Laura Eggertson
Laura Eggertson is an Ottawa-based freelance journalist who received a Michener-Deacon Fellowship and a Canadian Institutes of Health journalism fellowship in 2012 to write about indigenous youth suicide prevention. She is also the parent and grandparent of indigenous children.
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Opinion
Canada needs a national suicide prevention strategy – because they work
Suicide prevention strategies save lives, writes guest columnist Laura Eggertson. It's time for the federal government to act on the evidence.
Canada -North |
Analysis
Nunavut should declare state of emergency over suicide crisis
An inquest into Nunavut's devastating suicide rate has laid bare the territory's lack of capacity to cope — but to trigger federal help, a territory has to ask, writes guest columnist Laura Eggertson.
Canada -North |