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Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
In an effort to confront the stigma of mental illness Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has in partnership with Manulife Financial have launched a web-based initiative to host their “Let’s Face This – Confront the Stigma of Mental Illness” campaign. Mental Illness is now estimated to personally affect over 10 million Canadians.
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on September 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The revelation that beloved author Lucy Maud Montgomery of Anne of Green Gables fame committed suicide in 1942 is being lauded for helping generate public discussion on mental health issues.
Filed under Mental Health · Tagged with aj mahari, borderline personality disorder, canada, Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables, cmha, depression, Globe and Mail, Kate Macdonald Butler, Lucy Maud Montgomery suffered from depression and committed suicide, Mental Illness, suicide
Posted by A.J. Mahari on September 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
“Green party leader Elizabeth May cast the federal campaign in apocalyptic terms Sunday, urging complacent Canadians to turn off CNN and tune in to the importance of their Canadian vote.” Geez, last election, were we all so busy watching CNN that we didn’t get out to vote? Huh? Eh?
Filed under Politics · Tagged with aj mahari, canada, Canadian government, canadian poltics, cnn, Dion, elections, federal election in canada, Green Party Leader May to Canadians turn off CNN, Mccain, Minority government, Obama, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stephen Harper, US election campaign makes history
Posted by A.J. Mahari on July 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Funding of $4.4 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was announced today by Steven Fletcher, MP for Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia and Parliamentary Secretary for Health, on behalf of Tony Clement, Minister of Health. This funding will support three research teams investigating how to improve the application of mental health research.
Posted by A.J. Mahari on June 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Canadian Mental Health System, according to The Globe and Mail Newspaper needs to be dealt with head-on. As editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail, Edward Greenspon, wrote of Canada’s Mental Health Crisis, in an editorial Friday June 19, 2008, “Face it. Fund it. Fix it.”
Filed under Mental Health · Tagged with aj mahari, anxiety, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, canada, canadian mental health crisis, depression, globe and mail newspaper, ignoring mental health crisis impacts society, mental health care lacking in canada, mental health consumers shortchanged, mental health needs funding, need for long term therapy and support, ocd, stigma and mental illness
Posted by A.J. Mahari on September 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
In its censoring behaviour on the emmys it sure seems that Fox like to control things way too much. If Fox appreciates the freedom of the press why does it seek to interfere with the freedom of its citizen’s speech? What is Fox so afraid of?
Filed under In The News · Tagged with american liberty, Bush, canada, censorship, emmys, Fox Network, free speech, freedom of speech, George Bush, losing rights, media, rights, sally field, the emmys
