Posted: Feb 08, 2021 2:00 AM MT | Last Updated: February 10 Dr. Tyler Black is a psychiatrist who specializes in the study of suicide at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He says recently released data out of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan suggest suicide rates declined in 2020. .(Screenshot/Zoom) Widespread assumptions that suicide rates would increase during the pandemic are not supported by the growing amount of evidence coming out of Canadian provinces and other jurisdictions around the world, say experts who study the topic. "It's a good example of how sometimes the story we tell ourselves, we look for reasons to support it and we don't always use the data," said Tyler Black, a psychiatrist and suicide expert the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.