Tag Archives: stigma

In a five-part series titled First Responders in Crisis, Global News is looking at some of the issues that continue to loom around mental health and first responders. We’ll explore what’s being done to help first responders and what has changed over the decade. December will mark 10 years since …

HIV activists are marking World AIDS Day by urging Ottawa to help stop a global backslide in progress on stemming infections and stigma. “It’s clear to us that this government is seized of the issue, but the truth of the matter is, no movement is happening quickly enough for people …

Patricia Pyrka joined her first ballet class at the age of 37 with zero dancing experience under her belt. This fall, she’s headed to the National School of Ballet’s one-year teacher training program hoping to dispell the stigma against older ballet dancers and getting more of them involved. “It’s absolutely possible for an adult to …

David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated with the disease.  “All these years later, it is still seen as being the gay disease, and it’s stuff like that that people still point …