The Ombud recommended that, under the authority of the Minister, the DND immediately offer independent assessments to the LCAs who served in Afghanistan from 2006-2014 and who claim to have been ...

OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 22, 2025 /CNW/ - The Department of National Defence (DND) and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Ombud has released a report titled Standing together: Ensuring fair treatment for Canadian ...

But within days of their arrival in Afghanistan, Hynes found they worked mostly outside of the relative safety of the Kandahar Airfield. Blair said DND has made changes to ensure greater limits to ...

Jalaluddin Sayah was one of the last Canadians to return from Afghanistan when Canada's 12-year mission ended in 2014. He served for four years as a language and cultural adviser for the Canadian ...

Department of National Defence spokesperson Alex Tétreault told the Ottawa Citizen that DND expected the first ... has affected troops who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is also problem ...

There’s a distinct vibe of Plants Vs Zombies to 'Hold Back the Dead', a free Dungeons and Dragons adventure releasing in ...

Since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the U.S. State Department and USAID continued to fund key sectors ...

Night - Cloudy with a 54% chance of precipitation. Winds N. The overnight low will be 36 °F (2.2 °C). Cloudy with a high of 40 °F (4.4 °C) and a 70% chance of precipitation. Winds variable ...

A group of former language and cultural advisers for the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan are seen protesting on Parliament Hill last year. Many of the advisers — and the Defence Ministry's ...

The LCAs volunteered and continued on the mission because they wanted to help Afghanistan and they felt ... Blair wrote that DND continued to monitor the situation and “continues to support ...

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...

A wife working to bring her husband home from years of wrongful detainment in Afghanistan saw heartening progress over the weekend. After traveling to Mar-a-Lago with no promise that anyone with ...