Mark is fighting a war on two fronts: he’s homeless and living with a mental illness.
The gruelling battle with depression on the streets
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Treatment brings SAD sufferers out of the dark
Sean Liliani, Centretown News
Dr. Julek Meissner, a naturopathic doctor, treats seasonal affective disorder. New immigrants benefit from on-site counselling
She picked the wrong guy. He beat her. She wanted to run but her boyfriend’s links to organized crime meant that nowhere in her country was safe. In desperation she fled to Canada and applied for refugee status. But while the abuse is behind her, the effects haunt her still.
New court reaches people ‘lost in the shuffle’
A woman pleads with the judge as she is ushered into the prisoner’s box in courtroom 8. 
Sean Liliani, Centretown News Courtroom 8 at the Elgin Street courthouse opened in early 2007 and runs three days a week. It has offered mental health services and rehabilitation to those in need who pass through the justice system.