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Mental Health

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Books

Living In Between Fat and Thin

August 4, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Lauren Bride

In a society where size means everything, we are constantly negotiating to fit in

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Photo by Michael R. Holzworth
Media

Omar Khadr and the Shame of the Canadian Press 

July 11, 2017July 21, 2021 - by Omer Aziz

Anger over the settlement has never been about law or even policy. It’s about how we see the crimes of people who do not look like us

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Photo by William Warby
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The Easter Bunny

June 5, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Liz Levine

My sister’s mental illness made it hard for us to trust her. But there was more to her life than I could have believed

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Illustration by kulinci
Health

How Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Chronic Illness

May 30, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Robert Maunder

The mistreatment of children is creating a public health crisis

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Memoir

Death by a Thousand Cuts

May 19, 2017January 29, 2020 - by Carol Cowan-Levine

How an army of mental health professionals let my daughter down

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Overburdened

May 17, 2017April 6, 2020 - by University of King's College

Mental health issues cost Nova Scotia and PEI more than a billion dollars a year. But with long wait times and a shortage of specialists, the provinces are facing a crisis in providing adequate care

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Illustration by Vesna Asanovic
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Wake and Bake

April 20, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Felix Vikhman

A psychotherapist details the rise of marijuana-induced psychosis among his clients

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Books

The Benefits of Solitude

April 19, 2017April 27, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Our society rewards social behaviour while ignoring the positive effects of time spent alone

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Photo by Gage Skidmore
Health

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Comes to Washington

January 24, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Felix Vikhman

A psychotherapist warns of the human wreckage that men such as Donald Trump leave in their wake

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Illustration by Niall McClelland
January/February 2017 / Justice

To Live and Die in Solitary Confinement

December 21, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Breese Davies

In Canada’s prisons, the horrors of segregation are most often visited on the mentally ill

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