Military drill leaves men shattered
A simulated active shooter exercise last November in the east‑end military base resulted in one man being brutalized so badly that a public hearing will be held.
Military police descended on workers on the base – non‑soldiers doing maintenance work – and one man was dragged out and had his clothes, boots and wallet taken away. (It’s mentioned in passing that this man was Black.) He and several others were off work afterwards from panic attacks.
(CP article, edited a little differently in English and French.)



DeWolf 11:35 on 2025-07-24 Permalink
“The employee stresses that he never imagined that he would experience such a situation in a National Defence establishment and that the military police member’s actions reminded him of certain barbaric acts he experienced in Rwanda in 1994.”
Yikes.
Orr 17:06 on 2025-07-24 Permalink
We often have nicknamed Canada’s Department of National Defence as the Department of National Disgrace, for reasons.