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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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Election’s over, but most poll workers still haven’t been paid

November 6, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 6, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

It was a long day for everyone.

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How Justice Minister Wilson-Raybould could change Canada-Aboriginal relationship. No pressure

November 4, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 4, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Maxime Faille was in court last week fighting the federal government.

He hopes Canada’s new Justice Minister will make that a lot more rare.

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The case for taking ‘temporary’ out of ‘temporary foreign worker’

October 28, 2015April 22, 2018amp Leave a comment

October 28, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Kristina Torres was so close.

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