Dear Gossips,
Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day. For every text message sent, long distance call made, and RT on Twitter, 5 cents will be donated to mental health programs. Last year over $3 million was raised on one day.
At least 1 in 5 Canadians experiences a form of mental illness at some point in their lives – every one of us has a family member, friend or colleague who will experience mental illness. But mental health funding is modest relative to other health care issues – mental illness represents 15% of Canada’s health care burden but receives only 5% of health care funding. Just one-third of Canadians who need mental health services actually receive them. Mental illness is the number one cause of workplace disability in Canada – accounting for 30% of disability claims and 70% of disability costs. Mental illness costs the Canadian economy $51 billion each year in lost productivity – every day, 500,000 Canadians are absent from work due to a form of mental illness.
To learn more click here and Let’s Talk.
So an appeals court in California told Prop 8 to F-CK OFF yesterday. And an organisation that calls itself One Million Moms is lobbying JC Penney to drop Ellen Degeneres as its spokesperson because she’s gay and, according to them, gay is offensive to the people who shop at JC Penney. JC Penney told One Million Moms to F-CK OFF. Ellen addressed it on her show. Video is below. On the other hand, Santorum is surging. So there’s that.
If only sports and gossip meant more outside of sports and gossip. It’s my way of telling you I take my job very seriously.
Yours in gossip,
Lainey
