Articles by Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press

Sep 18 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of third-party groups, cybersecurity and social media in the campaign. The Organization for Security and Economic Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, monitored Canada's federal election in 2015 and […]

Sep 18 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of third-party groups, cybersecurity and social media in the campaign. The Organization for Security and Economic Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, monitored Canada's federal election in 2015 and […]

Sep 18 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — An international body that specializes in monitoring elections is skipping this year's Canadian election due to limited resources despite questions and potential concerns about the role of third-party groups, cybersecurity and social media in the campaign. The Organization for Security and Economic Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, monitored Canada's federal election in 2015 and […]

Sep 17 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh continued his push to win progressive votes on Tuesday by promising an NDP government would invest billions of dollars in affordable housing to help Canadians struggling to make ends meet. The commitment was the NDP's latest pledge to expand social programs. The party's promises have included universal pharmacare and free tuition […]

Sep 17 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh continued his push to win progressive votes on Tuesday by promising an NDP government would invest billions of dollars in affordable housing to help Canadians struggling to make ends meet. The commitment was the NDP's latest pledge to expand social programs. The party's promises have included universal pharmacare and free tuition […]

Sep 17 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh continued his push to win progressive votes on Tuesday by promising an NDP government would invest billions of dollars in affordable housing to help Canadians struggling to make ends meet. The commitment was the NDP's latest pledge to expand social programs. The party's promises have included universal pharmacare and free tuition […]

Sep 17 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Military police have laid sexual-assault charges against two senior members of the Canadian Armed Forces, including a lieutenant-colonel working as a reservist with the Canadian Armed Forces' recruiting group in Ontario. Lt.-Col. Daniel Mainguy is facing one charge of sexual assault and another of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline […]

Sep 17 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Military police have laid sexual-assault charges against two senior members of the Canadian Armed Forces, including a lieutenant-colonel working as a reservist with the Canadian Armed Forces' recruiting group in Ontario. Lt.-Col. Daniel Mainguy is facing one charge of sexual assault and another of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline […]

Sep 16 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Military police have laid sexual-assault charges against two senior members of the Canadian Armed Forces, including a lieutenant-colonel working as a reservist with the Canadian Armed Forces' recruiting group in Ontario. Lt.-Col. Daniel Mainguy is facing one charge of sexual assault and another of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline […]

Sep 10 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — More information is needed about perpetrators of sexual assaults and other sexual misconduct in the military if the Canadian Armed Forces wants to eliminate such behaviour from the ranks, says the head of the military's sexual-misconduct response centre. "If we're going to address this problem writ large, we have to look at every part […]

Sep 10 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — More information is needed about perpetrators of sexual assaults and other sexual misconduct in the military if the Canadian Armed Forces wants to eliminate such behaviour from the ranks, says the head of the military's sexual-misconduct response centre. "If we're going to address this problem writ large, we have to look at every part […]

Sep 6 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Case managers assigned to assist Canada's most severely disabled veterans say they are being forced to spend more time filling out paperwork than helping former service members. The complaint is in an internal review by Veterans Affairs Canada, which found most case managers spend more than half of each working day filling out required […]

Sep 6 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Case managers assigned to assist Canada's most severely disabled veterans say they are being forced to spend more time filling out paperwork than helping former service members. The complaint is in an internal review by Veterans Affairs Canada, which found most case managers spend more than half of each working day filling out required […]

Sep 6 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Case managers assigned to assist Canada's most severely disabled veterans say they are being forced to spend more time filling out paperwork than helping former service members. The complaint is in an internal review by Veterans Affairs Canada, which found most case managers spend more than half of each working day filling out required […]

Sep 5 2019 — Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The federal government's effort to rein in the cost of reimbursing veterans for their medical marijuana appears to have failed as new figures show Ottawa shelled out a record $75 million in the last fiscal year. And that is only the beginning: the Veterans Affairs Canada figures show the government is on track […]