Tag: mentalhealth

N.S. mass capturing report calls lack of mental-health care a ‘public well being emergency’

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The ultimate report into the Nova Scotia mass capturing has validated what buddies, neighbours and relations of these killed in April 2020 have been saying for years: they have been failed by the province and are nonetheless coping with a “public well being emergency” due to unmet mental-health wants. The Mass Casualty Fee’s prolonged report was […]

Taking pictures of Kitchener’s Beau Baker struck concern into others with mental-health points, inquest advised

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KITCHENER — The police taking pictures of Beau Baker possible struck concern into individuals with mental-health points, his inquest was advised Tuesday. Baker, 20, had skilled post-traumatic stress dysfunction, anxiousness, despair and suicidal ideas. He was armed with a small knife when he was fatally shot by Waterloo Regional Police officer Eric Boynton in 2015 […]