I fully support an UMSU campaign on mental health. Public health insurance does not fund most mental health services, particularly preventive ones. The university offers limited student counselling, but it’s not the university’s role to operate as a pseudo-healthcare system. As such, students may be unable to access the care they need when they need it.
Mental illness has historically been a difficult topic for discussion, for such reasons as a lack of knowledge of its effects or the naive belief that it’s a rarity even in today’s society.
University of Manitoba psychiatry professor Jitender Sareen received just under $2 million from the federal Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) this summer to fund…
Three University of Manitoba researchers have become the recipients of over $3 million in health research Foundation Grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), providing long-term, stable support to top Canadian health researchers.
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Vincent Li has been a household name for years now, and has been the source of much debate in Manitoba, and all across Canada. In…
Students at the University of Winnipeg have been putting the pressure on its board of regents, the U of W governing body, to improve access…
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire—who, after witnessing to the 1993-1994 Rwandan genocide as the force commander for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, has become an…
The Couch of Willingness—written by Michael Pond, a psychotherapist living in Vancouver, and his partner, former CBC producer and current filmmaker Maureen Palmer— focuses on Pond’s…
It is Mental Illness Awareness Week. It is likely that you have been touched by mental illness, be it directly or through the suffering of…