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Globe and Mail: Canadian Defence Department probes claim Canadian forces trained extremists in Ukraine

Published Oct. 23, 2021. Updated Oct. 23 at 4:08 am

TORONTO, ON - APRIL 06: Members of the Canadian Forces board a bus at Denison Armory to convoy to CFB Borden amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on April 6, 2020 in Toronto, Canada. Troops will remain ready to respond to any requests made by any levels of government in Canada to help fight the pandemic. Cole Burston/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Cole Burston / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

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The Defence Department has vowed to review how the military screens for extremist views in the foreign troops it works withafter a report found that far-right radicals in the Ukrainian army boasted on social media that they received training from the Canadian Armed Forces.