Events concerning mental health 2020

 March 2021

10-13 The World Congress of psychiatry in Bangkok, Thailand of the World Psychiatric Association which was to be held in october 2020.

December 2020

The Movement for global Mental Health will aparently NOT hold its meeting which was to be held in Chennai, India on dec. 4 and 5

November 2020

The 6th World Congress of the World Association o Cultural Psychiatry in Rotterdam will take place in 2021

13-14 on-line "Global Mental Health Today and Tomorrow" by Generation Mental Health

10 on-line "In our own voice" by GMH Peer Network

October 2020

12 to 24 Virtual meetings of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent psychiatry, free for medical students and psychiatry residents.  Register now on www.aacap.org

10 on-line "in our own voice" by GMH Peer network

8 Low-Beer conference on-line at 7PM using GoogleMeet with Dr Miller from Vermont : www.amiquebec.org 

For other updates, consult : www.globallyminded.org/home/global-mental-health-events-list/ 

September 2020

30 on-line European conference on mental health

25 sept to 27 oct Journees de la culture in Quebec

23 sept to 4 oct. : montrealblackfilm.com

My suggestions : 

Paris Stalingrad

Pushout : The criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

One-way ticket

Pour ne plus mourir

Vision portraits

The Valley

The last tree

Burning light

No individual tickets, on-line passports at 49$, most films can be viewed in Canada only. in French or in English only.

378,400 patients left hospital emergency without seeing a doctor this year!

 IEDM (l'institut économique de Montréal) published a studyin january 2020 of why more than 1000 patients a day leave emergency admission without being treated.  Waiting more than 4 months for not urgent surgeryis the case of 18 % of surgeries in Canada, 3% in the United States, 6 % in Switzerland and 0% in Germany!  The current statistics are much worse because of the Covid 19 pandemic.  

Mario Nelson-Boucher commits suicide

 He had spent 20 years in federal and provincial jails, so it was a difficult case for the NAHA Certer.  He would have needed more supervision than what Jean Brousseau and Sophie Saint-Gelais could provide.  He was sent to hospital twice and each time he was discharged.  He hung himself on June 1st 2016.  Blood samples showed the presence of cannabis, methamphetamines and the antidepressants he was prescribed.  The coroner investigated.

Another death sentence!

 Another Canadian has been condemned to death in China in a matter involving drugs.  Xu Heihong was found guilty of drug manufacture by a tribunal in Canton.  The two other Canadians were Fan Wei (trafficking, in April 2019), and Robert Lloyd Shellenberg.  More details in French at: http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/08/06

Dead after trying to run away from police

 The police was called at 10:15 on July 25 because of an altercation in front of a store.  As municipal police arrived, a 33-years-old ran away.  He was overtaken by police who used pepper spray.   Soon he was unconscious and his death was reported at hospital at 11:30.  The special investigations unit has sent 8 agents.  The Sureté du Québec is also involved.

Ejaz Choudry is killed by police!

 This is the third police incident ending with a death in a few months.  Ejaz Choudry's family asked for help because he was not taking his medication including an anti-psychotic.  The paramedics asked for police help because the 62 years-old had a knife.  Then everything happened fast in the Misssissauga appartment.  The police were shouting instructions in English, a language the victim did not understand.  On April 6, D'Andre Cambell, 26, was killed by police.  In late May, Régis Korchinski-Paquet fell from his balcony on the 26th floor as police was entering his appartment. The Special Investigations Unit is looking into the three incidents.

Legault's follies

 Prohibiting religious signs has ired muslims, sikhs and other minorities.  Taxi drivers face unfair cometition from Uber.  A high frequency train is being planned alongside highway 20 on Montreal island west of the Decarie highway.  Traffic along that corridor is high only at rush hours.  Prolonging the blue subway line east as planned would be done at great expense and benefit few people!

Preston Lockhead's murder is forgotten

 Nine years ago, Preston Lockhead and his roommate Jimmy Dean welcomed two foreiners who claimed that their truck had broken down. They claim to be Americans but speak Russian.  They insist on keeping their ID papers with them.  When Jimmy Dean woke up, the strangers were gone and Preston Lockhead was dead, with obvious signs of violence.  Dr. Evan Matches' autopsy report concludes he died of a heart condition.  The police and the justice ministry abandon the cause, to the surprise of the widow, Sally Wheeler.  Two years later, a review of the autopsy by 3 pathologists concludes he was strangled. The justice ministry was informed of the new report but it appears they never sent a copy to the police.  A review of 14 cases by the Alberta college of physicians and surgeons concludes that 13 conclusions were unreasonable!

Dr. Matches has moved to Alberquerque and he is suing the Alberta for 30,000,000 $.  The link for more details is: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fifth-estate-autopsy-did-a-killer-walk-free-1.5431705

An other Court delay

 On June 16, 1914, teenager Prashant Tiwari asked for help.  Ten days later he was dead in hospital.  His father, Rakesh Tiwari is suing Brampton hospital claiming 12,500,000 $.  On the 8th of January 2020, when the case was to be heard, Surprise!  no courtroom is available until at least 2021!

Steven Rigby's mother calls for an enquiry

 Steven Rigby's death is the consequence of an overburdened  and powerless mental health system.  The first psychiatrist who saw Steven called for hospitalisation at the Dubé Center for Mental Health in Saskatoon.  An other psychiatrist dehospitalised him two days later.  That is when he threatened policemen.  They shot him and his death was certified in hospital on december 22, 2019.  His mother, Karey Rigby-Wilcox calls for a coroner or a juditial inquiry.

Acquited of a murder charge!

 Mitra Javanmardi, who has been practicing naturopaty for more than twenty years, injected nutrients to Mr. Matern, who died as a result.  The solution was contaminated by bacteria.  Judge Louise Villeneuve wrote that the matter was not criminal.  Quebec's Appeal's Court ordered a new trial.  The Supreme Court writes that the Appeal's Court should have considered the experience and training of the accused.  Judge Richard Wagner wrote the minority opinion of the Supreme court wich would have a new trial because the injection was dangerous.  Quebec is one of the 5 provinces which do not regulate alternative medicines.

Corey Rogers dies in police custody

 Police constables Dan Forest and Cheryl Gardner were found guilty of criminal negligence causing the death of the prisoner they were bringing to his cell.  The video recordings shocked the Halifax jury.  He died asphyxiated by a hood.  The video recording is available at:http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1633964099553

He killed his brother!

 Robert Dubuc pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in november 2018 in Montreal.  Richard was sick and weak.  Robert spend several months in prison; he won't have to go back but he will be under probation for 3 years and he must do 240 hours of community service.

Acquited of his father's murder!

 Denis Oland was acquited in july 2019 at his second trial so he is free for the first time in 8 years!  The trial lasted 4 months and the judgment is 146 pages long.  A jury had found him guilty in 2015but the murder of Richard Oland raises more questions than answers.  Blood was splattered all over his office, as you would expect since he was stabbed 46 times.  Dennis Oland's expensive lifestyle was dependent on loans granted by his father ( including 500,000 $ for his divorce) .  Richard Oland would have been ready to grant an additionnal loan if it were guaranteed by a mortgage on Denis's house.  But that house was already mortgaged - a fact Richard didn't know.  Denis proved he was shopping at the time of the murder.  Judge Morisson (of the Court of Queen's bench of New Brunswick concludes there is a reasonable doubt of Denis's guilt.  The full judgement is available on http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dennis-oland-not-guilty-murder-retrial-decision-1.5216556

Keith Raniere of NXIUM found guilty

 He was accused of racketeering, of  forcing women into sexual slavery and insufficient food, of  imposing abortions and tattoos and other crimes.  NXIUM was founded in 1998 near Albany, NYand was offering "personnal growth courses". In reality it was a cult.  Besides Keith Raniere, other founders were Nancy Salzman, actor Allison Mack, and sisters Sara and Clare Bronfman (daughters of Edgar Bronfman Sr. of the Seagram empire) who supplied much money to the cult.  The verdict was rendered on june 19, 2019.