We send them off to war as heroes, the men and women of the Canadian armed forces, to serve in places like Afghanistan. Now, more and more of them are returning from their tour of duty with invisible injuries. PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, has probably been with us as long as there have been soldiers and war, b...ut until recently it was barely acknowledged and little has been done in this country to deal with its effects. Gillian Findlay meets three recently returned veterans of Afghanistan to hear their stories of flashbacks, depression, grief, guilt, even suicide attempts.

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At five foot six and one forty-five pounds, he was an unlikely NHL superstar. But, any player who underestimated Theo Fleury did so at his peril. He tore up the ice, electrified crowds, and set himself on the path to the Hockey Hall of Fame. All the while, he was pursued by personal demons--a hardscrabble childhood, a sexually abusive hockey coach would lead to later addictions of all kinds and those addictions eventually lead to his suspension from the NHL. Somehow, Theo Fleury survived it all and now has written, in candid detail, the story of his life. Bob McKeown interviews Theo Fleury.

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She was young, beautiful, with a promising future. But, Nadia Kajouji's suicide stunned her parents and friends. What begins as a devastating personal tragedy becomes an international hunt for an online predator when a retired English schoolteacher discovers a grim online world of suicide chatrooms and one person, in particular, who is pushing vulnerable, depressed people, all around the world, to kill themselves. It was that same person, a middle-aged father of two in Minnesota, who was Nadia Kajouji's secret online friend and pushing her to her tragic death.

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Behind the headlines of the crisis with the Big Three auto makers lies a more dramatic tale. Throughout southern Ontario, hundreds of plants manufacture the parts and widgets that make up our cars. This parts industry employs eight times the number o...f auto workers in the province. But not for much longer. More and more of these plants are closing for good. Linden MacIntyre and the fifth estate follow the workers at one plant, Edscha in Niagara Falls, for five weeks, as they fight to get their severance pay before it closes. Brian Nicholl leads the struggle to get the money they are legally entitled to, but the company says it just doesn’t have.

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