Background In 2018, in response to a lawsuit and years of civil society advocacy for prison-based syringe distribution due to elevated rates of injection drug use, HIV, and hepatitis C virus among inc...

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Geoff Dembicki from DeSmog is pulling back the curtain on the influence of corporate lobbyists on Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives

Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions points to the nation-wide shortages of health care providers as key issues requiring solutions

This randomized clinical trial compares usual care to an addiction-focused consultation service in hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder.

Canada’s oil and gas industry is, to a large extent, owned by American companies, including oil majors, asset managers, and other financial players.

After “five minutes of 'holy shit, we got an injunction,'” a Toronto advocate tells Filter, the reality of funding constraints set in.

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

The disclosure of the tab so far came after a visit by five senators to the offshore operation, who condemned it as a waste of resources.

As Ontario seeks to close half of its supervised drug-use sites, The Globe spoke with the clients and staff who may lose their places of support

New tremors rattled survivors of Friday’s earthquake, which killed more than 1,600 people, while the government continued its bombing campaign elsewhere in the country.

The Illinois State Training School for Girls in Geneva was the state’s first and only girls’ prison. Today, it remains a cautionary lesson.

Some therapists who lose their licenses transition to the unregulated life coaching industry, an investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica found. A new law makes it clear that only license...

Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.

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Time for a global boycott of the United States