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Mental illness is not a crime  -  Mental Illness is not a crime. But for those living with a severe, debilitating brain disorder, it can be a life sentence battling symptoms such as ...

Mental illness is not a crime  - Following police killings, the media often spin stories about how officers fired because they felt threatened--but as Hannah Wolfe reports, the cops are the real  ...

Mentally ill treated like criminals, not patients  - We should treat mental illness like a health problem, not a crime. Why is it that only with mental illness we somehow believe it's OK to shackle people ...

New law would not have saved my son : Bill C-54 is stigmatizing, punitive and does not reflect an accurate understanding of serious mental illness . The creation of a high-risk category, based on the brutality of the crime, for example, is not founded in any evidence. Although the bill ...