Marketplace Brain Training: Mind Games Classroom Favourites
Can you train your brain to be better? In a powerful journey into the world of memory, Marketplace host Tom Harrington explores the fears of many Canadians, and his own, when it comes to memory loss. Having lost his parents and father-in-law to Alzheimer’s, Tom puts himself, and an industry, to the test. From popular brain training games to new technology that ...
- 2015
- 00:43:32
- 15-17
- Added on: 09/02/2015
The Fifth Estate Broken Heroes
Every Remembrance Day, we honour the sacrifices made by those who were killed or physically injured serving their country in wartime. But, what of those with the crippling but invisible wounds of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? In this Fifth Estate documentary, Gillian Findlay introduces us to three Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan. Jeff, Matt and Dave all speak candidly ...
- 2009
- 00:42:11
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Fifth Estate Bus 1170: A Greyhound Nightmare
A seemingly random decision, to take the Greyhound from B.C. to Winnipeg rather than a friend’s offer of a plane ticket, would cost 22-year-old Tim McLean his life and profoundly change the lives of those who witnessed his murder. On Greyhound 1170, Vincent Li, a diagnosed schizophrenic on his own randomly chosen bus journey, sat beside McLean and then, obeying ...
- 2009
- 00:41:12
- 15-17
- Added on: 03/26/2014
The National Canadian hospital takes action to prevent delirium
The Hamilton Health Sciences Centre is taking action to try and prevent delirium before the condition takes hold of the patient. It's being done using a program developed in the U.S. called the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP). Each year in Canada 200,000 people who go to hospital may experience delirium, a serious disturbance in mental ability that can leave ...
- 2018
- 00:06:37
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/13/2018
The Nature of Things Changing Your Mind
This program is a fascinating follow-up to the recent bestselling documentary, The Brain that Changes Itself. Once again, Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge showcases some very compelling neurological cases to illustrate how the changing brain plays an important role in treating mental diseases and disorders. This time he explores the latest research that offers hope to those suffering ...
- 2010
- 00:44:21
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - November 2011 Coping with the Stress of Graduation
Going to school for the first time can be a nervous time for many students, but so can graduating. There are academic pressures, and financial ones, and sometimes they can be unbearable. In this News in Review story we’ll look at the class of 2011 in one Canadian school and at a new program designed to help students cope with ...
- 2011
- 00:15:40
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/2011
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The National Crisis of suicide and violence leaves remote community begging for help
There's a crisis of violence and suicide in northern Canada, according to the remote community of Pangnirtung, which is now begging for help.
- 2018
- 00:02:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/03/2018
News in Review - December 2017 Crisis on Campus: Mental Health Demands Surge
There’s an increasing demand for mental health services on college and university campuses across Canada. That’s because the latest statistics show that one in five post-secondary students suffers from some kind of mental health issue. It can range from feeling overwhelmed to depression and suicidal thoughts. The number of students seeking counselling is multiplying so fast, colleges and universities are ...
- 2017
- 00:12:48
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/20/2017
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The Fifth Estate Cross Lake: "This Is Where I Live"
Last winter, five young people killed themselves in the northern Indigenous community of Cross Lake, Manitoba. In the weeks that followed 140 more attempted suicide. Cross Lake declared a state of emergency. The Fifth Estate went to Cross Lake to find out why and spent nine months there, talking to people, filming – and giving young people their own cameras to tell ...
- 2017
- 00:59:24
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/26/2017
Enquête Cyber Manhunt
Eighteen months after Chinese student Lin Jun was brutally killed and dismembered, a group of Internet users was attempting to track down Luka Rocco Magnotta, whom they also linked to videos on the web showing kittens being slowly suffocated in agony. In this documentary, we meet these passionate trackers and witness a re-enactment of their Magnotta investigation. See how they carefully ...
- 2012
- 00:38:50
- 15-17
- Added on: 09/24/2013
