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Partners: Canadian Mental Health Association
Ontario Remediation Services is far from the only organization working around illness, crime, and death. We’re part of a whole industry, involving social workers, property managers, police, pest...
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On Post-Traumatic Stress, First Responders, and Bio-Cleaning
Recently, a couple of us at ORS attended a talk called Heroes Are Human, put on by The Tema Conter Memorial Trust. The Trust is named after a young Toronto woman who was raped and brutally murdered 25...
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Hoarding, Clutter, or Collection?
We’ve talked a number of times about hoarding, the compulsive need to collect and keep objects. It’s a highly complex condition, especially since so many of us (to a greater or lesser extent) have “too...
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Anger in the Holding Cells
People will go to strange lengths when they’re angry. At ORS, we see the effects that anger can have, in many different ways. A particularly concentrated example of that – and a particularly strange...
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Substance Abuse, Part 1: Drugs
In this job, we are forever coming in late, right at the end of things. We see the effects, but never the causes. We see the pool of blood, but not the gun that caused it. It can be a limited way of...
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Substance Abuse, Part 2: Alcohol
This job exposes us to many parts of the world most people don’t see. It’s not so much that they don’t know – we all know crime and death exist – but most people are happy to simply not think about it....
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