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Sep 27, 2026
Anne MetzNARRATOR
He joined the CAF in July 2017 and released in June 2022 at the rank of corporal, He served as an infantry soldier with Princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry and did not deploy during his service said Andre and pool in.
Anne MetzNARRATOR
A spokesperson for the Department of National Defense on Thursday Belleville police released a video of words ambush on Constable Jeff Smith, who he engaged in a gunfight for three minutes.
Anne MetzNARRATOR
Police said he was armed with a shotgun, ammunition, and gasoline and was prepared to kill dozens of worshipers at the synagogue.
Anne MetzNARRATOR
Constable Mike McCurdy arrived on the scene and returned fire, stopping the attack.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
The Special Investigations Unit confirmed that Sean Ward died on Monday night and said an autopsy will be performed Wednesday in Kingston.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
News of Ward's death came as the Department of National Defense said its records show that a former Canadian Armed Forces member with the same name matches the description of the suspect.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
He joined the CAF in July of 2017 and released in June 2022 at the rank of corporal.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
He served as an infantry soldier with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and did not deploy during his service, National Defense Spokesperson Andrea Ann Poulin wrote in an email to the Canadian press.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
Ward, age 29, was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition after exchange of gunfire with a Belleville officer who was stationed outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
About two dozen people were inside the synagogue to mark the start of Yom Kippur, but none of them were injured in the shootout.
Wendy GilmourGUEST
And at the end of the day, it's the responsibility of governments to think through all scenarios and ensure that we are prepared.
Matt GallowayHOST
The retired Lieutenant General Andrew Leslie, uh, was head of the section of the Defense Department that oversees these sorts of plans and told CBC News in the ...
Matt GallowayHOST
These are his words: "In the context of the threats that the White House has issued against Canada, those would've probably resulted in a heightened focus." And he's talking about the 51st state as well as maps that the president keeps putting up on social media showing Canada as part of the United States.
Matt GallowayHOST
How much planning should the military put into this possibility, even if it is a remote possibility?
Matt GallowayHOST
What might they be preparing for?
Wendy GilmourGUEST
D- do you know, it ...
Wendy GilmourGUEST
I mean, I, I hesitate to sort of predict what is happening inside the Defense Department.
Wendy GilmourGUEST
Obviously I'm not, I'm not there.
Jen GersonHOST
I just want to have friendly, positive ties with this little poison pill group.
Jen GersonHOST
buried in every Canadian's lizard brain, right? David Puglisi for the Ottawa Citizen actually had a piece that came out, I think, last week highlighting somebody who worked for D&D who was on leave with a, I think, tank.
Jen GersonHOST
And she had been making a point of writing these fairly egregious op-eds in places like the Hill Times.
Jen GersonHOST
basically just parroting the american position on everything that's happening right um not because she was malicious or because i don't think she was on and david's um piece kind of pointed out that she was one of the first registers on the new foreign agent registry because she had taken a trip from the state department um shortly after she was fired from dnd and she's suing dnd for wrongful dismissal and things of that nature i don't know the
Jen GersonHOST
To me, that was a problem.
Jen GersonHOST
Her op-eds were clearly indicative of a problem.
Jen GersonHOST
I don't want a Canadian D&D official at a high level.
Matt GurneyHOST
Yeah.
Tamara LawrenceGUEST
Well, the major reason is because the military is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the federal government.
Tamara LawrenceGUEST
So the Canadian Armed Forces, the Department of National Defense uses more fossil fuel than any other department.
Tamara LawrenceGUEST
The Department of National Defense is not only the largest consumer of fossil fuel, it's the largest landholder in the country, and it's the largest employer.
Tamara LawrenceGUEST
So it has huge impacts.
Tamara LawrenceGUEST
It's also the largest consumer of hazardous material and producer of hazardous waste.
RudyHOST
Communist Chinese troops observed military exercises on Canadian soil.
RudyHOST
The Department of National Defense, which Anand was minister of in the 2023 case, has confirmed the Chinese People's Liberation Army was indeed on Canadian soil in February of 2018 for the Canadian Armed Forces winter training exercises.
RudyHOST
Okay.
RudyHOST
So, but this interplay of both of the armed forces started in 2013.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it changed to kike killer because you can't obviously have that on there.
Shien DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
Ward was with the Canadian Armed Forces from 2017 until he was released in 2022, according to the Department of National Defense.
Shien DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
This summer, his friend noticed something about him changed.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It just went from not being able to find work to, like, blaming the immigrants kind of thing.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
CBC is not naming him due to fears he will lose his job.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
Ward was with the Canadian Armed Forces from 2017 until he was released in 2022, according to the Department of National Defense.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
This summer, his friend noticed something about him changed.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It just went from not being able to find work to, like, blaming the immigrants kind of thing.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
CBC is not naming him due to fears he will lose his job.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
Ward was with the Canadian Armed Forces from twenty seventeen until he was released in twenty twenty-two, according to the Department of National Defense.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
This summer, his friend noticed something about him changed.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It just went from not being able to find work to, like, blaming the immigrants kind of thing.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
CBC is not naming him due to fears he will lose his job.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
Ward was with the Canadian Armed Forces from twenty seventeen until he was released in twenty twenty-two, according to the Department of National Defense.
Shianne DesjardinsCORRESPONDENT
This summer, his friend noticed something about him changed.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It just went from not being able to find work to, like, blaming the immigrants kind of thing.
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