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The data for 2024 released Wednesday by the Public Health Agency of Canada showed 7,146 deaths were recorded last year, 80 per cent of which were in just three provinces.

An inquest has wrapped up into the overdose death of Lee Earnshaw in 2021 in Winnipeg. His family members hope to prevent similar deaths.

The government has said the site will not provide any drug supply but will have consumption areas, staff trained to respond to overdoses, and support for people seeking treatment. 

A year and a half after losing his son to a fentanyl overdose, grieving father is working to keep his memory alive and prevent the same thing from happening to others.

Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith said the province is seeing too many deaths from drug poisoning — 171 between January and April of this year alone.

This year is on pace to be another devastating one for drug-related deaths, according to Manitoba's Chief Medical Examiner's Office.

Mounties say the illicit pills with a greenish tinge resembling oxycodone tablets, locally known as "green beans," could be making their rounds in Oxford House and Shamattawa.

Communities such as Yorkton, Sask., have voiced concerns regarding the rising numbers of drug overdoses being reported out of smaller centres and rural areas of the province.

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The photo is part of a national campaign aimed at signalling support for harm-reduction measures to prevent overdose deaths. 

One-third of the 172 confirmed fatal drug overdoses in Saskatchewan last year were outside of the province's two major urban centres.

At a town hall event Wednesday, Dr. Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix answered your questions about B.C.'s response to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The transgender community's campaign for human rights protection under the law may represent the final frontier in the fight against sex-based discrimination.

After an increasing number of young people attempted to take their lives in a northern Ontario First Nation, the chief and council have declared a state of emergency.

A support group for parents affected by drug addiction has spread to Manitoba from the United States.

Lee Earnshaw, a father of four and commercial fisherman, passed away at the age of 42 after being turned away from treatment centres several times.

Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent.

A 33-year-old Winnipeg man has been arrested on drug related charges after two men overdosed on a deadly opioid last month.

A recovering fentanyl addict was able to buy the deadly drug online and have it delivered to him through the mail in Manitoba.

A New Brunswick man's heart attack, linked to a THC-laced lollipop, points to the dangers of powerful grey-market edibles.