{"id":424280,"date":"2026-01-23T04:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:16:15","slug":"message-from-the-governor-general-on-bell-lets-talk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424280\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Governor General on Bell Let&#8217;s Talk Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 21, 2026 \/CNW\/ &#8211; Today, on Bell Let&#8217;s Talk Day, I invite all Canadians to nurture their mental health with the same care they give to their physical health. I am grateful that both are increasingly being recognized in our society as fundamental aspects of our well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Over the last two years, I had the privilege of listening to and learning from mental health practitioners and people with lived experience across the country. The voices, valuable insights and experiences I encountered are reflected in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4600491-1&amp;h=273333234&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gg.ca%2Fen%2Fgovernor-general%2Fpriorities%2Fmental-health-and-wellness%2Freport&amp;a=Promoting+Mental+Health+and+Wellness+from+Coast+to+Coast+to+Coast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Promoting Mental Health and Wellness from Coast to Coast to Coast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Promoting Mental Health and Wellness from Coast to Coast to Coast<\/a>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">For my own well-being, I like to make time to connect with friends and family, build a puzzle, or kayak if I can. Mental health is also a shared responsibility. When one of us is hurting, all of us are diminished. So, please take care of yourselves, and if you can, make some time for others, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">When we reach out, listen to and support one another, we build a stronger and kinder Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Mary Simon<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Stay connected:<br \/>Follow\u00a0GovernorGeneralCanada\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4600491-1&amp;h=1133439694&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGovernorGeneralCanada&amp;a=Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4600491-1&amp;h=86428393&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fgovernorgeneralcanada%2F&amp;a=Instagram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4600491-1&amp;h=3822932424&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FGGCanada&amp;a=X\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4600491-1&amp;h=848969812&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FCanadaGG&amp;a=YouTube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Cision\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/> Cision      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">View original content: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/January2026\/21\/c6187.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/January2026\/21\/c6187.html;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/January2026\/21\/c6187.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 21, 2026 \/CNW\/ &#8211; Today, on Bell Let&#8217;s Talk Day, I invite all Canadians to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260,42381],"class_list":["post-424280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-physical-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}