Mar 9, 2016 | Mental Health
We rarely hear success stories about those with mental illness but we always hear the stories of chaos and mayhem. So we begin to assume that anyone with a mental illness is a potential threat. How else to explain the draconian methods used on Ashley Smith? The story...
Mar 8, 2016 | Mental Health
Imagine a 52-year-old truck driver collapses over the wheel and slams into a school bus killing eight children. He’d had a heart attack. Now imagine a 22-year-old man takes a gun, enters a theatre and shoots randomly, killing eight children. It seems he had an...
Oct 17, 2015 | Mental Health
Another mass shooting in the USA. Innocent people. Too often students. The President once again addressed a mournful country. “Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too...
Jul 20, 2015 | Mental Health
Andrew Loku was shot and killed by police on July 4. He’s black. A refugee from South Sudan where he’d survived 16 years of civil war, and then found sanctuary in Canada. He had recently graduated from a construction programme at George Brown...
Apr 12, 2015 | Mental Health
Journalists have developed a bad habit if equating terrorism with mental illness. Connecting terrorists to mental illness is lazy journalism. Journalists assume that no one in their right mind would do such a thing; they must be mentally ill, rather than accepting the...
Jan 15, 2015 | Mental Health
Leaders in mental health advocacy, where are you? Where have you been since Zehaf-Bibeau murdered Cpl. Cirillo and attacked the Parliament, just a week or two after one of our soldiers was run over in Quebec? The media-CBC, National Post, Globe and Mail all...
