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(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMAMRY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North York, Canada - 20 July 2026
1. Close of woman working at sewing machine
2. Wuxly founder and CEO, James Yurichuk, holding helmet cover, UPSOUND (English):
“So these are Canadian-made helmet covers. It’s a work in progress right now, see all these threads need trimming down, but there’s a lot of engineering - here’s a complete garment - a lot of engineering goes into here, you see the quality.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mississauga, Canada - 20 July 2026
3. SOUNDBITE (English) James Yurichuk, Wuxly founder and CEO:
++PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 AND 5++
“We're certainly excited to hear about Prime Minister Carney's D.I.S. Strategy and the defense boom. We're seeing it quite evident at all the events we're at. Every defense show sold out. Lots of new companies and industries coming into the industry, getting involved, the banks, finance. We also implore them to look at the clothing systems. This is so important. There's a lot of innovation that can create advantage in the North, and with the Arctic region being so important, we've got to clothe our soldiers properly.”
4. Close of jacket pocket
5. Various of Wuxly employee trying on military jacket
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kleinburg, Canada - 13 July 2026
6. Various of Volatus drone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vaughan, Canada - 13 July 2026
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Glen Lynch, Volatus CEO:
++PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8 AND 9++
“The objective is to develop the technologies that the Canadian Armed Forces needs, which are also including kinetic products, because those are required and they have to be built in Canada. So the FPV, what they call kamikaze type drones, we have some products for that. We have some interceptor drones. But largely, if you said, where do you focus as a company? We focus on things that are truly dual use, which means we can apply them on the commercial side, we can also deploy them on the defense side. So we're really, we try to meet all of the requirements of the Canadian Armed Forces.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kleinburg, Canada - 13 July 2026
8. Volatus workers preparing heavy lift drone for test
9. Close of propeller
STORYLINE:
A worker feeds white camouflage fabric through a sewing machine.
Velcro strips are carefully attached to the material, specially designed to blend in in Arctic settings.
This garment factory in a suburban Toronto industrial park is producing helmet covers for the Canadian military.
The team are assembling uniforms for Wuxly, a luxury parka maker that is among a flurry of Canadian companies branching into defense contracting.
“It’s a work in progress right now, says James Yurichuck, Wuxly’s founder, as he turns over one of the helmet covers.”
“See all these threads need trimming down, but there’s a lot of engineering.”
As Canadian military spending surges, others are developing remote sensors for the country's vast Arctic region, making drones to resupply soldiers, and building autonomous robots.
The boom in the defense sector reflects Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's vow to strengthen the country's economic self-sufficiency amid fraying relations with Washington, including a fresh escalation this week with new rounds of tariffs.
Canadian startups and established companies, alongside firms in Europe, are set to benefit from tens of billions of dollars in extra defense funding, driven partly by pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to contribute more to NATO.
A defense industrial strategy released earlier this year by Carney earmarks an additional $60 billion in funding over the next five years.
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(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMAMRY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North York, Canada - 20 July 2026
1. Close of woman working at sewing machine
2. Wuxly founder and CEO, James Yurichuk, holding helmet cover, UPSOUND (English):
“So these are Canadian-made helmet covers. It’s a work in progress right now, see all these threads need trimming down, but there’s a lot of engineering - here’s a complete garment - a lot of engineering goes into here, you see the quality.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mississauga, Canada - 20 July 2026
3. SOUNDBITE (English) James Yurichuk, Wuxly founder and CEO:
++PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 AND 5++
“We're certainly excited to hear about Prime Minister Carney's D.I.S. Strategy and the defense boom. We're seeing it quite evident at all the events we're at. Every defense show sold out. Lots of new companies and industries coming into the industry, getting involved, the banks, finance. We also implore them to look at the clothing systems. This is so important. There's a lot of innovation that can create advantage in the North, and with the Arctic region being so important, we've got to clothe our soldiers properly.”
4. Close of jacket pocket
5. Various of Wuxly employee trying on military jacket
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kleinburg, Canada - 13 July 2026
6. Various of Volatus drone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vaughan, Canada - 13 July 2026
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Glen Lynch, Volatus CEO:
++PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8 AND 9++
“The objective is to develop the technologies that the Canadian Armed Forces needs, which are also including kinetic products, because those are required and they have to be built in Canada. So the FPV, what they call kamikaze type drones, we have some products for that. We have some interceptor drones. But largely, if you said, where do you focus as a company? We focus on things that are truly dual use, which means we can apply them on the commercial side, we can also deploy them on the defense side. So we're really, we try to meet all of the requirements of the Canadian Armed Forces.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kleinburg, Canada - 13 July 2026
8. Volatus workers preparing heavy lift drone for test
9. Close of propeller
STORYLINE:
A worker feeds white camouflage fabric through a sewing machine.
Velcro strips are carefully attached to the material, specially designed to blend in in Arctic settings.
This garment factory in a suburban Toronto industrial park is producing helmet covers for the Canadian military.
The team are assembling uniforms for Wuxly, a luxury parka maker that is among a flurry of Canadian companies branching into defense contracting.
“It’s a work in progress right now, says James Yurichuck, Wuxly’s founder, as he turns over one of the helmet covers.”
“See all these threads need trimming down, but there’s a lot of engineering.”
As Canadian military spending surges, others are developing remote sensors for the country's vast Arctic region, making drones to resupply soldiers, and building autonomous robots.
The boom in the defense sector reflects Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's vow to strengthen the country's economic self-sufficiency amid fraying relations with Washington, including a fresh escalation this week with new rounds of tariffs.
Canadian startups and established companies, alongside firms in Europe, are set to benefit from tens of billions of dollars in extra defense funding, driven partly by pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to contribute more to NATO.
A defense industrial strategy released earlier this year by Carney earmarks an additional $60 billion in funding over the next five years.
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