by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 22, 2016
This article is part of The Unremembered, a Globe and Mail investigation into soldiers and veterans who died by suicide after deployment during the Afghanistan mission. In a speech before military brass, mental-health specialists and veterans’ advocates, one of...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 22, 2016
Conservative MPs are calling upon the Liberal government to conduct a scientific study into the effects of an anti-malarial drug that some veterans say has left them with psychiatric problems and that they blame for the violence that erupted on the Somalia mission in...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 20, 2016
Listen the full interview from November...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 18, 2016
Canadian Military Veteran Aaron Bedard served as a sapper in Afghanistan. He’s now part of a class action lawsuit with the Equitas Society against the Federal Government. The action, in part, asks for the Federal government to fulfill a sacred obligation to care...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 16, 2016
The head of the Canadian Armed Forces says the military is reassessing the use of an anti-malarial drug that can cause serious psychiatric side-effects now that Health Canada agrees the brain damage associated with mefloquine can be permanent. Whether to continue...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Nov 16, 2016
Former Canadian Airborne soldier Clayton Matchee lives in a North Battleford home afflicted with brain damage from a suicide attempt — a desperate act after he was charged in the murder of a Somali teenager. That was more than 20 years ago, during Canada’s ill-fated...
