Data from the Ontario coroner's office and other sources indicates opioid-related deaths in the province's shelters jumped during the COVID-19...

Majority of overdose deaths within shelters occurring when nobody is present to intervene

Researchers from the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN) at St. Michael's Hospital and Public Health Ontario analyzed health data from the...

The hot and humid weather has arrived in Toronto, smothering the city with high temperatures this week. These heatwaves always beg the question of...

While there were plenty of smiles and laughing inside the Rotary Centre for Youth in Bracebridge, Eva Zachary, executive director of Muskoka Victim...

The US opioid epidemic has caused more than 500,000 overdose deaths in the United States over two decades.

“Excess deaths are nearly as high as they were during the Covid pandemic. Young people are over-represented.”

International container shipping rates have increased by more than 70 per cent over the same period last year and by more than 110 per cent compared...

Rielly McLaren says the grief caused by toxic drug deaths feels staggering and palpable in his community. McLaren, who pastors Windsor Mennonite...

MONDAY, June 24, 2024 -- Following state legislation passed in 2021 that essentially banned abortion in Texas, the rate of infant deaths rose by...