Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Featured: Calgary performers support mental health with 26-hour improv marathon – Global NewsJanuary 26, 2024The Kinkonauts improv group are performing a 26-hour comedy marathon to raise awareness for suicide prevention. The marathon is being held in memory of Covy Holland, a member of the […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Featured:Canadian Men’s Health Foundation reports that more men are addressing stress, anxiety and depression – Telus HealthJanuary 18, 2024Canadian Men’s Health Foundation (CMHF) has expanded their MindFit Toolkit, which provides men with resources to deal with chronic stress, anxiety, and depression. “We are encouraged […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Featured: Spin bikes will take over the Ranchman’s dance floor soon – Daily HiveJanuary 4, 2024YYC Cycle partnered with Ranchman’s in Calgary last week to host two spin classes, the proceeds of which will come to Centre for Suicide Prevention. The classes took place […]

  This is a summary of the latest significant Canadian () and international suicide research we collected in the past month. Subscribe to receive the research roundup straight to your inbox! () Laporte, N. et al. (2023). Striking a balance: Triage and crisis intervention models within the pediatric emergency room. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1277095 This study […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! The Golden Gate Bridge now has suicide barriers. Why can’t B.C.’s Alex Fraser? – Global NewsJanuary 4, 2024**Method warning** A suicide prevention net has just been completed on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and advocates, including Delta BC police chief Neil Dubord, […]

From all of us here at Centre for Suicide Prevention, we wish you a peaceful and hopeful holiday season. This year was a big one for suicide prevention: As of November 30, Canada has 3-digit dialing to the Suicide Crisis Helpline, which is available to call or text at 988, 24/7. We’re hopeful that governments […]

This is a summary of the latest significant Canadian () and international suicide research we collected in the past month. Subscribe to receive the research roundup straight to your inbox!  Tsai, M. & Klonsky, E. (2023). Warning signs for suicide attempts in psychiatric inpatients: Patient and informant perspectives. General Hospital Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.11.005 Psychiatric inpatients as well […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! This will be the last news roundup of 2023! The next roundup will be released January 8, 2024. Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: BC […]

Suicide Rates Have Risen Steadily for Black Girls and Women – US NewsDecember 8, 2023A new study from the US has found that suicide rates for Black women and girls ages 15 to 24 have more than double in the past 20 years.  “While the reasons why remain under investigation, it could be that cyberbullying […]

Canada’s new 988 suicide-prevention helpline starts today. Here’s what you need to know  – Toronto StarNovember 30, 2023Three-digit dialing for Canada’s suicide crisis helpline launched last week on Thursday, Nov. 30. The helpline can now be reached at 9-8-8 via call or text 24/7. The helpline offers services in English and French and, through its […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Third of UK carers with poor mental health have thoughts of suicide, survey finds – GuardianNovember 22, 2023Data from charity Carers UK found that one third of unpaid caregivers in […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! N.W.T. fishing camp creating community for active and veteran military members – CBCNovember 17, 2023Jocelyn Démétré served in Afghanistan and after his deployments, found that he struggled with adapting to normal life after being used to such a high adrenaline environment, like he had […]

Today, Saturday, November 18, is International Day for People Impacted by Suicide Loss. Suicide grief is unique: people who have lost someone to suicide experience grief that can be more complicated than the grief following other types of loss. Participation in a suicide bereavement support group has been found to reduce depression, isolation, and symptoms […]

Build Up: work on a project, the second quarterly mini campaign of the year-round Buddy Up Campaign, runs from December 4 to 10, 2023. Learn more about how to participate and become a Champion for Buddy Up. Download the PDF Men don’t talk face to face, they talk shoulder to shoulder” – John Evoy, Irish […]

This is a summary of the latest significant Canadian () and international suicide research we collected in the past month. Subscribe to receive the research roundup straight to your inbox! Sharp, P., et al. (2023). “Hey Amir, how are you really doing?”: Participant perspectives of a peer-based suicide prevention campaign for men. American Journal of […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Inquest jury makes recommendations after teen denied help at Fredericton hospital – CBC November 8, 2023Lexi Daken, 16, died by suicide days after being turned away from hospital in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A coroner’s jury has made 10 recommendations that could help prevent similar […]

Each year in Alberta alone we lose more than 500 people to suicide. This impacts families and communities as a whole. Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is an event which brings survivors of suicide loss together to find connection, understanding, and hope through their shared experience. This free event is intended to help suicide loss […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Alberta Hospital Edmonton needs more staff, better monitoring of new patients, judge says in fatality report – CBCNovember 3, 2023**Method warning** A fatality inquiry following the suicide death of Kaitlind Credgeur, 25, who died while in care at Alberta Hospital Edmonton (AHE), has produced […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Protests erupted over LGBTQ content in N.L. schools. So what’s actually happening in the classroom? – CBCOctober 23, 2023Protests over school curriculum relating to sexual orientation and gender have been happening across Canada. Recently, protests took place in Newfoundland and Labrador. Vanessa McAuley works […]

This morning, CSP staff accepted a generous donation on behalf of the 8th annual Evan Skowron Memorial Golf Tournament. This year’s tournament raised over $13,000 for suicide prevention! A sincere thanks to Mark Skowron for the continued support, The Trop Bar and Grill, Springbank Links Golf Course, and everyone who participated, donated, and raised awareness […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Canada is slipping too far down the slope of death on demand – Toronto Star October 20, 2023 Conservative Member of Parliament Ed Fast has proposed a bill that would repeal access to MAID for people solely suffering from a mental illness. The bill was […]

Subscribe to receive the weekly news roundup straight to your inbox! Parent calls Sask. government’s new bill a ‘smokescreen’ over mental health, addictions crisis – CBC NewsOctober 12, 2023Sarah Mackenzie, the mother of a 14 year-old non-binary, pansexual youth who died by suicide, spoke in the Saskatchewan legislature on October 12. She is speaking against […]

This is a summary of the latest significant Canadian () and international suicide research we collected in the past month. Subscribe to receive the research roundup straight to your inbox! Cusimano, M.D. et al. (2023). An interrupted time series evaluation of the effect of cannabis legalization on intentional self-harm in two Canadian provinces: Ontario and […]