Tag: mental health
What’s driving spike in ‘anti-social’ conduct in London-area classrooms?
Disturbing behaviour by students in London-area school classrooms are at all-time high, according to Thames Valley District school boardâs top official. Bill Tucker, the London-based board’s interim education director, spoke bluntly to trustees this week about what’s happening with students â including a child in his own family â as young people struggle to overcome […]
Charities benefit from 100 Good Men Who Give a Damn
Don Day said he got a good feeling after his new group, 100 Good Men Who Give a Damn, voted at its inaugural meeting to give the local Meals on Wheels program $10,500. With the enthusiasm of the men and the variety of them at different ages and stages of life, he said he thinks […]
Sentencing delayed for man who stabbed stranger in random Richmond Row attack
The sentencing hearing for a London man who pleaded guilty to a random attack on a stranger on Richmond Row has been delayed pending a potential order for a psychiatric assessment.Â
Play on? Video games may actually help boost your brain: London researchers
Video games may boost your brainpower, but donât expect them to improve your mental health, a new study by Western University researchers says. The research is part of Westernâs Brain and Body Study, a collaboration with Science and Industry Museum for the Manchester Science Festival. The online study, which analyzed cognition and its links to […]
Baranyai: Quebec proposal takes health care rationing to new level
If trying to lure doctors to a community smells desperate, reassigning them has the stench of battlefield medicine, Robin Baranyai argues.