Young people struggle to access and afford mental health support, and the services available often the lack cultural context required to navigate issues specific to a patient's identity, one young advocate says.
From an Instagram series celebrating the women in Sariena Luy’s life back in 2015 has sprung an artist collective and grassroots organizing and social enterprise empowering women, femmes and non-binary folks.
A youth-led project backed by mental health groups offers an online curriculum for young people to explore links between cannabis and mental health and aims to provide engaging health promotion and harm reduction resources.
A 15-year-old from a Toronto theatre family who has already played Juliet in Shakespeare’s tragic love story at the Stratford Festival, Eponine Lee is forging an impressive creative career while balancing the demands of high school.
Young people have less to unlearn than adults and much to contribute, says Erin Brubacher, a theatre director who collaborates often, including in her frequent work with teens, which the Toronto Arts Foundation recognized last week.
A long history of targeted drug law enforcement has left some in Canada’s Black communities wary of cannabis despite it now being legal, and it's a slow process to undo that trauma-informed stigma.
Since Toronto’s mayor last opened the city’s proclaimed Year of Public Art, the public sphere has largely been off-limits, a mix of COVID-19 precautions and icy weather reducing communal contact.
