Firefighters, water bombers battling forest fire in Kawartha Lakes, Ont.

Canadians are overwhelmingly in favour of mandatory national service for young adults but are less united about what form that service should take, a new survey has found.  The survey, produced by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute, asked a group of Canadians if they supported the idea of mandatory national service – that is, one year of time donated for those younger than 30 years of age – across a number of fields. Many nations including Germany, France and Norway have instituted this practice in recent years. Respondents were overwhelmingly in favour of Canada adopting the practice...