Analysis: Bell Let’s Talk about Indigenous mental health – CBC

January 26th, 2017

Could pressure from charities force the government to live up to funding promises?

On Jan. 25, otherwise known as Bell Let’s Talk Day — a nationwide social media campaign to encourage breaking the stigma surrounding mental health and raising funds for mental health programming — an anonymous donor stepped in to donate $380,000 to the Wapekeka First Nation, where two 12-year-old girls had recently taken their own lives.

The fly-in community, 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., had asked for funding of a similar amount but was denied by Health Canada last summer, the department claiming the request came at “an awkward time” during the budget cycle.

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