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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press The federal government is working on a new counselling program for victims of military sexual misconduct – an effort under way after advocates and experts called on Ottawa to offer what is known as peer support. During recent testimony before the House of Commons defence committee, Denise Pre...

Feds urged to create body to monitor military's handling of sexual misconduct by Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press Posted Feb 22, 2021 4:00 am EDT Last Updated Feb 22, 2021 at 4:11 am EDT OTTAWA — The Canadian military needs outside oversight to deal with a pattern of failure to stop sexual misconduct in the ranks, several experts on the problem say. “You have protracted media coverage of this issue and you see a number of articles go out, and then you see a zero-tolerance statement and then it kind of dies down,” said Megan MacKenzie, who studies military sexual misconduct at Simon Fr...

NEWSLETTER The House of Commons takes a stand on the G-word Politics Insider for Feb. 22: The House votes on whether to call China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide,' François Legault appears to have vanquished the decades-old political order in Quebec, and Justin Trudeau gears up for his first meeting with Joe Biden Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s CORRECTION, Feb. 22, 2021: The newsletter version of this post, which is sent to Politics Insiders subscribers, incorrectly referred to the accusations against former chief of the defence staff Jonathan Vance. He is facing accusations o...

OTTAWA — Retired Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps is criticizing the Canadian Armed Forces for not having done more to address sexual misconduct, as experts call for more independent oversight of the military to finally root such behaviour from the ranks. Deschamps told a parliamentary committee Monday that she had expected more progress from the military since she issued an explosive report in 2015 detailing a highly sexualized culture in...