CFB Gagetown

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.

The Trudeau government is tapping a former army officer, who served in Afghanistan and commanded Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick, as Canada's new veterans' ombudsman.

The Department of National Defence will spend $36 million on new training facilities for identifying and disposing of improvised explosive devices and other explosive ordinance.