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Brain Health - Financial Post
Employers Getting Started
On the Road to Mental Health in the Workplace
Dedicated to His Excellency Michael H. Wilson
Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America
Roundtable Senior Chairman Since 2000
This plan was developed with the input and advice of hundreds of experts, business people and individuals living with mental illnesses.
We are universally grateful.
We also wish to acknowledge the contribution of the National Quality Institute (NQI)
and B.C. Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health.
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The General and the Visionary
Two influential voices call for better treatment of brain illness, injury
Retired U.S. General Peter Chiarelli and Don Tapscott: Two influential voices are now calling for brain scientists to work together and be less competitive to accelerate advances in our knowledge and treatment of brain diseases and injuries.
Financial Post - March 31, 2015
Untangling depression's web
The invasion of depression. There is much that is physical about mental illness, and much that is mental about physical illness. Second in the series.
Financial Post - February 24, 2015
Partners in the war on depression
A partnership between the science and business communities is focusing on improving the approach to strengthening brain health.
Financial Post - February 10, 2015
Meeting of the minds
A proposed business-science partnership would focus on addressing brain disorders.
First in a series presented by Mental Health International on an unprecedented initiative to build an international business-science partnership for brain health in a brain economy.
Financial Post - January 19, 2015
Tell Your Story: Letters from everyday people sharing their experience with mental health problems
- To Gabriela, Number Eight is the Happiest Number : Gabriela Roflikova shares eight principles she has discovered that have made her life a better, more enjoyable experience. - March 25, 2015
- The Sun Shines Again. Depression Can’t Prevent That. Hang in There! - December 23, 2014
Guidelines for Working Parents to Protect the Mental Health of Children
Working parents work better if their children are healthy and safe.
Young people coming into the labour market are doing so in large numbers bearing the effects of undetected and untreated mental disorders which began in childhood.
September 2, 2015
"Businessman Bill Wilkerson is stitching together what he calls a "business and science alliance" to broaden the campaign to cure depression."
The National Post
October 5, 2014
Allies against depression: How a Canadian is driving science and business to find a cure
European mental health experts have turned to Canada to help lead a campaign targeting depression in the workplace that is snowballing into an international movement to find a cure.
Video with Bill Wilkerson.
by Kathryn May
The Ottawa Citizen
October 3, 2014
TORONTO, ONTARIO- (Canada Newswire- September 19, 2014) Margaret Trudeau, along with representatives from the Economic Club of Canada, Lundbeck Canada, Excellence Canada, Cookson James Loyalty and Mental HealthInternational, today signed a ground-breaking Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to motivate Canadianbusiness leaders to address mental illness in the Canadian workplace.
Letter from Bill Wilkerson to US Vice-President Joseph Biden
Canadian Woman with Depression Turned Back by US Border Agent
December 2, 2013
STATEMENT CONCERING MAYOR ROB FORD OF TORONTO, CANADA
By Bill Wilkerson, Executive Chairman, Mental Health International
November 7, 2013
Federal Job Cuts Carried Out by Psychopathic Bureaucratic Procedures; Federal Employee Depression Highest Ever
Press Release
November 16, 2012
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Depression among public servants Canada's biggest 'public health crisis': Expert
OTTAWA — Depression among Canada’s public servants is the country’s biggest “public health
crisis,” says a leading mental health expert.
Kathryn May - The Ottawa Citizen
January 11, 2010
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He switched on the light - then fell into darkness
To cap a long, high-powered career, Bill Wilkerson led a campaign to transform the way corporate Canada saw mental illness in the workplace. Then as he reveals here for the first time the professional crisis manager unexpectedly slipped into crisis himself.
Tavia Grant- The Globe and Mail
February 21, 2009
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Mental illness a crisis with no end in sight
Donna Jacobs Monday Mornings, The Ottawa Citizen
Monday June 30, 2008
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How to have a good morning, and a better day
Donna Jacobs Monday Mornings, The Ottawa Citizen
Monday June 23, 2008
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Public Sector 'a toxic place to work'
Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
Monday June 16, 2008
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Battle of the brain
First they fight the illness, then they fight the stigma.
Sarah Treleaven, Financial Post
Saturday, May 17, 2008
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