Living with Suicide: A Community Dialogue
January 23, 2025
11:15 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., MT
Mathison Hall Events Centre (MTH 306)
Join the Community Mental Health and Well-Being Strategy for an open, hopeful dialogue about depression, suicide and how we can support each other as a community. Featuring Anna Mehler Paperny, author of Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me. Panel to follow with members of the UCalgary community, moderated by Mara Grunau, CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Alberta Division, home of the Centre for Suicide Prevention.
A resource fair and free pizza lunch will take place from 11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m., our main event starts at 12 p.m.
Submit your questions anonymously and in advance here.
About the speaker
Anna Mehler Paperny is an award-winning reporter for Reuters based in Toronto. She’s chased stories ranging from the opioid crisis to migration, from post-quake Haiti to Guantanamo Bay. She’s written for the Kingston Whig-Standard, the Edmonton Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Maclean’s Magazine, and has been a staff reporter at The Globe and Mail and a reporter-editor for Global News, where she developed globalnews.ca’s award-winning Investigative Data Desk. Her work on deaths in Canadian prisons won an RTDNA Dan McArthur Award for investigative journalism. Her debut book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me, was a national bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.