mental health

Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise. 

Voters in British Columbia ushered in a wave of sweeping political change throughout the province in municipal elections on Saturday, October 15, 2022, that saw new mayors elected in Vancouver and Surrey and other major communities.

A research project aims to discover how the age, size and shape of woodlands affect people’s happiness and well-being.

The RCMP says it is investigating an incident last Friday, August 26, 2022, in which Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was subjected to a profane tirade in Grande Prairie, Alta.

The co-founder of Lucid was left wanting when he suffered a mental health crisis while studying music at university. Now he’s got a team building a digital therapeutic company around its healing properties.

A 26-year-old man suspected of shooting dead three people in the Montreal area earlier this week had mental health issues and likely chose his victims at random, Quebec provincial police said on Thursday, August 5, 2022.

The man in the fluorescent green baseball cap nervously eyes the video camera, then politely declines to be interviewed.

The young people who have streamed into Saskatoon this week for a three-day Canada World Youth event are pumped to change the world.

Young people struggle to access and afford mental health support, and the services available often the lack cultural context required to navigate issues specific to a patient's identity, one young advocate says.

A youth-led project backed by mental health groups offers an online curriculum for young people to explore links between cannabis and mental health and aims to provide engaging health promotion and harm reduction resources.

Katharine Zywert’s just-completed PhD thesis shines a light on transformative approaches to health care that improve both human and planetary well-being.

From cultural events to procuring bulletproof vests and sending supplies, Russia's attacks on Ukraine have upended the lives of Ukrainian-Canadian students. 

A long history of targeted drug law enforcement has left some in Canada’s Black communities wary of cannabis despite it now being legal, and it's a slow process to undo that trauma-informed stigma.

The holiday season can be an especially tough time for folks dealing with addiction and mental health challenges, so Edgewood Health Network brought together six of Canada’s top drag performers to share their compelling stories of getting and staying sober.

The latest installations from "Making With Place" create gathering spaces for young racialized men to discuss how to better give and receive care.