Canadian Mindscape Monitor

Canada’s Mental Health Commission has spun off a fundraising arm, “Mental Health Partnerships of Canada”. The MHC announced recently that it had developed a “strategic alliance” between Mental Health Partnerships of Canada and the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation to raise money “to support the goals of the Mental Health Commission of Canada”. However, Mental Health [...]

Just when you’d hoped we were done with the Mental Health Commission, MHC’s fall newsletter says they’ve got $130 million to keep them covered for the next ten years of their gloriously well-conceived “anti-stigma” campaign. They also got another $110 million to conduct “research demonstration” projects on homelessness and mental illness. Though that unfortunately wasn’t [...]

From the beginning, these ridiculously insulting “anti-stigma” stamps for mental health awareness coming from Canada Post seemed strangely similar to the kind of misguided ideas we’re already accustomed to from Canada’s new Mental Health Commission… Right down to the descriptive phrase “out of the shadows” used as both the title of the MHC/Senate report and [...]

The chair of Canada’s Mental Health Commission keeps preaching his “anti-stigma” campaign to the public, and most journalists keep gobbling it up uncritically. Michael Kirby, who previously chaired the Senate Committee that issued the federal report on Canada’s mental health system, “Out of the Shadows at Last”, constantly complains about the “negative opinions” many people [...]