MONTREAL – With the fifth annual Bell Let's Talk Day some two weeks away, national spokesperson Clara Hughes and Québec spokesperson Michel Mpambara announced plans to host a nationwide webcast to unite students across Canada in a conversation about mental health.
On January 28, Hughes will be at Jesse Ketchum Public School in Toronto and Mpambara will be in Montréal at École secondaire Dalbé-Viau, speaking with students and encouraging them to become champions for mental health. Through Cisco's high-definition video collaboration technologies Cisco TelePresence and WebEx Enabled TelePresence, youth from schools around Canada will virtually join Hughes, Mpambara and the students of Jesse Ketchum and Dalbé-Viau for this unprecedented event.
In Toronto, Hughes will be joined by TSN host Michael Landsberg and comedian Kevin Breel. Joining Mpambara in Montréal will be Olympian Alex Genest, Josiane Babin of the Mental Illness Foundation's Partners for Life program, and NRJ radio and television host Anais Favron, who will moderate the event.
"We look forward to using the power of technology to welcome thousands of students across the country as they join us in the conversation on Bell Let's Talk Day," said Mary Deacon, chair of Bell Let's Talk, in the news release. "With the examples of Clara and Michel leading the way, young people will be encouraged to speak freely and share their stories to help end the stigma of mental illness."
