Canada's transition to a knowledge economy could suffer if business doesn't take mental health serio

One of the first things advertising executive Natacha Brind’Amour does each week is check on the mental wellbeing of the company’s 130 employees. Brind’Amour, vice-president of people and culture at Montreal-based Sharethrough Inc., opens Officevibe, a computer program she uses to send out an anonymous, five-question survey every Monday morning that tracks the staff’s mood. The survey predates the onslaught of COVID-19,...