Bell Media Brings Mental Health to the Forefront With Feature Programming on Bell Let's Talk Day, January 28

--taken from: Sys-Con Media

TheLoop.ca will feature a variety of mental health-related content in support of Bell Let's Talk Day. In a series of videos, psychiatrist Ariel Dalfen examines the truth about seasonal affective disorder, explains why depression can be contagious, and offers guidance on how to help a friend in need. Contributor Neil Hedley reveals five reasons not to be afraid of talking to a therapist. And resident music writer Patrick Pentland (Sloan), who has experienced mental illness first-hand, shares his advice on how to cope with panic attacks and anxiety.

The article written by Patrick is here: Let’s Talk…about my anxiety issues

--taken from: Sys-Con Media

Knox follows his own path

--taken from: The Record (read more here)

by Neil McDonald

Though Knox could conceivably have played all the instruments himself, he said he wanted to pull in a number of his musical friends to help put the album together.

"I would always have friends come by," he said, "because I find it's really important to play music with people even when you're recording, if you can. So I was lucky enough to have Andrew Scott from Sloan come down and play on the whole second half of the album, basically, and a couple of the other songs, too. And my friend Darcy Yates who's in a band called Flash Lightnin' played some bass on it here and there and the Zeus guys did some harmonies, too, because we'd always be overlapping in the studio."

--taken from: The Record (read more here)

Legally blind Ottawa photographer wants his work to speak for itself

--taken from: Metro News (read more here)

by: Jen Traplin

Just more than a year ago, he launched his own company — CaptiVision Photography — and has already been hired for some big events like last year’s Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival, where he was one of the main photographers for Sloan and Raine Maida.

--taken from: Metro News (read more here)