A higher empathy
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…
mental health
Students demand adequate mental health resources
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 at the University of Manitoba
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 thin line between addictions counsellor and addict
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…
Introduction to the October 8 mental illness awareness feature
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…
Anxiety study
The ongoing mental battle with depression
Background Mental illness has commonly been referred to as an invisible disease, since symptoms are not immediately noticeable to the public eye. One of the…
End the romanticization of mental illness
Mental illnesses cannot be characterized by one unwavering, constant mood or symptom, and people do not need to be in crisis on a regular basis…
My anticlimactic trip to the shrink
I’ve never been what you might call a cheery person. I was seven when it first occurred to me that one day I will die…
Changing the conversation about mental health at the University of Manitoba
Last month in the United States, National Suicide Prevention Week took place to engage and inform health-care professionals and the general public about the major…