Mind the Gap
Tip of the Iceberg When the mental health system fails Canadians, people die. Just ask bereaved mother and mental health advocate Bonnie Bricker from Winnipeg. She became passionate about mental [...]
SUICIDAL DISCREPANCIES: What we don’t know about suicide and how to correct it
There are anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 suicides in Canada per year. The Statistics Canada website cites the year 2009 as an example, when there were 3,890 suicides. Unfortunately, the figures we [...]
Turn Awareness into Action: Why We Need to STOP Talking about Mental Health
An emerging trend of the past decade is the number of speakers – from royalty, to celebrities, to the average person – willing to tell their mental health story. These stories are always [...]
The Unintended Consequences of the Presumptive Legislation for PTSD
Preface The introduction of new provincial legislation that establishes Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a “presumptive” occupational illness for first responders seems to make a lot of [...]
