The Crisis Assistance and Response (CARE) service is a community-based, trauma-informed service for anyone experience distress related to substance use, public intoxication, thoughts of suicide, menta...

Setting The Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is an academic, tertiary care hospital that lacked policies related to unregulated substance use, harm reduction, ...

Overdose deaths are trending down, but BC is still in the thick of a crisis. Here’s what the data tells us.

The East Coast Prison Justice Society says fatality inquiries should be mandatory in deaths involving police.

Halifax has launched a new civilian team to help people in distress in the Dartmouth area as an alternative to calling police. The pilot project called CARE — Crisis Assistance and Response — began Mo...

Job vacancy for the role of Community Crisis Responder

Call for Immediate Moratorium on Police Deployment to Wellness Checks in Nova Scotia

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Do we need to have a fully uniformed police officer sitting in the emergency department with a person who is not exhibiting any outward violent tendencies?

Todd Battis speaks with privacy lawyer David Fraser about Canada's Bill C-63, which aims to protect Canadians against online harm.

A one-year investigation found the county often sends police instead of mental health professionals to help people in crisis

Many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first responders often answer 911 calls for mental health crises.

Given the link between public opinion and governmental accountability, it is important to understand public attitudes toward mental health outreach in…

“I think a lot of people simply assume that more money for the police will mean safer communities,” said co-author Akwasi Owusu-Bempah. “We’re demonstrating that that’s not the case.”

The question of why Toronto police did not intervene on Forcillo before Yatim’s 2013 death was a key focus of the inquest; jurors heard he pointed his service weapon at

Many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first responders often answer 911 calls for mental health crises.

More than 700 HRM residents, dozens of businesses, organizations signed letter that was sent to Halifax regional council Monday.