Allegations about Vance circulated at NATO HQ in 2014, but no police investigation was conducted: documents The documents provide a rare view into how the senior leadership reacted when concerns were first raised about Vance.
Author of the article: David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date: Jun 01, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 5 minute read Canada s former chief of defence staff, Jon Vance Photo by Matthew Fisher /Postmedia
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The Canadian Forces leadership first heard allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Gen. Jon Vance in the fall of 2014, but did not ask for a military police investigation.
Instead, officers discussed trying to dispel the stories circulating about Vance at a NATO headquarters in Italy, according to Canadian Forces documents obtained by this newspaper.
First Published: 1:32 PM PDT, June 1, 2021
The discovery in interior British Columbia last month is leading to renewed trauma, grief and calls for accountability among Indigenous communities across the country.
Flags across Canada are being flown at half-mast after 215 bodies of Indigenous children were discovered last month buried near a former British Columbia residential school, a church-run education system in operation for more than 100 years that forced kids as young as 3 years old from their families and communities for the purpose of assimilation.
Since the discovery, prayer vigils and memorials led by Indigenous leaders from different bands have sprung up both locally and across the country. Mi kmaw jingle dancers performed Monday morning across the country in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and hundreds of children’s shoes, moccasins and stuffed animals were left on the steps of the legislature building in nearby Saskatchewan.
Upwards of 100 people gathered Monday evening to place tiny shoes on the steps of St. Columbkille Cathedral in Pembroke, creating a memorial for the 215…