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A nurse practitioner whose research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is dedicated to helping children and teens manage pain has won a Gairdner Award.

Saskatoon’s only supervised consumption site is raising alarm bells about an increase in overdoses in 2025.

The government announced Thursday that drug injection sites in locations including Toronto, Ottawa and Thunder Bay will all be given funding to switch to rehabilitation facilities.

B.C. votes on Saturday after campaign that saw David Eby's New Democrats and John Rustad's BC Conservatives tangle over housing, health care and the overdose crisis.

Justin Surette was just 21 when he died from an accidental overdose. Now, his mother and brother have put his story into video, with the message that 'no family is immune.'

While families remember loved ones lost to toxic drug overdoses, they question whether the province's new health agency called Recovery Alberta will be the change that is needed.

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.

Fourteen recommendations were directed at RCMP during coroner's inquests meant to improve how the organization responded to the mass casualty event.

"There shouldn't be shame or stigma associated with an accidental drug poisoning. People don't intentionally try to take their own lives." 

“At a time when we're seeing record numbers of overdose deaths in Canada, this is a time we need to be expanding and scaling up our supervised consumption and harm reduction services."

Parents and staff knew a bus driver had mental health issues, but a senior administrator testified Tuesday there was nothing the school could have done to prevent a crash that killed a student in 2007.

Tents that had been erected in a London, Ont., park as part of the city's Occupy protest were removed by police and bylaw officers early Wednesday.

Tents that had been erected in a London, Ont., park as part of the city’s Occupy protest were removed by police and bylaw officers early Wednesday.

VANCOUVER - Glowsticks, fuzzy pants and DJ Johnny Fiasco were the recipe for a Calgary rave back in the late-'90s when it was Kevin's job to supply the key ingredient: white powder-packed capsules that stoked touchy-feely-dance vibes in partiers until dawn.

VANCOUVER - All 16 deaths from ecstasy overdoses in British Columbia last year will be examined by the coroner's office to determine whether some were caused by a relatively unknown chemical cut into the drug.

VANCOUVER - All 16 deaths from ecstasy overdoses in British Columbia last year will be examined by the coroner's office to determine whether some were caused by a relatively unknown chemical cut into the drug.

DUBLIN - An Irish Republican Army veteran who accused Sinn Fein party chief Gerry Adams of involvement in IRA killings and bombings has been found dead in her home, police and politicians said Thursday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The criticism of Dr. Drew Pinsky spread on the Internet almost as quickly as news of Mindy McCready's death.

Internal government documents show Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer warned the health minister the province's health care system would face extreme strain.

This is the province's first funding initiative for safe consumption sites — something that has previously fallen on non-profit organizations.