Federal government launching commission to probe systemic abuse in sports
The federal government is launching a three-person commission in the new year to investigate systemic abuse and human rights violations in Canadian sports.
"I absolutely think this is a systemic problem," Qualtrough told CBC News in an interview. "I think it is a crisis.
"We're dealing with a complex array of abuse, harassment, discrimination [and] normalized behaviour that is very inappropriate."
Assiniboia, Sask., man faces 13 charges after RCMP investigation into sexual assaults
A man from Assiniboia, Sask., whose home was a licensed home daycare, is facing 13 total sex crime charges after an investigation into several sexual assaults of minors that allegedly occurred years ago, RCMP say.
Former Sask. hockey coach found guilty of sexual assault and assault
Former Saskatchewan junior hockey coach Bernard (Bernie) Lynch was found guilty by a Regina Court of King’s Bench judge on Friday of sexual assault and assault stemming from incidents that took place in August of 1988.
Bonnie Robichaud's ordeal started in the late 1970s when she got a unionized job as a cleaner on a military base in Ontario, and a Department of National Defence employee began sexually harassing her.
Her complaint eventually reached the Supreme Court of Canada, and in 1987 it set a precedent requiring employers to provide workplaces free of harassment and discrimination.
She says things are different now. But it's women, and “not so much the military,” that have changed.