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Crazy Business

Item number (ISN):

422719

Series title:

This Morning : [excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

422719

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAY, Elizabeth

Accession:

2010-0012

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1997-11-23

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, Elizabeth Gray

Description:

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This is a documentary, broadcast on the Sunday edition of the CBC radio series THIS MORNING, about a group of people who call themselves "the crazy people". It begins with actuality of a meeting of the Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses, an organization of people who have survived psychiatric illnesses and have managed to go on to succeed in business. Subjects discussed include: questioning the definition of “crazy”; people discharged from mental hospitals starting in the late 1960s when society began to adopt the view that people were better off in society; efforts by such survivors to start businesses so that they could get jobs and hire other such survivors; the Gerstein Centre which runs a help line; the lack of non-hospital crisis beds in Toronto; other means to help people who are in psychiatric distress; and the view that by itself medication is not enough to help mental health problems. Actuality includes: a telephone call by a woman to a Toronto help line; and people at a drop-in centre for the homeless in Toronto. Elizabeth Gray accompanies an A-Way courier walking on his route. Interviewees include people who have suffered or still suffer from psychiatric problems. Among them are David Reville, one of the founders of the movement, who was diagnosed with an unspecified personality disorder; Alan Davis, dispatcher at A-Way Express, a courier company in Toronto; community organizer Jacques Tremblay of Able Enterprises in Simcoe Ontario; Paul Quinn, executive director of the Gerstein Centre; Street Health nurse Barbara Craig and an A-Way courier. <26mn 21s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Third track on the CD.

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Vault ISN:

508050

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2044AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

70:21

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.

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