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Curtis Gillespie worked with the Canadian Mental Health Association and Catholic Social Services prior to embarking upon his writing career. He is the author of four books, including the memoir Playing Through and the novel Crown Shyness. His magazine writing on politics, science, travel and the arts has earned him numerous National and Western Magazine Awards. He has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta and at MacEwan University, and is on faculty at the Banff Centre. He lives in Edmonton with wife and two daughters.
The Stelmach government's closed-door decision to remove 246 beds from Alberta Hospital Edmonton, and redistribute them without a detailed plan, demonstrates that mental illness is not treated in Alberta with the same level of service, care, and dignity afforded other serious ill
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