Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer,scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada,the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health,emergency preparedness and response,and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
Rick J. Hillier is a retired Canadian Forces general,who served as the chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) from 4 February 2005 to 1 July 2008. He previously served as the chief of the Land Staff from 30 May 2003 until his promotion to CDS.
The Canadian Afghan detainee issue concerns Government of Canada or the Canadian Forces (CF) knowledge of abusive treatment of detainees in Afghanistan. The abuse occurred after Afghans were detained by Canadian Forces,and subsequently transferred to the Afghan National Army (ANA) or the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) during the War in Afghanistan. The issue has sparked heated debate since Article 12 of the Third Geneva Convention states that "the Detaining Power [Canada] is responsible for the treatment given [to prisoners of war]". If the allegations of torture are true it would mean Canada is guilty of war crimes.
The Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada is a Canadian federal government independent,quasi-judicial body,established by the Parliament of Canada in December 1999.
David Russell Williams is a Canadian serial rapist,murderer and former colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is currently serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years for two murders,committed in November 2009 and January 2010.
Sexual assault in the Canadian Armed Forces has been a pervasive issue affecting women,youth,and men in the Canadian Forces and Canadian Cadet Organizations. Canadian Forces sexual assault cases have been extensively reported in national Canadian news media. The scope and depth of the sexual assault problem first came to light in 1998,when Maclean's magazine broke the story. Individual cases continued to be reported. The issue became a national focus again when MacLean's magazine published another exposéexploring the extent of rape culture in Canada's military.
General Jonathan Holbert Vance is a retired Canadian Forces officer who served as a general in the Canadian Army. Vance was the chief of the Defence Staff from 2015 to 2021.
Harjit Singh Sajjan is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of emergency preparedness and the president of the Privy Council since July 26,2023. A member of the Liberal Party,Sajjan represents the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver South in the House of Commons,taking office as member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 election.
Marie Annabelle Jennie Carignan is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) since July 2024. Born in Quebec,she is bilingual and graduated as a military engineer from the CAF’s Royal Military College Saint-Jean. She served as an officer in combat engineering regiments in various Canadian military actions in the 1990s and 2000s including:the Golan Heights;Bosnia;and Afghanistan. As a full colonel,Carignan became Commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 2013.
Sexual harassment in the military is unwanted sexual behaviour experienced as threatening,offensive,or otherwise upsetting,which occurs in a military setting.
Anita Indira Anand is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as the president of the Treasury Board since July 2023. She has represented the riding of Oakville in the House of Commons since the 2019 federal election,sitting as a member of the Liberal Party.
Peter Lambrinakos is a Canadian police officer and corporate security executive,currently serving as the first Chief of Police of the VIA Rail Canada Police Service and additionally as VIA Rail Canada’s Chief of Corporate Security since March 2015. He has held various senior positions leading the Organized Crime,Major Crime,Economic Crime and Intelligence units with the Montreal Police Service.
COVID-19 vaccination in Canada is an ongoing,intergovernmental effort coordinated between the bodies responsible in the Government of Canada to acquire and distribute vaccines to individual provincial and territorial governments who in turn administer authorized COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Provinces have worked with local municipal governments,hospital systems,family doctors and independently owned pharmacies to aid in part,or in full with vaccination rollout. The vaccination effort in full is the largest such immunization effort in the nation's history. The vaccination effort began December 14,2020,and is currently ongoing.
Vaccine Hunters Canada was a Canadian volunteer-run nonprofit organization with a mandate of "helping eligible Canadians find vaccines" during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The group was involved in helping Canadians navigate various booking systems and their eligibility requirements,and providing residents with information such as appointment and vaccine availability at mass-vaccination sites,hospitals,pharmacies,family doctors and pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics involved in the Canadian rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. The group used its website,Twitter,Discord and its Facebook page to communicate information to the general population. In March 2022,exactly one year after its launch,Vaccine Hunters Canada announced that it would be closing its operations.
Krista Brodie is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer serving as a brigadier general in the Canadian Army. She is currently serving as the Public Health Agency of Canada's (PHAC) vice president of logistics and operations leading the federal government's COVID-19 vaccination distribution program.
Kevin Vuong is a Canadian politician who is the member of Parliament (MP) for Spadina—Fort York. Elected in the 2021 federal election,he sits as an Independent,having been dropped as a Liberal candidate days before the election.
COVID-19 vaccination in Ontario began in December 2020,when the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were administered. In February 2021,shipments for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines increased significantly. By May 2021,over 50 percent of Ontarians had received their first dose. By the beginning of 2022,over 80 percent of Ontarians had received their first dose.
Trevor John Cadieu is a retired senior Canadian military officer. He reached the rank of lieutenant general and was slated to become army commander,but released from the military following allegations of sexual misconduct almost 30 years before,and after months of delay in court proceedings. Cadieu maintained the allegations were false but needed to be investigated thoroughly to expose the truth. In 2022,he travelled to Ukraine to join the fight against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In October 2023,the charges were stayed by an Ontario judge,ruling that unreasonable delays by military police to disclose information to Cadieu and another accused party led to unreasonable delay in the trial.
Junior ice hockey players have been the subject of sexual assault investigations by police fifteen times since 1989. In 2022,Police were investigating three sexual assault allegations that happened in 2003 and the 2018 Hockey Canada controversy and sexual assault.
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