Whether due to stigma, poor insight, hopelessness or lack of access to care, many people who are mentally ill suffer in silence, sometimes for years [image: Jason Payne]

We’re in the midst of an unprecedented health crisis, with fentanyl-related overdoses causing the death of thousands of Canadians. I believe this crisis is due, to a great extent, to the wilful blindness of all levels of government to the inadequate resourcing of mental-health care.  Read the rest of this article at The Province…

The cost of providing services for homeless people with mental illness is so high that Canadian researchers are calling on policy-makers to seek alternatives