A long-anticipated three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline will come online in 2023, Canada’s telecommunications regulator said Wednesday.
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Tamar Braxton Speaks Out After Suicide Attempt, Says She’s Been Exploited by ‘Toxic’ Reality TV Industry
RELATED STORIES Two weeks after Tamar Braxton was hospitalized in Los Angeles for attempting suicide, the former Real co-host has released a powerful statement about reality television’s impact on her mental health. “I was betrayed, taken advantage of, overworked, and underpaid,” Braxton wrote Thursday on social media. “I wrote a letter over two months ago […]
ISIS claims responsibility for suicide bombing at Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli (PHOTOS)
The Islamic State terrorist group has claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli, which have left at least three people dead and over half-a-dozen injured. Three armed gunmen stormed the foreign ministry of Libya’s internationally recognized government in Tripoli on Tuesday morning, killing three employees and injuring at least ten […]
MP’s ‘mock suicide’ in House of Commons sparks inevitable Twitter outrage
It all got a bit much for Labour MP Clive Lewis who decided to simulate shooting himself in the head during a House of Commons debate on the finance bill. The MP for Norwich South, and shadow treasury minister, was filmed shaking his head and laughing while his colleague Anneliese Dodds was interrupted by a […]
A call for hope during a time of pain: Nunavik looks for solutions to suicide crisis
People in Kuujjuaq, Que., buried two young people Tuesday — the latest victims of apparent suicide — the very day Inuit leaders gathered in Nunavik’s administrative centre to figure out how to respond to the latest spate of suicides in the territory.
‘No proof of crime’: Dead & duct-taped Saudi sisters found on banks of Hudson could be… a suicide?
Two Saudi sisters found dead and duct-taped together on the banks of New York’s Hudson River were seen praying near the water hours before their bodies were found, in a baffling case that police say shows no signs of foul play. The sisters, Rotana Farea (22) and Tala Farea (16) were discovered on October 24 […]
Young Inuit leaders optimistic about future, despite Nunavik’s bleak suicide statistics
“It’s really, really time to invest in these younger generations,” says Alicia Aragutak, 27, who chairs Nunavik’s suicide prevention committee.
Harley Quinn: Here’s when Margot Robbie will RETURN as Suicide Squad favourite
Today, news is abound that Kaley Cuoco will voice the iconic character in a new DC TV series, but what of the big screen? Robbie played Harley in Suicide Squad and, despite the film receiving generally poor reviews, she went down well with fans and critics alike. Birds of Prey is currently in the works […]
Mysterious Good Samaritan leaves handwritten suicide prevention messages on Lions Gate Bridge
Dozens of handwritten notes have appeared on the railings of the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, offering words of encouragement, quotes and pictures intended to help prevent suicides.
Boris Johnson says Theresa May has ‘wrapped a suicide vest’ around the UK constitution with her Brexit strategy
REUTERS/Leon Neal/Pool Boris Johnson launched a fresh attack on Theresa May’s Brexit strategy, saying that she “wrapped a suicide vest around the British constitution” and handed the detonator to the EU. He added that the UK had handed EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier a “jemmy with which Brussels can choose — at any time — […]
