Archive 1997-2016
By Ashley Monckton
Andrea Cooper often picks up the phone in her office only to hear the sound of someone crying.
They are the tears of frightened parents who have just caught their teenage daughter throwing up to lose weight.
“Often they’ll call us because they have no idea where to turn,” she says. “They’ll just be so upset because their daughter is so sick.”
At the World Summit on the Information Society last month, government delegates decided once again to leave control of the Internet in the hands of the Americans.
The next federal government must stop treating mental illness as a crime, argues Kevin Ma.
A lack of volunteer nurses has meant a downtown homeless drop-in centre has had to limit the number of people who can use some of their services.