More than a year after finishing treatment for an obsession with food and counting calories, Grade 12 student Brooke Ailey of Thunder Bay, Ont., is sharing her story to raise awareness about the prevalence of disordered eating in young female athletes.
During her time at Western University, Tomachi Onyewuchi learned to juggle competing responsibilities: school, work and modelling gigs. But despite good time management and being “very Type A,” she wasn’t prepared for the mental toll that accompanied the nearly 60-hour weeks of her first job.
The mental health of Canadians has deteriorated in the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, putting pressure on a mental health-care system that was already close to a breaking point.
Two years into the pandemic, Manitoba continues to have the second-highest COVID-19 death rate in Canada. Public health experts say relatively poor health at the outset is partly to blame.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said most long-term care facilities are expected to be ready for more visitors by March 18, although staff shortage may be an issue at some facilities.
China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the nine million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant.
“If it wasn’t for myself, I wouldn’t be here today,” said Morris Neyelle, who says staff at the health centre in Délı̨nę declined to medevac him for abdominal pain. He arranged his own flight to Yellowknife.
