An organization in Scarborough is refusing to be a bystander to mental illness and believes no one should fight their battle alone. YouthLink took to the streets of Scarborough in 2004, recognizing the need for…
Former singer of the Barenaked Ladies Steven Page attended UTSC to explain the importance of being aware of mental health, coping, and maintaining mental well-being.
After his drug arrest in Syracuse in 2008, Barenaked Ladies co-founder Steven Page locked himself in the basement for days as media trucks parked outside his home. Then his friends dropped by with a bucket of KFC, some sparkling water, and they played HALO on Xbox together.
U of T starts its unprecedented fundraising efforts named ‘Boundless’. UTSC’s senior administrators and students talk about whether the campaign is too ambitious and how it could benefit the east-end campus.
“One in five young people have a mental health problem that needs help,” Myra Levy says. But, the clinical services director for East Metro Youth Services (EMYS) adds, “about one out of six of them are able to access services” due to long wait lists in the city.
Since a rash of area break-ins over the summer, affecting 24 residences on Jackman Avenue and restaurants on the Danforth, police have apprehended a resident of a local apartment building.
According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, more than 500,000 Canadians live with some form of dementia today. More than 60 per cent of them have Alzheimer’s disease. So when Community Care East York held its Healthy Brains clinic at the S. Walter Stewart library branch, the focus was on prevention.
Every day, as Linda Chamberlain walks through the halls of Toronto’s soon-to-be demolished Centre for Addiction and Mental Health on Queen Street West, she sees a part of herself in the patients she works with.