Thursday, January 22, 2026
VOLUME 8 I ISSUE 31
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Lloydminster Ignites for mental health event
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Jordin Tootoo (left) and Jessica Janzen (right) speak to an excited crowd during the Ignite event at the Gold Horse Casino in Lloydminster on Saturday, Jan. 17. Christian Apostolovski Meridian Source photos CHRISTIAN APOSTOLOVSKI STAFF WRITER
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It was an evening that ignited Lloydminster. A pair of standing ovations, one for each speaker, summed up the crowd’s feelings of the Ignite event. Hosted by the Lloydminster Region Health Foundation (LRHF) on Jan. 17, it served as a chance for the community to talk about mental health. “It’s more of a community building event. We really want to help get more information
out for mental health and awareness,” said Kagan Kneen, LRHF CEO. Kneen says talking about mental health and hosting events like Ignite is more important than ever. “Super important, right now it’s such a crisis globally in regards to the needs for mental health,” he said. “People would take care of their physical health but their mental health was put to the back burner. Now there’s more voices, there’s more advocates, there’s more people talking CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 about it.”
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