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Since September 2023, Paul Ziman hasn't visited his mother at the long-term care home where she lives due to an order under Ontario's trespassing act. He believes it was the result of him speaking out about her care, something the Windsor facility .. ...

Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says the province will stop incarcerating people who have tuberculosis following a CBC investigation that revealed a Manitoba woman spent a month in jail after she was detained to treat the infectious disease.

At the height of her daughter's addiction, Julie Nystrom says she started envisioning what life would be like without her child. Before long, she hired a private investigator to track down her dealer.

A Manitoba woman with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn't infectious at the time.

Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health says that as misinformation has fuelled doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, the benefits of vaccination are being forgotten.

Over the past three years, at least 38 hospitals with emergency rooms or urgent care centres in Ontario have experienced closures -- about one in five of the province's 176 publicly funded facilities. Most are in rural areas.

An Ontario coroner's investigation has identified 220 additional deaths linked to Indian residential schools in the province -- deaths that were previously unknown to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which has documented 436 deaths . ...

Ethics experts say Canadians should think twice about becoming research participants, because the federal body that holds universities accountable to ethical standards has no jurisdiction over privately funded studies.

Being exposed to wildfire smoke over a long period of time could increase the risk of developing dementia even more than exposure to other sources of air pollution, according to new research -- a pressing concern as Canada's wildfire season is only . ...

On World AIDS Day, advocates are calling on the province make drugs that can prevent the transmission of HIV free for all Ontarians as recent data shows an uptick in cases in Canada.