The Department of National Defence says rumours that Canada’s new chief of defence staff tried to get out of Iraq ahead of the troops she was commanding on a 2020 NATO mission are “entirely false, baseless and unfounded.”

Plus, Joe Rogan won’t return to Canada until voters “get rid of” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

And Canada women’s soccer staff gets sanctioned after getting caught spying on a rival team.

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