Mental health groups ask for lockdown frustrations to be shared
While the country is trying to get to grips with winter lockdown talking to others has never been more essential.
Alex McClintock takes it easy at The Neuk beside project manager Wendy Given (Image: submitted)
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A new mental health walking group has been set up in Perth as part of efforts to tackle lockdown isolation.
Local business owner Pete Chan has launched the weekly scheme in partnership with the Perth branch of mental health group Andy’s Man Club.
It began on Wednesday with participants having a bag of chips and an Irn Bru before setting out from Craigie Cross.
Mr Chan said: “It was the idea to get people outdoors as people are generally struggling.
Toronto Life’s top real estate stories of 2020
Toronto Life’s top real estate stories of 2020
During the chaos of 2020, when nearly everything in the city came to a grinding halt for long stretches at a time, the one thing that never stopped churning was the real estate market. Torontonians, it’s fair to say, are obsessed with the comings and goings of the market, whether they’re looking to buy, sell or stay put. We covered a multitude of stories renters, buyers, upsizers, downsizers, flippers, renovators, and pretty much every other imaginable permutation.
But according to our roundup of the top articles of the year, readers were most fixated on narratives about people ditching the virus-ravaged city. That migration is understandable, particularly in pandemic times. Cooped up in our homes, without access to the many things that make city-living great, the impulse to leave or at least to read about other people finding fresh air and more square footage elsewhere was str