Healing Our Everyday Heroes, Ottawa’s First Responders

 Photo credit: Michael Burns By: Louise Bradley, President and CEO at the Mental Health Commission of Canada This past Friday, the bus crash at Westboro Station riveted the city of Ottawa. We watched in shock and disbelief as a run-of-the-mill afternoon commute turned into a nightmare. For three days, local TV

Lac-Mégantic

 Everyone knows a Montreal Maine and Atlantic (MMA) train without engineer careened into Lac-Mégantic last July, derailed, exploded, killed 47 people, injured many others, destroyed the town’s centre, polluted lake and soil, and tore out the community’s heart. Blame has since been widely laid, from CEO Edward Burkhardt blaming the