By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen

Sexual Assault and Harassment

Judge to rule on Canada Post employee’s sexual assault and harassment case

Dec 13, 2025 | 3:16 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — A BC Supreme Court judge will give his decision Jan. 6 in the case of a man tried for sexual assault and criminal harassment allegedly committed while he worked as a shop steward at the Canada Post depot in Prince George.

Justice Dev Dley heard closing arguments Dec. 8 about Aaron David Paul Brandly, who was charged for offences against one complainant between Aug. 9, 2017 and Aug. 9, 2014, and between Jan. 1, 2022 and Aug. 9, 2024 against another complainant.

The 1971-born Brandly pleaded not guilty. When he testified Nov. 20 and 21 in his defence, he told the court that he was simply joking around with workplace buddies. He described the horseplay and bawdy language that he said he traded with the women, though he admitted he regretted some of his behaviour.

Crown prosecutor Gail Barnes told Dley the fact that the depot was a toxic work environment “does not excuse or normalize any of the allegations that the complainants made against the accused.”

She said the evidence heard in court proved the Crown’s case beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Citing testimony of one of the complainants, Barnes said Brandly frequently touched the woman’s genitals, breast, buttocks and anal region without consent, thus committing sexual assault.

“She made it very clear to the accused every time one of these assaults took place that she wanted him to stop,” Barnes said.

On the criminal harassment charge, she said Brandly had to know that the woman felt harassed, because he admitted that “she frequently would say nasty things to him.” She emphatically swore at him and told him to leave her alone.

The woman also feared for her safety, left her job at the Prince George depot and moved out of the city.

“She’s got this creepy person who’s done all kinds of things to her at her workplace, who says she knows where she lives,” Barnes said. “She lives by herself, and the Crown says, in all of those circumstances, her fear is reasonable.”