The Men’s Project

The Men’s Project is a non-profit charitable men’s counselling agency that has been providing services to men and their families since 1997. They provide individual and couple counselling, as well as a specialized healing program for men who have experienced sexual or physical abuse as children, anger management, emotional intelligence and fathering. Their services are […]

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#TackleDomesticViolence

@nfl has thrown a #hailmary and is calling on someone who will put an end to domestic violence to catch it. So how do we go about “tackling domestic violence”? NFL Commentator James Brown   In an American study of a large national representative sample, nearly 1 in 5 men reported intimate partner violence directed […]

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Shoulder to Shoulder Project

Movember Canada is accepting video applications for their Men’s Health Innovation Challenge. So the Fathers’ Mental Health Network got together and created the Shoulder to Shoulder Project. This proposal uses a general way men communicate with each other (shoulder to shoulder, meaning while engaged in activity) to facilitate greater conversations about mental health. We continue […]

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Men Heart Sports

Margaret Wente’s G&M article “Watching men watching sports” suggests that men experience sports far more fanatically than women and that sports is an arena for men to bond and engage with other men. True, some men love their sports and the loyalty, joy and agony some men experience through their team, and its wins and […]

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More Than A Haircut

The Globe and Mail‘s story of Ontario Judge Donald McLeod is not just about a boy who grew up “in the projects” but also about a boy who grew up without a father. Luckily Donald had a strong and supportive mother; he also discovered a male role model and mentor in Mr. Lowenstein, a Bay […]

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