Students build tip sheet for better mental health
Students at the Toronto Catholic School Board are firm believers that wellness starts with caring for mental health.
Poetry book a bittersweet dream come true
King's University College puts focus on mental health
Comment: Canada will be a full service death industry if we euthanize the mentally ill
During the summer I decided to take a break from speaking about euthanasia. There were several reasons. First, it was getting more and more difficult to find groups that were interested in hearing the anti-euthanasia message. Then when something was arranged only a handful of people would show up.
Mustard Seed spreads welcoming message for Thanksgiving
Euthanasia should not be available to mental health patients, says CMHA
Mental health patients should not be eligible for assisted suicide, says the Canadian Mental Health Association.
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Holy See's representative to the United Nations appealed Wednesday to the Human Rights Council to couple psychological treatment with spiritual care.
In York Region there’s an effort being made to teach elementary students in the Catholic school system about the importance of monitoring their own mental health.
Leaving my fears to God
For many, anxiety and stress can be debilitating. It can lead to a number of physical symptoms that prevent you from being fully present in the moment.
Video game warns youth about drugs
Can playing video games help youth kick a drug habit? Hamilton’s Good Shepherd centre is hoping to find out.
Bringing the human back into hospital design
TORONTO - People go to hospital in the hope of feeling better. But if patients are welcomed into a forbidding, institutional room with a strange bed, fluorescent lights and cold, hard floor, what then?
Chaplains help soldiers ease their pain
Death, chaos, silence, despair… and faith? The post-traumatic stress disorder crisis in Canada’s military is being met with a small core of dedicated men and women who have always been there — the chaplains.
A house, but no home for children in foster care
Children are our future. While this truism emphasizes that children grow up to either perpetuate or change the legacies left behind by their forebears, it is questionable whether these implications are considered in the system that cares for Canada’s most vulnerable youth.
Out of the Cold numbers remain high
TORONTO - More than 12,000 times, people in Toronto slept on a vinyl-covered foam mattress on the floor of a church, synagogue or mosque this past winter.
Archbishop Raymond Roussin passes away at 75
Archbishop Raymond Roussin’s life of dedication, faith, struggle and hope is over. The retired archbishop of Vancouver died in Winnipeg April 24. He was 75.