Posts Tagged ‘mental Health’
Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous
Monday, April 27th, 2026
Coercion is articulated as care and involuntary treatment is presented not as a restriction of liberty but as a necessary response to incapacity and risk. This appeal to compassion functions as a unifying political language, enabling cross-partisan support despite differing ideological stances. By portraying these policies as pragmatic, humane and long overdue, policymakers limit opposition. They also reconfigure the boundaries of acceptable state intervention…
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Those who care for long-term dementia patients are expected to do the impossible
Monday, April 13th, 2026
You have to deal with a patient who is no longer the person you loved, who is critical and demanding and will not do whatever is in their best interest, like taking medication or seeing a dentist. A patient who might even be violent… If you’re lucky your patient might retain a calm and co-operative personality and/or you can afford to get them into a good and supportive place to live. These are not options for many caregivers.
Tags: disabilities, Health, Home Care, mental Health
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Ford government to end funding for supervised consumption sites, advocates say — including two in Toronto
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
… the province is providing the sites 90 days’ notice “in order to support an orderly transition for clients so they can access other community health services… The sites are being asked to provide a plan for how they will transition clients to other community health services and realign their services to promote rehabilitation.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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‘It’s chronic disease, stupid!’ The central challenge facing health care
Friday, February 20th, 2026
A well-integrated interprofessional health-care system, rooted in primary care and configured to support patients with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers, has the potential to improve health outcomes, curb health-care spending and reduce reliance on hospital care… Government policies that fail to meaningfully support public health and social safety nets ultimately drive higher chronic disease rates and greater downstream health-care costs.
Tags: economy, Health, mental Health, poverty, Seniors, standard of living
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There are realistic solutions to our growing mental health crisis
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
In primary care, mental health concerns account for roughly one-in-five visits to family physicians in Canada and most primary care practices in Ontario do not have embedded mental health professionals. Too often, patients leave with a referral, not support, and join another wait-list… A mental health system that waits for crisis is not care… We must find new ways to invest in early, visible and embedded support.
Tags: jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, youth
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What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Depression arises from a mix of factors – biological (genes and hormones), psychological (personality and thoughts) and social (stress and life events). Treatment options are based on all of these factors, as well as considering how severe the depression is… While science has made some progress in understanding depression, what underpins each person’s experience is unique.
Tags: mental Health
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Ontario needs more psychologists. These changes finally address the long-standing obstacles to care
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Across Canada, other provincial and territorial regulators have safely relied on shorter, well-designed supervision periods for many years. Ontario already recognizes psychologists trained under these models through Canadian labour mobility rules that require provinces and territories to register professionals who are already registered elsewhere in Canada, even if their training followed different, shorter, timelines.
Tags: Education, jurisdiction, mental Health
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For women who live on the margins, health care is often out of reach. Here’s how we can build a bridge to access
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
A community health worker (CHW) is typically a trusted member of the local community who understands the challenges of those who are sick or socially excluded. With targeted training, CHWs can conduct basic health screenings for conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer, and reproductive and mental health problems. Importantly, CHWs act as bridges to primary care physicians… This approach builds trust, continuity and access…
Tags: mental Health, participation, poverty, women
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Feds revive bill to build digitally connected health data systems for patients, providers
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Canada’s health data system is “fragmented and siloed” and incomplete health records can compromise patient care and safety… If passed, the legislation would establish standards that companies developing electronic medical records must follow, allowing data to be shareable between health-care providers and across provinces and territories… “Canada’s diversity and single-payer model has created one of the most valuable health data sets on Earth,”
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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B.C. to end drug decriminalization project, after ‘challenging’ three-year-experiment
Friday, January 16th, 2026
The program was pitched with the goal to “reduce stigma and fear of criminal prosecution that prevents people from reaching out for help, including medical assistance.” But a furor ensued over claims that the program was encouraging public drug use in playgrounds and other inappropriate places… we continue… adding treatment and recovery beds… intervention and supports… harm reduction services and undertaking everything that we can to save lives,”
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health
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