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‘Nobody should be surprised’ Canada’s economy is in rough shape

November 20, 2015April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

November 20, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Maybe you heard: Canada’s books took a turn for the ugly over the past few months.

Or, as Finance Minister Bill Morneau put it when he unveiled his government’s fall economic update Friday morning, the economy “tilted to the downside.”

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Cost of veterans’ mental illness will eclipse other injuries by 2017, PBO says

November 19, 2015May 30, 2016amp Leave a comment

November 19, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

A new report released Thursday outlines the growing burden of mental illness in the cost Canada pays for combat, and outlines gaps in information on veterans’ health care costs once they leave the military.

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No, Canada doesn’t spend more on refugees than on retirees

November 19, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 19, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Maybe you’ve seen it. Maybe your uncle forwarded it to you or someone you know posted it on Facebook.

The meme, infographic, status update, chain email you received is false. It was debunked years ago but continues to be circulated.

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Everyone wants to beat ISIS. Nobody knows how

November 17, 2015April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

November 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

How do you destroy a hated group that thrives on hatred, or declare war without playing into your enemy’s clash-of-civilizations recruitment strategy?

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Ontario prepares for refugee influx: timing and magnitude unknown

November 15, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 15, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

They don’t know how many people are coming, when they’ll arrive, what services they’ll need or who will pay for them. But Ontario’s preparing to welcome an unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees.

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Canada’s scrambling to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees but restoring health care could take ‘months’

November 12, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 12, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Thursday morning Meb Rashid saw a woman severely traumatized after years of an abusive relationship.

Before that, an HIV/AIDS patient with dangerously low CD4 count; a pregnant victim of sexual violence.

They all needed treatment. None had coverage.

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Invisible Wounds: How to treat a traumatized brain

November 11, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 11, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Tamara Dalrymple gets all kinds of people.

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Army members are 3 times more likely to kill themselves than others in Canada’s military

November 10, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 10, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Members of the army are 3.4 times more likely to kill themselves than non-army members of Canada’s Armed Forces and at least 50 per cent more likely to kill themselves than the average Canadian of the same gender and age, a new study has found.

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Invisible wounds, revisited: Canada still falls short in treating soldiers’ psychic scars

November 10, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 10, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Walter Callaghan says it took him seven years, debilitating alcohol and painkiller addictions, and a torpedoed career to convince the military he needed serious, long-term treatment.

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Veterans Affairs Minister vows to change the way Canada treats vets

November 10, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 10, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Canada’s new Veterans Affairs Minister said he’ll drastically alter the way the feds treat veterans, giving them the benefit of the doubt instead of making them prove their need.

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