Are these death tragic? Yes. But 40 deaths a year isn't something that's going to sound a call to arms. Perhaps money would be best put toward more mental health services for men, whose rate of suicides far outstrips that of women but have significantly fewer resources specifically for them.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/suicide-canada-key-statistics-infographic.html

They could start by banning advertising of sports betting.

You can't watch any sport for 2 minutes without having some sports betting site shoved in your face.

Biggest promoter behind this crap:

https://www.catenamedia.com/

They own a lot of sites that push traffic towards gambling. They are full of themselves about how ethical they are but every C level meeting is full of “Do now, ask for forgiveness later” and every ethical rule they have for themselves quite literally only exists to wipe bums. They push CA and US governments hard to allow sports (and later all types of) gambling because they're basically the professional promoters of gambling.

I worked there at a high level, and even though I didn’t do much during my tenure there, I do feel ashamed for being a part of it all, they’re the worst. They push this ethical gambling website but there is no such thing and they know it because they've said so multiple times. It is such a shameful scam, really.

My biggest issue is that almost all forms of gambling in Canada are run by governments, and governments are well aware of problems gambling causes in people's lives ... yet they do sfa about it because of the revenues it adds to gov't coffers.

Governments should NEVER be directly involved in running casinos, online gambling, lotteries, etc. Make them private AND regulate the fuck out of them.

yeah that's all well and good, but prostitution is still against the law. and to think I moved here from the States because I thought this country was "progressive"