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Today, Ken Hardie, M.P., on behalf of the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, announced nearly $16.5 million in funding for 11 projects to help support communities in British Columbia in their efforts to address and prevent substance use-related harms.
April 9, 2021 Ottawa, Ontario Health Canada
Throughout Canada, communities and families continue to grapple with the ongoing overdose crisis and other harms associated with problematic substance use. Unfortunately, it has been nearly five years since British Columbia declared a public health emergency under their Public Health Act in response to increasing overdoses and overdose deaths in the province.
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How teenagers are coping in the COVID-19 pandemic
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For almost 12 months now, Canada’s teenagers have essentially been locked up with their parents. By the time the pandemic ends, two sets of graduations and proms will have been cancelled, along with a year and a half of sports tournaments, school plays, movies, dates and parties – basically, everything they’d been promised would make the final years of high school the best of their vanishing childhoo
December 22, 2020 · 0 Comments
Written By ROBERT BELARDI
It’s important to look at the facts before anything else.
Before the pandemic began, even well before, you wouldn’t be at fault to surmise that mental health, particularly in youth, had been at risk. Even adults, who continue to face challenges as well into their lives.
Mental health is one of the most prevalent discussions today. It’s truly staggering to look at it.
And it might be because of the infectious globe we live in. Competition. Money. Success, are all compounds to distress. I can tell you first hand, as a 26-year-old man, it’s taken a toll on me at times. It’s taken a toll on my family members. Going to school. Earning an education. Paying off debt and somehow affording a decent home in this real estate market. These are some areas that grind my gears.