Archive for September, 2006

New Clues To Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A new study of twins suggests that minor neurological abnormalities associated with post-traumatic stress disorder may not be caused by the condition, but are actually pre-existing factors that make people more vulnerable to manifesting PTSD.

Researchers at the Harvard Medical School and […]

“If this craze for bicycle riding continues much longer our livery stable men will have to close down,” warned the editorial in the Fort Macleod Gazette in the early 1890s. “The young man and his best girl,” continued the editor, “…will shortly […]

The Battle of Britain looms large in the history of World War II. It also represented the first commitment of the Royal Canadian Air Force to combat in that war, although the Canadian role was small compared to future operations.

The official dates of the Battle of […]

By late October 1943, information from Ultra provided evidence of the enemy’s determination to defend the Winter Line south of Rome and to continue to build up forces in Italy and the Balkans. While the Allies deployed 11 divisions, General Albert […]

In the aftermath of the first Czech crisis of early 1938, Canada’s prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, vacationed in Bermuda where he spent two long afternoons chatting with Admiral Sir Sydney Meyrick, commander-in-chief of the Americas […]

The Cold War seemed to some of us a much hotter possibility in the 1950s. The United States and the Soviet Union were poised to hurl hundreds of nuclear warheads at each other. Rockets were accurate enough to target any city in Europe or North […]

It was plain to see that the Veterans Affairs Canada pilgrimage to mark the 90th anniversary of the battles of Beaumont Hamel and the Somme would not be one involving World War I veterans, but it would certainly be about remembrance–with special emphasis […]

There’s a digital camera clicking away just outside Keith and Edith Olson’s house near Manitoba’s Whiteshell Provincial Park, and it’s not “shooting” bear or moose. Its wide-eye is pointed up, way, way up at something grander, at a celestial […]

Do you ever stop to consider complex ethical dilemmas? You know, the kind where there’s sometimes more than one right answer?

Well, there’s a new branch of the Canadian Army tasked with helping soldiers figure out the answers–or where to find the […]

They were perhaps the most promising four days in the recent history of the Canadian Forces. During late June the government announced its plans to purchase approximately $17.1 billion worth of new equipment and services to update and strengthen […]