Exploring Theme: "Suicide States of Emergency"

Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster says declaring emergency would allow government to pull more resources CBC Indigenous: A Nunavut MLA is renewing calls to declare the territory’s suicide rate a public emergency in order to access resources and deploy what she says the government always talks about: a whole-of-government approach.  Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster, MLA for Iqaluit-Sinaa, raised the...

Loss of young people in 2021, 2022 ‘shocking’, says Green CBC News: The N.W.T.’s health minister says the territory needs a “whole-of-government” response to address a spike in suicides this year. Earlier this week, chief coroner Garth Eggenberger released data on suicides from 2021 and the first nine months of 2022. In that period, 29 people died...

CBC: Failure to approve funding requests over 20 years ago to build infrastructure and capacity in mental health counselling, social work, education etc. in a community whose average age is now 21, less that 50% of the average age of the broader population of 46. Chief Eugene Hart declared a suicide crisis in the Labrador...