On a sweltering July afternoon over 50 people reunited under the shade of the maple trees on the grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, where they've gathered yearly over the past 18 years, to create awareness about mental health issues.  

They hung around, chatted and waited for the speeches to begin before the start of  the fifth annual Bed Push, symbolic of going to a safe place where there is no forced treatment, and then paraded west across Queen Street to the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre.