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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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Alison Howell

Alison Howell is a research fellow at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Security and the Global Governance of Mental Health, recently published by Routledge.

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Alison Howell

Afghanistan’s Price

By downplaying PTSD, our government makes soldiers and their families bear the costs of war November 2011
Last year, I had the opportunity to live and do research in the United States as a Fulbright scholar. I was there to conduct research on the ways in which the U.S. military was dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, in order to compare this approach with that of the Canadian Forces. As part of my activities at Brown…