Advocates demand feds step up help for veterans

Last week’s alleged murder-suicide in Nova Scotia puts mental health support at top of mind.
The department of Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr, middle, says it has a number of projects underway to help veterans and their families with mental health problems.
Some veterans say they are angry with the government and say those who served need better support immediately to help deal with the trauma that so many struggle with. In the aftermath of an alleged murder-suicide in Nova Scotia last week, involving a man who was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan...

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