Upwards of 100 people gathered Monday evening to place tiny shoes on the steps of St. Columbkille Cathedral in Pembroke, creating a memorial for the 215…
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The state of our collective mental health has been the centre of many conversations since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is no surprise, given the immense changes in the structure of our lives that most people have felt some level of increased mental health challenges. The Mental Health Research Canada 4th National Report has indicated that anxiety and depression are at their highest since the pandemic started, reporting that four times the number of Canadians are experiencing high anxiety levels, and the rates of depression have more than doubled since the start of the pandemic.
Historically, Indigenous peoples experience a much higher rate of mental health challenges. Stats Canada reports that the discrepancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and health have long been reported, noting that we continue to see the effects of intergenerational trauma from Indian Residential Schools in Indigenous communities. The report notes that food and job in
TORONTO The magazine long known as the Ryerson Review of Journalism is temporarily removing Ryerson from its name. The biannual magazine published by the Ryerson School of Journalism will place brackets in front of its name, going by the 1/8 3/8 Review of Journalism, the Review, or the 1/8 3/8 RJ until the end of the winter semester. The move comes after the school of journalism announced in December it would review the names of its two student publications the Review and the Ryersonian given their namesake s legacy. Egerton Ryerson was an architect of Canada s residential school system, which sought to convert and assimilate Indigenous children into Canadian culture and saw them suffer widespread physical and sexual abuse.