{"id":763943,"date":"2026-06-27T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:22:08","slug":"edmonton-infantry-battalion-senior-leaders-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763943\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton infantry battalion: Senior leaders reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 The Department of National Defence has reinstated two leaders of a respected Edmonton battalion days after announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/edmonton\/article\/senior-leaders-of-edmonton-based-infantry-battalion-removed-amid-investigation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/edmonton\/article\/senior-leaders-of-edmonton-based-infantry-battalion-removed-amid-investigation\/\">they had been removed<\/a> pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Defence Department spokesperson says Lt.-Col. Jason Hudson and Chief Warrant Officer Kim Doerr are again commanding officers of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia\u2019s Canadian Light Infantry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The department had announced their removal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The spokesperson says there was a thorough investigation and that senior army leaders have confidence in the abilities of Hudson and Doerr to continue leading the unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No details about what lead to their removal were shared, but the spokesperson says appropriate disciplinary measures are being taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The spokesperson says Armed Forces leaders are expected to demonstrate good judgment and conduct to maintain the trust of the soldiers they lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Department of National Defence has reinstated two leaders of a respected Edmonton battalion days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,24803,23752,713,47,714],"class_list":["post-763943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-defence","tag-edmonton","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}