Post traumatic stress disorder is expensive A new Tyee series reports that caring for Canada’s Afghanistan veterans could cost as much as $11 and a half billion dollars. Carleton University researcher David Perry estimates that by July 2011, 41,000 Canadians will have served in Afghanistan and long-term care will require big spending. Already over 360 [...]
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March 31, 2009
$11.5 billion to care for Afghan veterans; Media gets Vancouver’s Eastside Wrong; Toronto Transit Merger – 31 March 2009 Headlines
March 18, 2009
18 March 2009: The headlines
My pick of the day’s national news, written for broadcast on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM. Conservatives get busy — on campus and on the campaign trail Former premier Mike Harris is reportedly building support for MPP Tim Hudak in the race to succeed John Tory as Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader. Harris is widely seen [...]
