Posts Tagged ‘suicide’

Badly timed budget cuts cost lives

New studies quantify the human cost of austerity

by Erica Alini - Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Survivor of crash that killed football players says he considered suicide

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – Zach Judd often thinks about suicide since a car crash…

by The Canadian Press - Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Techno-McCarthyism and the death of Aaron Swartz

Internet idealist fell victim to a misguided war over information

by Jesse Brown - Monday, January 14, 2013
Campus crisis: the broken generation

Why so many of our best and brightest students report feeling hopeless, depressed, even suicidal

by Kate Lunau - Wednesday, September 5, 2012
REVIEW: The Final Leap: Suicide On the Golden Gate Bridge

Book by John Bateson

by Nicholas Köhler - Friday, April 27, 2012
‘Autoportrait’: a memoir, Edouard Levé-style

The late French author’s penultimate book, newly translated, makes for compulsive reading

by Howard Akler - Thursday, April 5, 2012
Canada, home to the suicide capital of the world

In Pikangikum, gas sniffing is rampant and young people are taking their own lives at a shocking rate.

by Martin Patriquin - Friday, March 30, 2012
How to spin

Last week, the NDP criticized Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu after Mr. Boisvenu suggested convicted…

by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Boisvenu on convicted murderers: give them a rope

The Conservative senator seemingly has some ideas on reducing prison expenses

by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, February 1, 2012
‘Not to be forgotten’

An ad hoc committee of Conservative, New Democrat and Liberal MPs has released an…

by Aaron Wherry - Friday, November 18, 2011
Human steps

Bob Rae talks about his experience with mental illness.
The recent debate in the…

by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, November 1, 2011
‘If we don’t start talking about it, nothing will change’

Tuesday night the House overwhelmingly passed the Liberal motion calling for a national suicide…

by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, October 6, 2011
REVIEW: Seppuku: A history of Samurai suicide

Book by Andrew Rankin

by Brian Bethune - Wednesday, October 5, 2011
‘It is now a political question’

The Liberals used their opposition day to move a motion calling on the government…

by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Why it’s time to retire the enforcer

The NHL enforcer’s career is nasty, brutish, and often short

by Emma Teitel - Monday, September 12, 2011
Wade Belak’s final hours

The night before he was found dead of a suspected suicide, the former NHL enforcer was out on the town and in good spirits

by Charlie Gillis - Friday, September 9, 2011
France puts itself on suicide watch

A government agency is taking on superstitious cults with unusual zeal

by Emma Teitel - Tuesday, July 5, 2011
This week: Good news, bad news

Winnipeg gets its Jets back, while Greece gets its back up

by macleans.ca - Monday, July 4, 2011
Happy places have highest suicide rates: study

Being around happy people could make depressed feel worse

by macleans.ca - Monday, April 25, 2011
Suicide rate in work force tied to economy, study shows

Rate has followed the economy since the Great Depression

by macleans.ca - Friday, April 15, 2011