Total health and resilience for the military community

It's only now as a country that we are starting to understand the powerful links between trauma, PTSD, mental health, and addiction—and the efforts that will be required to tackle these challenges.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Public Services and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough, pictured recently at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa.
OTTAWA—When the Department of National Defence announced a total health and wellness strategy earlier this year, as part of the new defence policy, it embarked on its most ambitious and important program yet for the health of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members. We hear the stories but we don't s...

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