Suicides
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Canada needs national standards to tackle kids’ mental health challenges: expertsConcern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two years of disruptions and repeated isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.HealthJan 30, 2022
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Regina police chief talks drugs, homicides, suicides as he reflects on 2020Regina police Chief Evan Bray sits down with Global News' Allison Bamford to discuss what it's been like navigating the challenges of 2020.CanadaDec 24, 2020
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Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation declares state of crisis after 3 recent suicidesThere has been a death by suicide for the past three weeks in Makwa Sahgaiehcan – two of them were youths with the other being a young adult.CanadaNov 22, 2019
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Nova Scotia premier seeks to ‘support’ First Nation after string of suicidesPremier Stephen McNeil, who is also the province's Aboriginal Affairs minister, said the province already funds a crisis call centre at Eskasoni First Nation and may "enhance" that funding.CanadaJan 24, 2019
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Aboriginal group calls for more mental health funding in wake of Eskasoni First Nation suicidesThe Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs says Indigenous Services Canada should provide more long-term funding for the roughly 4,500 people who are part of the Eskasoni First Nation.HealthJan 23, 2019
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Ontario’s chief coroner to launch review police suicides in 2018The coroner says the families of all nine officers who took their own lives, along with their police forces, are supportive of the review.HealthJan 4, 2019
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More mental-health support needed for northern Sask.A psychiatrist serving northern Saskatchewan communities is calling for more mental-health support.CanadaMay 15, 2018
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3 suicides in North Battleford, Sask. prompts meetingAccording to North Battleford’s mayor, the city has seen three suicides in the last three weeks.CanadaJan 27, 2018
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Regional suicide numbers worry Brockville social workersNumbers provided by the hospital indicate that during the years of 2012 to 2014, there 641 suicides in the area that encompasses Bancroft to Cornwall, Kingston to Ottawa and all areas in between which are often rural.HealthSep 12, 2017
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Senator Murray Sinclair to lead investigation into Thunder Bay Police Services BoardSeveral Indigenous chiefs have criticized police handling of the deaths of local youths in the city, going so far as to ask the RCMP to take over the investigations.CanadaJul 24, 2017
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