case is real. The 'until now' is not.

Haye KestelooAug 104 min read

FPV freestyle drone carrying a GoPro action camera flying in front of the mist and rushing water of Niagara Falls

FPV

GoPro Flies 8K Over Niagara Falls and Leaves the Permit Out of the Description

GoPro's new Niagara Falls reel was shot on a MISSION 1 PRO strapped to FPV Evan's drone. The airspace is restricted on both sides of the border.

Haye KestelooAug 10

Wildfire

Canada Puts Drones And Thermal Imaging On The Wildfire Front Line

Prime Minister Mark Carney says drones and advanced thermal imaging are now part of Canada's national wildfire response, bringing DroneXL's thermal-drone fireline coverage into a G7 leader's public briefing for the first time.

Haye KestelooJul 19

Early DJI Investor Selling $108M London Property Portfolio Including Iconic Sky Pool Apartments

Counter-Drone

Cellebrite Locks Down SkySafe as Its Only Drone Forensics Partner, Betting Big on Counter-Drone Data

Cellebrite has become the exclusive digital forensics partner to SkySafe, expanding a relationship the two companies first built out through Cellebrite’s March 2026 acquisition of SCG Canada. The deal, announced Tuesday, ties Cellebrite’s mobile-device extraction platform directly into SkySafe’s drone detection and airspace intelligence feeds, giving investigators a single workflow that spans what

Haye KestelooJul 8

DJI

Canadian Drone Maker AVSS Hits 2,000 Systems Built This Year, Already Beating All of 2025

AVSS (Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions) has manufactured more than 2,000 drone components and systems so far in its current fiscal year, the Fredericton, New Brunswick company announced today. That figure already exceeds the company’s full-year production total from the previous fiscal year, with several months still left on the calendar. AVSS builds parachute recovery systems,…

Haye KestelooJul 7

Ukraine

Orqa Signs $150M CAD Canadian Drone Production Deal

Croatian FPV maker Orqa and Canadian defence firm Remote Robotic Systems signed a five-year, 150 million CAD partnership on June 25, 2026 in Toronto to build drones, artificial intelligence and counter-unmanned aircraft systems on Canadian soil. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic stood in the room while Orqa co-founder Ivan…

Rafael SuárezJul 1

Canada

Medicine Hat Lands Canada’s Top Student Drone Contest 2027

The Aerial Evolution Association of Canada named Medicine Hat, Alberta as the host city for the 18th annual AEAC Student Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Competition, scheduled for May 14 to 16, 2027. The choice keeps the country’s top university and college drone competition in the same southeast Alberta corridor that hosted the 2025 edition. The 2027…

Rafael SuárezJun 27

Mexico

Mexico Downs Drone Over Korea’s World Cup Training

A drone flew over South Korea’s closed World Cup training session in Guadalajara on June 17, and Mexican forces brought it down before the team ran its tactical drills. Coach Hong Myung-bo confirmed the sighting a day later and called it unfortunate, two days before his side faced co-host Mexico. Whether the drone was spying…

Rafael SuárezJun 21

Canada

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