The Australian wildfires, the Iran plane crash, climate change, Kobe’s death — it seems impossible to escape bad news. Media saturation can impact our socialization, mood, mental health and ability to interact, for better and for worse.
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Five students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
Women’s rights, sexual abuse, LGBTQ+ visibility, racism, chronic illness: the Fulcrum has not strayed away from contentious issues this decade. Read here the best that the decade has had to offer.
We may not have flying cars, but in the age of cult-hit film Blade Runner, experts are already considering the dilemmas of morality presented in Ridley Scott’s masterpiece.
From health to academics to social life, university students with chronic illnesses have to prioritize things a little differently. Take a look inside their lives and find out what the university is and isn’t doing to help.
“In the early nineties, we worried about kids passing notes, that was a distraction in class. We were taught how you intercept notes and the protocol on note-passing. We’ve just way surpassed that,” one local high school teacher says.
Is party discipline a necessarily Canadian political institution or is suffocating the democratic process?
Vaccinations have been instrumental in keeping the Canadian public safe from highly contagious diseases over the past century. But as more and more people lose faith in immunization, will we see resurgence of age-old ailments?
Leading researchers come together to tackle mental illness head on.
The intersection of poverty and mental illness on campus.
