filed in Canadian Current Events, Civil Rights on Jan.03, 2009
This is rich. British Columbia’s Minister of Housing and Social Development Rich Coleman told the Victoria Times-Colonist that the government was engaged in a review of the BC Mental Health Act, partly with an eye to begin forcing homeless people into emergency shelters on cold nights. This comment came in the wake of a Vancouver [...]
filed in Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, Mental Health Commission on Oct.01, 2008
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 [...]