In preventing emotional crisis, suicide, the feds need to look in mirror

Every G7 country has a suicide prevention strategy with reliable funding and measurable progress goals—except Canada, writes Kathleen Finlay.

Canada needs a true 21st-century approach to the way we deliver mental health services and protect our most vulnerable. Sadly, too many in Ottawa seem satisfied with the status quo. Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash

Opinion

BY KATHLEEN FINLAY

August 26, 2020

What causes people to take their lives is often shrouded in mystery. But that’s not the case for one grieving family who recently lost a loved one to suicide. They lay the blame squarely on the federal government, whose inept and insensitive handling of the Canada...

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