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MP Doherty receives 2017 Ontario Pyschological Assoc. public service award Monica LAMB-YORSKI Staff Writer
Cariboo-Prince George Member of Parliament Todd Doherty received the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) 2017 Public Service Award Thursday, Nov. 2. The OPA Award recognizes the work done by public officials to help the most vulnerable amongst – those individuals and their family members who suffer from behavioural and developmental problems including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), chronic occupational stress and addictions. “I am truly honoured and humbled in receiving this award. Although, I struggle with accepting an award when we have so many that are still suffering in
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Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty was honoured Thursday with the 2017 Ontario Psychological Association’s Public Service Award. silence, so many that feel that taking their own life is the only way out of the pain,” Doherty said. “I will continue to use whatever platform is afforded to
TSB tackles substance abuse The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is recommending that Transport Canada work with the aviation industry and employee representatives to develop and implement requirements for a comprehensive substance abuse program. The details are in the investigation report (A15P0081) released Thursday into the fatal 2015 in-flight breakup of a cargo aircraft operated by Carson Air Ltd. On 13 April 2015, the Carson Air Swearingen SA-226-TC Metro II was carrying freight from Vancouver International Airport to Prince George Airport, British Columbia, with a crew of two pilots on board. About six minutes after departure, the aircraft disappeared from radar. Its last known position was approximately 15 nautical miles
north of the airport at an altitude of about 7500 feet. Ground searchers found aircraft wreckage on steep, mountainous, snow-covered terrain later in the day. The aircraft had experienced a catastrophic in-flight breakup. Both the captain and first officer were fatally injured, and the aircraft was destroyed. The investigation determined that the aircraft entered a steep dive, then accelerated to a high speed which exceeded the aircraft’s structural limits and led to an in-flight breakup. Subsequent toxicology testing indicated that the captain had consumed a significant amount of alcohol on the day of the occurrence. As a result, alcohol intoxication almost certainly played a role in the events leading up to the accident.
me to ensure those who are suffering know it is okay to say, ‘I am not well’, it is okay to ask for help and that the help they seek will be there in their time of
need.” OPA chief executive officer Janet Kasperski praised Doherty in a letter, writing “you are truly a political superstar whose innate
sense of caring for others shines through in all that you do.” Doherty’s Private Members Bill, C-211, calls on the federal government to develop a national strategy for PTSD. It currently sits at second reading in the Senate. “This is needed from coast to coast,” Doherty has said in previous interviews about a PTSD national strategy. “We are looking to develop some constant care or diagnosis for those who put their uniforms on every day to serve the communities and our country — the front line workers that really need help.” The enactment of the bill, Doherty said, would require the Minister of Health to convene a conference with the Minister of National
Defence, the Minister of Veterans Affairs, provincial and territorial government representatives responsible for health and representatives of the medical community and patients’ groups for the purpose of developing a comprehensive federal framework to address the challenges
of recognizing the symptoms and providing timely diagnosis and treatment of PTSD. Doherty continues to serve the Conservative Party as its shadow minister for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and as critic for the Asia-Pacific Gateway file.
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