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Jun 1, 2022 · Rubin “Rocky” Coward is “extremely optimistic” about changes he feels are imminent within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Coward — along with JP Menard, Marc Frenette, and Wallace Fowler — are the four plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the CAF, and are are suing for systemic racism and institutional discrimination they say they faced […]
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Fowler was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and was released from service in 2003. Canadian Armed Forces veteran Wallace Fowler at his home in Bible Hill, N.S. Heidi Petracek ...
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When he transferred to a helicopter squadron at Garrison Petawawa in 2013, he was called "lazy" and told he "abused the system" because that's "what all Aboriginal people do;" he was asked if his wife got drunk before sex because "a drunken Indian is a better lay;" and other members would "pat their hands against their mouths and state, 'oh, oh, oh...
After he filed a complaint, he was "inappropriately coerced by his superiors into dropping the complaint," the claim detailed. Harassment continued against Fowler and his family when he was posted to CFB Esquimalt in B.C., in August 2001. "His stepchildren were spat on, subjected to drive-by verbal assaults, put off the school bus and denied lunch ...
Robillard served in the reserve force in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia "without incident," but "everything changed" when he transferred to the regular force in 2005, the claim detailed. While posted at CFB Winnipeg, his unit went on a training exercise at a United States air force base in Greenland. After raising concerns about "rampant" alcohol ab...
The three plaintiffs are seeking to certify their case as a class action to represent all Canadian Forces members who identify as "racial minorities, visible minorities or Aboriginal peoples." The plaintiffs claim damages for their ongoing psychological and physical injuries, as well as for loss of earning and benefits professionally. A dollar figu...
Apr 5, 2024 · Lead plaintiffs in the case brought by Stewart Mckelvey against the Attorney General of Canada include Nova Scotia’s Wallace Fowler, a Black man who wrote two books about his experiences of racism in the military, as well as Marc Frenette, an Indigenous man from Ontario, and Jean-pierre Robillard, a Black man of Haitian descent raised in New Brunswick.
Oct 3, 2015 · A former member of the Canadian Armed Forces is calling for an independent inquiry into racism in the military. Wallace Fowler, who spent three years with the Canadian Armed Forces as a vehicle ...
A.B., WALLACE FOWLER and JEAN-PIERRE ROBILLARD Plaintiffs - and - HIS MAJESTY THE KING Defendant FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WHEREAS: 1. In this “Proceeding”, the Plaintiffs, all former members of the Canadian Armed Forces (“CAF”), claim on their own behalf and on behalf of class members that they suffered racial
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Apr 10, 2024 · 2024-04-10 - CHRIS LAMBIE clambie@herald.ca @tophlambie A Truro man is speaking out about rough treatment at the hands of an RCMP officer after he demanded the Mountie identify himself. Wallace Fowler got a call from his girlfriend Monday afternoon as she was picking up her seven-year-old son from Colchester Christian Academy.
