Canada’s Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia’s minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province’s decision to dial back its drug decriminalization …
The mean girls of your average Hollywood teen movie wouldn’t last a morning in the ruthless adolescent playground of “Toxic,” where economic exploitation and unforgiving body image standards rule the …
Organized crime groups have shifted their efforts away from importing the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl and are now producing it primarily on Canadian soil. A briefing note prepared for the deputy …
Spark53:59Being Human Now 9 – Wellness It’s “scroller beware” on #mentalhealth TikTok, where content ranges from informed to misleading, and has the potential to be both helpful or harmful, mental …
Anastassia Waddell won’t ever know exactly what caused her husband’s death. Her requests for an autopsy were denied by the B.C. Coroners Service. Drew Madsen, her husband and partner of …
Windsor A plastics plant in southwestern Ontario that was ordered by the province and federal government to reduce emissions of the cancer-causing chemical benzene now says it will permanently shut down. INEOS …
The province is bringing in a new scientific adviser to look into mental health and addiction treatment in B.C. and offer recommendations for government to improve care. On Wednesday, Premier David Eby …
First Nations people in Alberta have been dying from opioids at more than eight times the rate of the rest of the population, according to newly published data that puts harder …
The British Columbia government is asking universities to implement more drug safety measures after a coroner’s inquest was called into the overdose death of an 18-year-old University of Victoria (UVic) student, …
More Albertans died from opioid overdoses last year than any other year on record. CBC News reported earlier this year that 2023 was expected to be the deadliest year from drug …