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Sep 2023
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Sexual misconduct crisis rages on in Can...

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One of Canada’s first military sexual assault cases to be transferred to a civilian court since late 2021 will never go to trial because it took too long to get there. Is this a foreshadowing of what’s to come, in addressing the Canadian Armed Forces’ decades-long sexual misconduct crisis?


CBC senior reporter Ashley Burke explains. 

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