Louis Busch is a Community Support Specialist with Shkaabe Makwa, a centre within the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) designed to drive culturally-responsive systems initiatives to achieve health justice and wellness for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities. Louis is a Bear...

Last fall, I interviewed The PEARS Project co-direc- tors about their advocacy work and the ways in which PEARS fosters hope and resilience in the student community. Emma Biaminte (she/her) is an under- graduate double-major in diaspora and transnation- al studies and environmental ethics, with a...

We all deserve to love and to be loved. I learned early on, however, that I was probably the exception. I learned that wherever there is love, there is loss. They either die or they leave, or they simply take and never return. Nevertheless, I still chose to love. I was the hopeless romantic who...

Smartphones are taking a toll on our mental health. Many spend a lot of time scrolling aimlessly through social media or getting distracted by yet another notification. But what if we could harness the power of technology to boost our mental health instead of undermining it? This article will...

As you wait in the patient room of Dr. Andrew Simone’s Toronto-based dermatology practice, you can’t help but feel a sense of anticipation. It has been months, years, or even decades since you began suffering that par- ticular skin condition, and yet many months remain from a dermatolo- gist...

  The following is based on an interview conducted with Professor Jane Freeman, the founding Director of the School of Graduate Studies’ Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC) at the University of Toronto. A Senior Fellow of Massey College and a member of the Stratford Festival’s...