Mental health key to economic recovery, but we’re running out of time

Many people don’t receive the full range of services they require and the mental health needs of about 1.6 million Canadians go unmet each year.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu's government should be commended for its Wellness Together portal, funding for mental health and substance-use programs, and research, and specific investments in Indigenous mental health. But we already know that won’t be enough. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARGARET EATON

November 11, 2020

When COVID-19 forced us all to shut down our way of life as we knew it last spring, the Canadian Mental Health Association warned that Canada had to act quickly to prevent an echo pandemic of mental illness. That echo pandemic i...

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