Suicide-survivor shares message of hope and kindness to Prince George students

Nov 19, 2019 | 1:39 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — Tad Milmine, a Calgary-based police officer, is presenting his ‘Bullying Ends Here’ tour to youth and adults across the country.

The past two days, he’s spent time in Prince George presenting to students at both Duchess Park and College Heights Secondary School.

As a child growing up in Cambridge, ON, he was forced to live in a cold, bleak basement. Depressed, bullied, suicidal — he was worried that people would find out he was gay.

At the age of 25, he decided to tell his mom about his sexuality. With nerves rushing his body, he called his mom to inform her. “I know,” was her point-blank response. Floored with her response, he asked her to be angry simply for the fact that he had always envisioned that she would be.

Persevering through all that life had thrown his way over the years, Milmine achieved his dreams of becoming a police officer and is now spreading a message of hope.

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With the epidemic of mental health in Northern B.C., College Heights Secondary School teacher Susan Trabant says his visit is perfectly timed.

“It’s extremely important to be speaking outright about bullying and mental health in schools. In the north, we are in a mental health crisis,” Trabant told CKPG. “Tad coming up to Prince George at this time is the right time to be here. We need to be talking about the issues that students are facing in our schools and we need to be talking about the mental health issues they’re facing in their lives.”

‘Bullying Ends Here’ was created by Milmine in 2012, the year following the suicide death of Jamie Hubley who was relentlessly bullied for figure skating and being gay.

by Ethan Ready

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