Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Mike Hager, Kathryn Blaze Baum
Publication Date: May 18, 2025 - 20:21
B.C. does not know how many people are on extended leave from involuntary hospital stays
May 18, 2025
The B.C. government does not know how many people are under involuntary mental-health supervision outside hospital settings at any given time, the province’s Ministry of Health acknowledges. That lack of tracking makes it impossible to know whether the teams responsible for caring for such people are properly resourced in a province with one of the worst ratios of mental health care professionals to patients in the country, critics say.
Unpublished Newswire
The idea is one of five being put forward by an Alberta government-appointed committee tasked with studying potential tailings management options.
June 12, 2025 - 18:04 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Former Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki has been using a wheelchair since he was paralyzed from the chest down in the 2018 Saskatchewan bus crash. He recently put on an exoskeleton that allowed him to walk – and handle a hockey stick – again.It’s been a while since Ryan Straschnitzki looked at the world from a different perspective.The former Humboldt Broncos hockey player has been using a wheelchair since 2018, when he was paralyzed from the chest down in a bus crash in rural Saskatchewan that killed 16 people and injured 13 others.
June 12, 2025 - 18:03 | Bill Graveland | The Globe and Mail
Hillel Ontario is calling on Toronto Metropolitan University to investigate Maher El-Masri, a recently appointed interim associate dean, because the group says he has “repeatedly engaged with and spread extreme, antisemitic, and deeply polarizing content on his social media account.”
Hillel Ontario, a Jewish student organization with a presence on nine campuses across the province, including TMU, sent an
action alert
last Thursday alongside several...
June 12, 2025 - 17:46 | Ari David Blaff | National Post
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