We hear all about the casualties of war, soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in duty. However, we rarely hear about injuries beyond the physical: the invisible, psychological wounds of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Share your comments with The National: What is the number one thing you want from the majority government?

A majority government for Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.  The NDP as the Official Opposition.  Huge losses for the Liberal Party, and the BQ decimated.  What do you make of this new political landscape?  And what can Canadians expect from the government over the next four years?  Let us know.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May has tweeted about the final edit of the interview on The National, saying "interview was cut. Climate crisis answer removed."

I think over the years I've had worse press than Jaime, but I'm still going to part company with him here.

The news of Larry Zolf's passing comes with an extra sting for me. I can't claim anything like a full friendship with him, over his many years at CBC, but I did work with him on a show called Up-Canada (only TV archeologists will recall it)

On Monday, October 25, the CBC News Investigative Unit reports on prisoner transfers - Canadians who have been imprisoned internationally, and who apply to the Canadian government requesting to serve their time in Canada.  This story first came to us from Shannon Paige, the girlfriend of a young Canadian man imprisoned in the United States.

No decent, civilized city - and Toronto is both - should be held hostage by the actions of a set of ferociously insolent thugs and vandals.

Which is what happened here yesterday afternoon, and in fits and starts last night and early morning.  A band of black-masked, malicious, and potentially dangerous ne'er-do-wells did their radical best to get a racket going:  torched a couple of police cars, did their petty "let's smash the windows" trick, insulted the police, intimidated spectators, and tried to order the press around.

It's an interesting thing, this concept of protest.

Tonight, The National presents a special investigation into what happened in the crucial hours after former MP Rahim Jaffer was stopped by the police