“Everybody saw something, but it’s nobody’s responsibility,” the coroner told the specialist educator who was first on the front lines of Isaac Brouillard Lessard’s case. “At any point in that year, a trigger could have caused you to be Maureen … and that bothers me,” coroner Géhane Kamel said. Mylène Piché was the primary case … Read more
Stakeholders in charge of Intensive Community Monitoring (SIM) of Isaac Brouillard Lessard, in Mauricie, testified to the difficulties they encountered in this matter. During the third day of hearings of the public inquiry into the death of Maureen Breau, attention was focused on the psychosocial monitoring that Isaac Brouillard Lessard received while living in the … Read more
During the third day of hearings of the commission of inquiry into the death of Maureen Breau and her attacker, the psychiatrist who accompanied Isaac Brouillard Lessard until the tragic day of March 27 testified about the events leading up to the death of his patient. dr. Hélène Poirier was assigned to Isaac Brouillard Lessard’s … Read more
The new accommodation center l’Équilibre, built in the former Chicoutimi prison, is ready to open its doors and host ex-prisoners, people facing justice, as well as people with mental disorders. There are 56 beds in the building built in 1928. Eight will be intended for people in crisis situations, who need urgent and one-time help … Read more
“It was like I was an alien living on earth,” recalls Annie Kent. It wasn’t until decades of what she calls “misdiagnoses” that she finally understood why she felt the way she did as a child. In 2022, she was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism. I always knew there was something … Read more