On April 15, Rob and Kathleen Carpenter, the owners of The Beckwith Kitchen, used social media to announce “with great sadness” that their Carleton Place-based meals-to-go business was ending its operations after nearly eight years.
Author of the article: Luke Hendry
Publishing date: May 31, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • Sarah Routhier holds a photo of her late husband, OPP Sgt. Sylvain Routhier, outside their Belleville home. Working to raise awareness of mental-health issues and increase support has helped in her healing since his 2018 suicide, she says. Photo by Luke Hendry /The Intelligencer
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Having found new purpose after her husband’s suicide, Belleville’s Sarah Routhier remains determined to turn her family’s suffering into ways to help others.
Quinte West OPP Sgt. Sylvain Routhier died in July 2018. Two other OPP officers took their own lives within three weeks.
Dr. Manuela Joannou is stepping down from her role as the medical director of a trauma program for veterans and first responders in eastern Ontario amid public anger over her decision to place a registered sex offender as a peer mentor for a group of sexual assault survivors.
Doctor apologizes for allowing registered sex offenders to retreat sexual assault survivors
Now, the doctor in charge of Project Trauma Support says she regrets that she has decided to allow registered sex offenders to mentor a group of sexual assault survivors with post-traumatic stress disorder under her care.
Seven female first responders and veterans of the Canadian Forces Shared their stories publicly with CBC News yesterday. They said that Dr. Manuela Joannou violated their trust because she failed to tell them that her most recent peer tutor was convicted in two separate sexual assault cases, and then participated in a six-day trauma retreat in July 2018.