{"id":486,"date":"2021-03-09T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?p=486"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:14","slug":"dr-benoit-antoine-bacon-announced-as-the-cpa-honorary-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/2021\/dr-benoit-antoine-bacon-announced-as-the-cpa-honorary-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon Announced as the CPA Honorary President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon Announced as the CPA Honorary President\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Benoit_linkedin_9404.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon Announced as the CPA Honorary President<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CPA is excited to announce the selection of the 2020-2021 Honorary President. Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, President &amp; Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University, has graciously accepted the invitation from CPA President Dr. Kim Corace. Says Dr. Corace,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. Bacon has demonstrated tremendous leadership in promoting mental health and substance use awareness through the University, in the community and nationally. His tireless commitment to addressing and de-stigmatizing mental health and substance use has helped drive mental health&nbsp; transformation at Carleton University and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection of Dr. Bacon as Honorary President is the most recent in a venerable list that includes Dr. Suzanne Stewart, Dr. Donna Markham, The Honourable Irwin Cotler, Ms. Mary Walsh, and more. We look forward to hearing Dr. Bacon\u2019s address at the CPA\u2019s 2021 Virtual Annual Convention, taking place June 7 \u2013 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon Announced as the CPA Honorary President The CPA is excited to announce the selection of the 2020-2021 Honorary President. Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, President &amp; Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University, has graciously accepted the invitation from CPA President Dr. Kim Corace. Says Dr. Corace, \u201cDr. Bacon has demonstrated tremendous leadership in promoting mental health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}