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1 in 5 young Canadians struggles with mental health. TVO Today’s In Our Heads podcast asks why.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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Premiering today via Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts and elsewhere, TVO Today’s In Our Heads podcast is a six-part series that illuminates the causes, challenges and risks of ongoing systemic gaps in mental healthcare.

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  • Premiering today via Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts and elsewhere, TVO Today’s In Our Heads podcast is a six-part series that illuminates the causes, challenges and risks of ongoing systemic gaps in mental healthcare.
  • In Our Heads is hosted by Tiffany Lam, a journalist and podcast producer at TVO Today.
  • Through researched statistics and informed storytelling, this podcast helps build understanding about how young people are experiencing their lives today.
  • Listen to the series trailer and the first episode of TVO Today’s In Our Heads wherever you get podcasts.

Government of Canada invests $42.9 million to support individuals and the health sector to adapt to our changing climate

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Friday, May 26, 2023
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Today, as part of the Government of Canada's National Adaptation Strategy and the Government of Canada Adaptation Action Plan , the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, announced that Health Canada will invest up to $43 million over the next five years to fund programs that will support the health sector and people in Canada to adapt to a changing climate.

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  • Today, as part of the Government of Canada's National Adaptation Strategy and the Government of Canada Adaptation Action Plan , the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, announced that Health Canada will invest up to $43 million over the next five years to fund programs that will support the health sector and people in Canada to adapt to a changing climate.
  • These investments will help protect individuals from existing and emerging health risks caused by climate change and build health systems that adapt and adjust to our changing climate.
  • Last year's report: Mobilizing Public Health Action on Climate Change , discusses the impacts of climate change and health.
  • Health Canada is co-chairing the Climate-Resilient Health Systems Working Group of the Alliance on Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH) led by the WHO.

Statement from Minister Champagne, Minister Duclos and Minister Mendicino on protecting Canada's research

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 14, 2023 /CNW/ - The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, and the Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety, made the following statement:

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  • OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 14, 2023 /CNW/ - The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, and the Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety, made the following statement:
    "Our government takes its responsibility to protect Canadian research very seriously.
  • We have made great strides in protecting Canada's research ecosystem, but with a constantly evolving threat environment, further action is needed.
  • This enhanced policy will be implemented rapidly and in close consultation with our departments, Canada's national security agencies and the research community.
  • "Ministers have also written to Universities Canada and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities urging them to follow similar guidelines for all their research partnerships, and more particularly those partnerships involving sensitive research areas.

Digital Mental Health Platform Get A-Head Begins Next Phase of Growth with $17M Acquisition

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Monday, December 12, 2022
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Ahad Bandealy,the platform's founder, will continue to lead the Get A-Head team in the role of CEO, as well as Chief Digital Officer of Vector Health Labs.

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  • Ahad Bandealy,the platform's founder, will continue to lead the Get A-Head team in the role of CEO, as well as Chief Digital Officer of Vector Health Labs.
  • "Get A-Head was founded with the ambition of revolutionizing mental health care by empowering student trainees to increase the available pool of mental health professionals," said Ahad Bandealy, Founder and CEO, Get A-Head.
  • Founded in 2019 by Ahad Bandealy, Get A-Headis a mental health SaaS platform that provides educational institutions, practicing clinical therapists, corporations and more with the digital infrastructure needed to deliver and manage mental health services for their students, members and employees.
  • Vector Health is the owner/operator of a licensed Ontario Laboratory, as well as Tulip Health, a virtual health platform offering high-quality virtual appointments to residents of Ontario.

Ongoing pandemic-driven pressures impact activities and workload of health care workers across Canada

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
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Data shows that in 2021, average overtime hours among health care workers were the highest they have been in over a decade.

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  • Data shows that in 2021, average overtime hours among health care workers were the highest they have been in over a decade.
  • In addition to creating new pressures on health care workers, the pandemic exposed pressures that have been building steadily over the last decade.
  • The use of NPs can reduce pressure on health care systems and improve access to primary care, particularly in rural and remote settings.
  • Pressures are being felt by health care workers across the spectrum of care and across all jurisdictions.

KEENON Robotics Signed Strategic Partnership with SGP, Marked Official Entry into Senior Living and Healthcare Industries in Canada

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Thursday, November 10, 2022
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TORONTO, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KEENON Robotics ("KEENON"), a leading global intelligent service robotic company, has officially announced the new partnership with SGP Purchasing Partner Network (SGP) in Canada.

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  • TORONTO, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KEENON Robotics ("KEENON"), a leading global intelligent service robotic company, has officially announced the new partnership with SGP Purchasing Partner Network (SGP) in Canada.
  • As the largest group purchasing organization in the senior living industry in Canada, SGP understands partners' business needs and is keeping providing unmatched customer service, comprehensive network support, and innovative supply chain solutions to the Senior Living and Healthcare Market.
  • KEENON's strategic partnership with SGP marks a major milestone for the company as it pursues a new development path in the senior living and healthcare industries, by exploring more application scenarios and opportunities to improve residents' and home satisfaction levels.
  • Founded in 2010, KEENON ROBOTICS offers intelligent, reliable, and convenient solutions for various scenarios including restaurants, hotels, hospitals, senior living homes, airports, retail stores, factories, etc.

Ontario Hospital Crisis Province-Wide and By Community

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Monday, October 24, 2022
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While there is an international crisis brought on by the pandemic, the depth of Ontario’s hospital crisis is extreme comparatively, and it is not inevitable. Successive Ontario governments have pursued the most radical hospital downsizing policy of the country, and among virtually all developed nations. This does not excuse the current government. When the Ford government took power, it cut hospital funding to below the rate of inflation -- meaning real dollar cuts – to force continued downsizing leading into the pandemic despite clear evidence that the hospital cuts had gone too far. Wage restraint legislation that caps wage increases in public health care services at 1 percent while inflation is running at more than 6 percent continues to inflame the deep sense of anger, burnout and injustice among health care professionals who have risked their lives for us throughout the pandemic. The Ford government has remained intransigent, refusing to lift the wage cap despite the unprecedented staffing crisis across hospitals, long-term care and home care. Ford’s fiscal plan was – and remains – to keep hospital costs down to help fund tax cuts.

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  • Ontario Health Coalition calculations from: Canadian Institute for Health Information, Data Table: Hospital Beds Staffed and in Operation 2020-2021.
  • In addition, hospital professionals report that MRI shifts overnight have been left unstaffed due to the staffing crisis.
  • Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), a pediatric hospital and research centre in Ottawa, is facing unprecedented volumes in its emergency department this fall, with many patients admitted to hospital waiting more than 30 hours for an available bed, said president and CEO Alex Munter.
  • The Chesley Hospital emergency department closed on October 7 for multiple weeks with a scheduled reopening date of Dec. 2.

Embracing Technology and Innovation “Key” to Easing Healthcare Crisis

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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Novo is focused on safely shifting non-catastrophic healthcare away from hospitals and into doctors offices, clinics, and even patients homes.

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  • Novo is focused on safely shifting non-catastrophic healthcare away from hospitals and into doctors offices, clinics, and even patients homes.
  • Its a roadmap to huge savings for government-run healthcare systems that are collapsing under the strain of COVID-19s lingering impacts.
  • Novo is using advances in medical technology and home computers/smart phones to dramatically improve the ability for patients to communicate with medical professionals and even get assessments done quicker.
  • Canada spent $308 Billion on healthcare in 2021, roughly $8,000 per person according to CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information) research.

TELUS Health opens new mental health clinic in Montréal, offering much needed support to meet growing demand

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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MONTREAL, July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to an alarmingly high number of individuals waiting for mental health support in Qubec, TELUS Health announced the opening of its Mental Health Clinic in Montral on 600 Boul.

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  • MONTREAL, July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to an alarmingly high number of individuals waiting for mental health support in Qubec, TELUS Health announced the opening of its Mental Health Clinic in Montral on 600 Boul.
  • We are committed to delivering compassionate, evidence-based mental health and wellness services that are easily accessed by individuals living in Montral and surrounding areas.
  • Located in the heart of downtown Montral, TELUS Healths new mental health clinic features 3,700 sq.
  • TELUS Health is a leader in digital health technology, providing virtual care, home health monitoring, electronic medical and health records, benefits and pharmacy management, and personal emergency response services.

Hospitalizations for eating disorders among young women jumped by more than 50% during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Thursday, May 5, 2022
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OTTAWA, May 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Throughout the pandemic, hospitalizations and visits to emergency departments (EDs) due to eating disorders have surged among young women in Canada.

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  • OTTAWA, May 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Throughout the pandemic, hospitalizations and visits to emergency departments (EDs) due to eating disorders have surged among young women in Canada.
  • CIHIs release shows that youth living in less-affluent neighbourhoods had higher rates of ED visits and hospitalizations for mental health disorders than their peers from more-affluent neighbourhoods.
  • The increase in hospitalizations for youth due to an eating disorder during the pandemic is striking and concerning.
  • Many young people from marginalized communities and less-affluent neighbourhoods have difficulty accessing treatment for eating disorders and would not be reflected in these data.