Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)

Workplace bullying, also known in Canada as “psychological harassment,” occurs when employees are the target of repeated, unreasonable behaviour that intimidates or humiliates them or their group.

A synopsis of the two day symposium on the mental health of women health care workers that took place in November 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia

Expalins how women and men experience and apply stigma differently.

Describes research that establishes a strong association between trauma, violence and mental health.

The Canadian Wiomens Health Network's response to the Mental Health Commission of Canada's (MHCC) first draft framework of a Canadian mental health strategy (released in January 2009). 

Discusses Betty Kovacic's exhibit, A Roomful of Missing Women, which consists of 50 portraits of missing and mudered women from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Proposes a national birthing strategy to help address a shortage of maternity healthcare professionals and a looming maternity care crisis.

Discusses how gender-based policies can help limit the spread of tobacco use among girls and women and improve their lives.

Discusses Health Canada's approval of silicone breast implants (granting licences to two manufacturers), and the ongoing health safety concerns of these implants.

Discusses The Children's Fitness Tax Credit, which was announced in the 2006 Federal budget, and asks who does this tax credit include, and who is left out? The article also asks, will this tax credit work?