Wainwright families seek answers in CTV's Remembrance Day coverage

Omar Sachedina's Ottawa broadcast pairs national remembrance with families' grief after a fatal military training fire.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 137,613 views a day, 172 times a normal first day on this channel (801).

CTV News coverage of Remembrance Day 2026

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0:00Chek Wong and his family describe their grief after Sergeant Morgan Wong's death in a military training fire.
2:08Sonia Monk and Mark Caffrey remember Aidan Goulding's practical jokes and a photograph taken shortly before his death.
7:00Monk questions why training continued despite a nearby brush fire and discusses the military police inquiry.
9:47Gen. Jennie Carignan addresses the Wainwright deaths, the ongoing Board of Inquiry and military investment.
14:10Canadian personnel deployed in Latvia reflect on personal sacrifice while serving on a NATO mission.
15:23A panel discusses sacrifice, recruitment and military spending as parade contingents march in Ottawa.

Omar Sachedina brings the families of soldiers killed at CFB Wainwright into CTV News's Remembrance Day coverage, making space for their memories and unanswered questions alongside the ceremonies in Ottawa.

Four Canadian soldiers died in the training fire at the Alberta base. In the broadcast, Chek Wong speaks about losing his son, Sergeant Morgan Wong. Sonia Monk and her husband, Mark Caffrey, remember her son, Private Aidan Goulding, through his practical jokes, his focus and a photograph taken shortly before his death.

Monk also asks why training continued with a brush fire nearby. "Why didn't you just move the men and women, maybe keep the training for the next morning?" she asks. The broadcast addresses both the military police inquiry and the military's Board of Inquiry.

"CTV News coverage of Remembrance Day 2026" drew about 90,000 views in its first 11 hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for long broadcasts and live streams. A separate upload, "The Last Post and the Lament ring out in Ottawa for Remembrance Day", also drew an unusually large audience for a regular-length CTV video.

Hosted from the National War Memorial, the main broadcast includes Canadian personnel serving on NATO's mission in Latvia and a panel discussing sacrifice, recruitment and military spending. But the families' questions receive a direct response from Gen. Jennie Carignan, Chief of the Defence Staff: "The investigation is ongoing, Omar, and we are going to find out what happened."

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