There is no strong research linking exposure to depleted uranium to health problems of veterans, yet those problems are real and deserve further research, concludes a report from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs.  Several veterans who believe their health conditions are linked to exposure to depleted uranium took their protests public, sparking former Veterans Affairs minister Steven Blaney to commission a scientific advisory committee to study the issue. That report, delivered in January, concluded depleted uranium is potentially harmful, but “it is not associated with a large or frequent health effect.” Although incomplete military records make it impossible to tell where and when individuals were deployed, and there is no way currently to accurately meas...

A bell which had once hung in a small church in the heart of the Northwest Rebellion in Saskatchewan has been returned to the Métis community, after being stolen from a Legion branch in Ontario 22 years ago. Though local people came to call it the Bell of Batoche, the bell that was on display at Millbrook Branch, 115 kilometres northeast of Toronto, was really from a church at Frog Lake, Sask. It had been taken in 1885 as a war trophy after the Northwest Rebellion led by Louis Riel was put down. General Frederick Middleton’s troops defeated the rebel forces at Batoche and captured Riel. After the fighting Sergeant Fred McCorry brought the bell to his home town of Millbrook. He turned it over to the town which hung it in the tower of the local firehall. However there was no place for ...