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Art and mind connect at 'Parle-moi d'Amour' auction
Buy art, help someone suffering from mental health issues. It’s a simple formula for a silent auction that kicked off Wednesday night at La Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur on Sherbrooke St. E. as...
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Curran: Suicide's indelible scars
“More sad news.” The subject line in the email from one of my oldest friends was a chilling warning. Four months after she buried her mother, Maureen was writing to say her 54-year-old brother had...
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Profile: Sheila Woodhouse is a household name
Sheila Woodhouse was looking for a job at one of Montreal’s missions and she’d asked Father John Walsh, whom she knows, for a letter of reference. But the high-profile priest had other plans for her....
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Movie review: Juanicas
Juanicas Three and a half stars Documentary Directed by: Karina Garcia Casanova Running time: 77 minutes There is no happy ending to Karina Garcia Casanova’s heartbreaking documentary Juanicas. The...
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Striking the right note on mental illness
He was awarded the Gold Medal at the Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition in 1979. He was 23 at the time, and he went on to conduct at a host of renowned orchestras, including the...
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Books for Kids: A road trip of unexpected and often wacky proportions in...
Anne Lamott, in Bird By Bird, her classic treatise on the art of writing fiction, talks about how most readers assume authors have a firm hand on their characters. What many don’t realize, she...
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Double murder trial boiling down to drug abuse versus mental illness
The trial of Idelson Guerrier, accused of murdering two people in a Montreal hospital more than three years ago, appears to have boiled down to a debate over whether his crimes can be attributed to a...
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Gatineau doctor threatened, slapped aggressive patient
A Gatineau doctor has been found guilty of breaching Quebec’s Code of Ethics of Physicians for slapping, threatening and insulting an inebriated, suicidal, HIV-positive patient after she spat in his...
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Susan Schwartz: Breaking the mental illness stigma
This much Nick Murray knows: that his children will never know their paternal grandfather, his father. They will never know him because he took his own life eight years ago, at 56. In looking back,...
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The making of Luka Rocco Magnotta
One month before he killed and dismembered Lin Jun, Luka Magnotta went to the Jewish General Hospital where he told a psychiatrist he couldn’t sleep, and was feeling impulsive and irritable. He told...
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