https://mhinbrief.com/topics/ Recent content in Topics on MH in Brief Hugo -- gohugo.io en-ca MH in Brief Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/licensure/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/licensure/ The same title does not mean the same thing in two provinces, and this is the topic where that bites hardest. A clinician who moves — or who sees a client across a provincial line — can find that the credential they hold maps onto a different class, a different title, or no eligibility at all. Three things vary independently, and reading only one of them will mislead you. The degree that opens the door is not the same everywhere. https://mhinbrief.com/topics/insurance/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/insurance/ Two separate questions live here, and the second is the one that catches people. First: does your regulator require professional liability insurance at all, and at what limits? That answer is not uniform, even between colleges in the same province. Second, and less documented anywhere: where does your coverage actually apply? Regulator by-laws are frequently silent on territory, while the insurance programs practitioners actually buy differ sharply — some follow you worldwide, some stop at the Canadian border, and some address travelling with your existing clients without ever addressing clients based elsewhere. https://mhinbrief.com/topics/privacy/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/privacy/ Two questions decide a practitioner’s privacy obligations, and neither is usually the one people ask. First: which statute actually governs you — which turns on how the legislation captures your profession, and that route is not the same for every discipline even inside one province. Second: what happens when client information leaves the province, whether through a hosted platform, a backup, or a colleague across a border. The matrix below records both, per jurisdiction, with the operative provision quoted verbatim. https://mhinbrief.com/topics/retention/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/retention/ Retention rules look identical across regulators until you read them closely. The period is the easy part; what differs — and what decides whether a file can be destroyed — is when the clock starts, and each college words that trigger differently. A rule that runs from the last entry in a file behaves differently from one that runs from the last time you saw the client. The matrix below gives each regulator’s period, its minor-client rule, and its own words for when the clock begins, with the verbatim standard and the date we last checked it. https://mhinbrief.com/topics/telepractice/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/telepractice/ The general principle is easy to state and easy to get wrong: it is usually the client’s location that governs, not the practitioner’s. The hard part is that regulators do not agree on what follows from it. Two colleges in the same province can take materially different positions on whether an out-of-province practitioner needs to register before seeing a client here. The matrix below records each regulator’s actual position, quoted verbatim, along with whether it sits in an enforceable standard or in guidance — a distinction worth keeping, because “the college’s website says” and “the college’s standard requires” are not the same obligation. https://mhinbrief.com/topics/tax/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhinbrief.com/topics/tax/ GST/HST exemption for behavioural-health services doesn’t run through a single blanket rule — it runs through several separate provisions, each keyed to a different profession, each carrying its own conditions. The matrix below is every route this registry has traced and verified so far, one row per profession, each with its citation, its verbatim statutory text, and the date we last checked it against the primary source. This page is built to hold more than the federal government.