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What Lies Ahead

My mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s

A Tribunal Born of Fear and Hope

How a Canadian judge forced Slobodan Milosevic to face his accusers

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Rona Maynard

Rona Maynard is a memoirist My Mother’s Daughter (McClelland and Stewart, 2007), speaker and teacher of memoir writing. She has been a mental health advocate since 1997, when she was editor of Chatelaine.

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Rona Maynard

The Fight of Her Life

A firebrand journalist wages war with her newspaper and herself September 2012
When The Globe and Mail launched a 28-part series on mental illness in June 2008, I was one of countless readers who felt like cheering. Those of us who had struggled with an illness of the mind—in my case depression—had been waiting for the day when our invisible affliction would command equal time with heart disease and…