In the wake of Attawapiskat’s youth suicide crisis, prime minister said his government would work with the provinces and territories to build the ranks of counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists

OTTAWA—Canada has yet to feel the full effects of mental-health issues gripping people across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday as he pledged support to lower levels of government in combating the problem.  Read the rest of this article at The Toronto Star…
Image: Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett is greeted at the Attawapiskat airport by Chief Bruce Shisheesh as NDP MP Charlie Angus, right, looks on. 

For 10 years Adrian Lawford kept a secret from everyone at work. The TD Bank employee has battled anxiety and depression for most of his life, but never told a soul at the office until one day when he sat his manager down to come out “from behind the mask.” “It was a scary time,” he remembers.  Read the rest of this article at The Toronto Star…

The People’s Strength project was funded through Health Canada’s now-defunct Health Services Integration Fund, which was aimed at improving health-care delivery to First Nation and Inuit peoples

Three years before Attawapiskat First Nation was hit with its latest suicide crisis, the regional health authority that serves the community launched a federally funded suicide-prevention project – an $800,000 mental-health initiative that fell far short of the ambitious vision declared at the outset.  Read the rest of this story at The Globe and Mail…