The Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services harm reduction van will be at the Jack Axes parking lot every Thursday afternoon led by a team of nurses with safe drug use …
Toronto’s top doctor is calling the opioid overdose crisis a drug toxicity epidemic and is pushing for an empathetic health response as officials release preliminary annual data on the city’s …
Opioid-related deaths doubled in Canada between 2019 and the end of 2021, with Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta experiencing a dramatic jump, mostly among men in their 20s and 30s, says …
The City of North Bay, Ont. and the Department of National Defence (DND) are set to begin a $20-million project this spring to remediate a site contaminated with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — …
It’s become a recurring joke in recent Nikki Haley campaign speeches where she dismisses various theories about why she’s still in the U.S. presidential race. Questions about her continued participation …
The province says it’s considering a community proposal for an Indigenous-led supervised consumption site in downtown Winnipeg. The coalition behind the idea, led by Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, includes …
A month-old baby girl who died of drug poisoning in 2019 was an innocent victim of the methamphetamine epidemic overtaking communities in Alberta, a fatality inquiry has found. In her …
Statistics Canada says life expectancy for the average Canadian at birth has fallen for three straight years, from 82.3 years in 2019 to 81.3 in 2022. The report on deaths …
Authorities were hunting Thursday for whoever sent suspicious letters — including some containing fentanyl — to elections offices in at least five states this week, delaying the counting of ballots in …