"War is terrible... but 5,000 Canadians did answer the call," said Gulf War veteran Bob Crane.

A defamation trial involving a former television war correspondent is going ahead in front of a judge alone after the jury was dismissed over an opening statement deemed too prejudicial.

A long-running defamation case involving a former television war correspondent known as the "Scud Stud" and one of Canada's biggest media companies is to go before a jury in a Calgary courtroom on Monday.