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Past Media Features
CMHA
Toronto's submission to the second round of public
consultations for the Review of Social Assistance in
Ontario
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail, January 9, 2012 in response to "Police
learn how to deal with the mentally ill in crisis"
"The
Globe folio on the law and mental health raises an
important public policy issue -- the degree to which the
justice system should be the default response when
mental health services are in short supply..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe and Mail, December 10, 2011
in response to "The
poor are doing better than you think"
"Having
DVDs and cable TV is not really what we should be
focusing on when addressing income inequality. The Pew
Research Centre published a study last summer showing
while whites in the US had a median net work of
$113,149,..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail, December 16, 2011
in response to "A
'hiccup' could put Ontario off course as Moody's peeps"
"The
threat of a Moody's downgrade should not stop the
provincial government from making investments that will
bend the cost curve downward and improve services. For
example, there is research showing that case management
for people living with serious mental illness reduces
costly hospitalizations by over 50%,..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe and Mail, November 29, 2011
in response to "Ford
shows constraint without imposing crushing cuts"
"It
is extremely shortsighted for Toronto to balance its
budget by closing shelters that house men and women
living with mental health and addiction problems,..."
more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe and Mail, November 22, 2011
in response to "Days
of blindly topping up medicare are over"
"The
next health accord should be far more specific about
promoting health and shifting from funding acute care
services in hospitals to a community focused system that
helps people manage chronic disease and stay out of
hospital..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Toronto Star, Nov 13, 2011,
in response to "The
health care sky is not falling"
"Michael
Rachlis is correct in pointing out that health care
spending is actually declining as a percentage of
provincial spending..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail, Nov 4, 2011,
in response to "There
is no crime epidemic"
"Jeffrey
Simpson is correct in asserting that the federal
government's "tough on crime strategy" will
not work for people who live with mental illness and are
involved with the justice system..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the editor of the Globe & Mail,
October 5, 2011,
in response to this
week's articles on teen suicide
and the October 4, 2011 article featuring
Bob
Rae's statement
regarding our need for a National Suicide Prevention
Strategy
"Kudos
to Bob Rae, the Globe, and parliamentarians for focusing
a public debate on suicide and mental health..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Toronto Star, September 21, 2011,
in response to "Hit
them with statistics"
"Recent
Ontario Public Accounts figures show that Ontario spends
only 2.52% of LHIN transfers..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Toronto Star, September 1, 2011,
in response to "How
the mayor could save 100 million"
"Improving
access to services and supports makes sense, but the
major impediment to downsizing the hostel system is the
lack of affordable and supportive housing in Toronto for
people living with mental illness..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail, September 1,
2011, in response to "Latest
mental health strategy draft doesn't go far enough"
"Andre
Picard is wrong to suggest the mental health strategy
needs to choose between brain science and social
science. There is ample research indicating that
community supports and psychiatric treatment promote
recovery..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter, published in the Globe & Mail on
Tuesday August 16th, in response to "Medicare
shouldn't mean monopoly"
"The
Globe is correct in asserting that accessibility is a
major problem in health care. While more competition in
providing high volume procedures could improve
efficiency..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail Monday July 27th,
in response to "Mental
health courts guide offenders to treatment, not a jail
cell"
"Since
amendments to the criminal code were passed in 1991,
more people with mental illness who have been accused of
minor crimes have entered the forensic mental health
system..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Toronto Star, published Monday July
18th,
in response to Carol Goar's article "Ontario
takes a backward step on mental health"
"Carol
Goar is correct when she notes that the Ministry of
Health's decision to divest the psychiatric patient
advocacy program (PPAO) was made without consulting
stakeholders. But she is incorrect in asserting that the
Canadian Mental Health Association has a conflict of
interest..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail, Monday July 4th,
in response to "Publicly
funded home care appeals to Ontario voters and
politicians"
"Home
care for the 3,000 people living with serious mental
illness who are on the wait list for supportive housing
in
Toronto
could start with providing them with housing..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Toronto Star, published Sunday
June 27,
2011, in response to "Ontario
launches $257M strategy to deal with kids' mental health"
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Globe & Mail, Thursday, June
2, 2011, in response to "For
$41-billion, Canadians deserve a straight answer"
"The
Health Accord did not buy a shift to chronic disease
management and community care. A recent report for the
Central East LHIN showed that we have higher
hospitalization rates for frail elderly and less
community care that would avoid hospitalizations..." more
Steve
Lurie's letter to the Toronto Star published May 23,
2011, in response to "Self-fulfilling
prophets of health care doom"
Dr.
Kwame McKenzie's op ed article "Good
jobs a lifeline for people with mental illness",
published in the Toronto Star, Saturday May 28, 2011
"Dr.
Kwame McKenzie's op ed is absolutely correct about
the importance of work opportunities for people living
with mental illness, where the unemployment rate can be
as high as 90%..." more
Steve
Lurie
’s letter to the Globe & Mail, Friday May 27,
2011, in response to "As
Canada looks south, US judges look north"
"US
Supreme Court Justice Kennedy has obviously not read
last fall's report by Howard Sapers, the federal
correctional services investigator, that showed there
had been 130 additional deaths of mentally ill
inmates in our federal prisons since the death of
Ashley Smith..." more
Steve
Lurie’s letter to the Toronto Star, May 24, 2011, in
response to "PC
government would add $6.1 billion more into health
care"
While
Mr. Hudak’s pledge is welcome, it would be helpful for
all three parties to commit to investing in mental
health care...more
Steve
Lurie’s letter to the Globe and Mail published, May
13, 2011, in
response to "Bell's
$10-Million donation hailed as a mental-health
game-changer"
Steve Lurie’s letter to the Toronto Star, written April
9, 2011, in response to Toronto
Star article "Ignatieff
says health care is all about who you trust"
published April 8, 2011.
"While
it is encouraging to see all federal parties committing
to maintain the annual 6% increases in health transfers
to provincial governments"...more
Steve
Lurie’s letter to the Globe & Mail, written March
15, 2011, in response to an article about wait times for
mental health care:
"While
wait times for hips, knees, MRI’s heart disease
and cancer have improved due to federal and provincial
investments in wait time funding..." more
Globe
& Mail article “Doctors
urge Health Care Action Plan to thwart 'looming
crisis'” published February 28, 2011
Steve
Lurie's letter to the editor in response to
"Doctors urge Health Care Action Plan to thwart
'looming crisis'" - It was heartening to see
the CMA call for mental health reform as only 3 in 10
Canadians are able to access mental health care... more
Globe
& Mail article on
Health Care Wait Times, published February 9, 2011
Steve
Lurie’s letter to the editor in response to article on
Health Care Wait Times
Globe
& Mail article “Why
Canada’s prisons can’t cope with flood of mentally
ill inmates”, published January 26, 2011
Steve
Lurie’s letter to the editor in response to “Why
Canada’s prisons can’t cope”, published January
28, 2011
CBC
Radio’s “The
Current” January 7th program looked
at the mental health of Canadians. To listen,
click
here
The
CBC did a follow-up national phone-in show on January 13th,
featuring Steven Page and Dr. David Goldbloom. To
listen,
click
here
Globe
& Mail article
“Take
mental illness out of the Arizona
debate”,
published January 19, 2011
Steve
Lurie’s letter to the editor
in response to
“Take
mental illness out of the Arizona debate”,
published January 20, 2011.
Click
here to view
Steve Lurie on TVO's "The Agenda" with Steve
Paikin on Friday January 11, 2011. The topic is
"Ontario's Mental Health Crisis", based on The
Select Committee Report on Mental Health &
Addictions.
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