Suicide – ArmchairMayor.ca

LETTER – Being a ‘surviving twin’ leaves a special kind of vacuum

October 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

Dear Armchair Mayor, I feel that many people received something of value when earlier this year you wrote about suicide. It is extremely difficult to lose someone you know [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The tragic arithmetic of death by suicide in our community

September 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MORE THAN 200 people went for a walk around McArthur Island yesterday (Sept. 6, 2025). They were there for a specific purpose — to honor [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Suicide awareness event is both sad and uplifting

September 8, 2024 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ATTENDING THE ANNUAL walk for suicide awareness is not, on the face of it, an uplifting experience. In some respects, I find it something of [Continue]

COMMUNITY – World Suicide Prevention Day event set for McIsland

September 6, 2024 // 1 Comment

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CHARBONNEAU – Liberals lack spine in failure to provide MAID to mentally ill

February 8, 2024 // 6 Comments

BEHIND IN THE POLLS, the federal Liberals have delayed access of MAID to those suffering from mental illness again. After three years of delay, the feds are bowing to [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Canadians question looming changes to assisted-death law

February 13, 2023 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE February 13, 2023 – As the Trudeau government again delays changes to Canada’s medical assistance in death (MAID) laws that would have expanded [Continue]