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Canada cannibal wins bid to leave mental hospital
A man who beheaded and cannibalised a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept, a criminal review board ruled.The Criminal Code review board said...
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Mental Health Commission of Canada welcomes Cindy Stevens to Board of Directors
CALGARY , May 15, 2012 /CNW/ - The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is announcing the appointment of Cindy Stevens , Manitoba's Deputy Minister of Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs, ...
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Canada falling short to address mental health needs: report
Canada is falling considerably short in addressing the needs of the mentally ill, and billions of dollars should be invested in rectifying those shortcomings, says the country’s first national mental health strategy, released Tuesday. “It’s important because Canada is nowhere near where it needs to be in the area of mental health and mental illness,” said Dr. David Goldbloom, chair of the Mental ...
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Canadian Nurses Association applauds new direction of latest national mental health strategy
OTTAWA , May 8, 2012 /CNW/ - The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) is encouraged by the work of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) in its strategy outlined in its new report, Changing Directions, ...
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Mental Health Centres Applaud First Ever Mental Health Strategy for Canada
Strategy is a Long Awaited Call to Action on Mental HealthTORONTO, May 8, 2012 /CNW/ - Canada's first national mental health strategy was welcomed by the province's specialty mental health centres: Centre ...
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Release of Mental Health Strategy for Canada An Historic Milestone Say Canadian Psychiatrists
OTTAWA , May 8, 2012 /CNW/ - The Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) congratulates the Mental Health Commission of Canada on developing and releasing Canada's first-ever mental health strategy."The ...
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Blueprint to improve mental-health care looks to cancer for inspiration
OTTAWA - Planners at the Mental Health Commission of Canada are looking at the fight against cancer as an inspiration for their new campaign.
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Canadian Mental Health Association and Medicine Shoppe Canada Launch National Partnership
Collaboration will support CMHA's work to improve mental health for allEDMONTON , May 7, 2012 /CNW/ - Medicine Shoppe Canada and the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) kicks off CMHA's 61st annual ...
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Canada's first-ever mental health strategy will pressure Harper to act
OTTAWA - Canada is about to get its first-ever national mental health strategy — a massive report that may persuade Prime Minister Stephen Harper that his government must return Ottawa to a lead role on health care.
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Canada poised to introduce mental health strategy
Canada is about to get its first-ever national mental health strategy -- a massive report that may well persuade Prime Minister Stephen Harper that his government must return Ottawa to a lead role on health care.