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A furore among Barrie, Ontario parents has developed after a harm reduction booklet entitled “safer snorting” was distributed by the Canadian Mental Health Association at a local high school. One parent and member of the Facebook group “Barrie Concerned Citizens” posted that students at Barrie North Collegiate Institute were recently given the booklet along with condoms. “I do not know if the teachers and principal is aware but I sure hope complaints are made,” wrote James Buccos in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “This is absolutely despicable. Yes we are all aware our kids are going to...

Euthanasia for mental suffering can be the equivalent of suicide carried out by a doctor and it’s irresponsible to frame MAID as a way to prevent people from dying by suicide at their own hands, parliamentarians heard this week. Dutch psychiatrists issued a blunt warning to senators and MPs during the seventh and final meeting of a special joint committee deliberating the expansion of MAID (medical assistance in dying) to people whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. “My message to Canada: do not expand. The evidence is not there,” Dr. Jim van Os, a professor of...