Mental illness

GUEST COLUMN – Our focus on mental health shouldn’t be limited to one day

January 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

By GREG KYLLO MLA, Shuswap THIS WEEK WE MARKED Bell Let’s Talk Day, which raises awareness of mental health issues as well as funds for mental health initiatives across [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is a return to big institutions the answer to street issues?

October 2, 2021 // 4 Comments

THERE WAS A TIME when the streets weren’t full of homeless, addicted, criminal or mentally ill people. A time when there were no panhandlers, when public washrooms [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Celebrities not the only ones suffering from mental illness

August 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MENTAL HEALTH is suddenly popular, at least in the sense that everybody’s talking about it. Yesterday, American superstar gymnast Simone [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – B.C. denies the mentally ill their constitutional rights

April 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

“UNLIKE MOST OF THE COUNTRY, B.C.’s legislation does not provide a lawyer for people with mental illness facing involuntary detention,” says Jay Chalke, B.C.’s [Continue]

LETTER – The many factors that can cause people to become violent

March 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

Re: Editorial – We must stop assuming the mentally ill are more violent This is probably one of my favorite Armchair Mayor Articles thus far and I mean no disrespect. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We must stop assuming the mentally ill are more violent

March 29, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE WERE TWO MORE horrible acts of mass violence on the weekend, this time in Canada, and this time very close to home. The first happened [Continue]