Health Canada

Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says her new department will likely include the delivery of health services for First Nations and Inuit, an area previously under her watch at Health Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has split up Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada into two separate ministries, acknowledging the original department's "colonial" structure.

Former Conservative MP Terence Young is calling for Health Minister Jane Philpott to intervene in her department's handling of a law that bears his daughter's name.

An official with a large Canadian producer of medical cannabis is confident consumers will be adequately supplied come next July, but says production will need to be increased.

Some species of North American hummingbirds are in severe decline and a British Columbia research scientist says one possible cause might be the same insecticide affecting honey bees.

The federal government plans to spend $8 million over five years to establish a mentorship network for First Nations, Métis and Inuit health researchers.

Social media plays a central role in a five−year plan aimed at reducing the number of suicides in Nunavut.

The death last week of Jenara Roundsky, the third pre-teen member of the Wapekeka First Nation to die by suicide this year, prompted an anguished cry for outside help.

NDP leadership candidate Charlie Angus is promising to find better ways to protect the interests of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children, including by dismantling the Indigenous Affairs Department.

Fewer than 20 per cent of employees at Health Canada received mandatory training on ethics, values and conflict of interest between April 2013 and October 2016, the Auditor General found.

With its long ribbon of sandy shores, New Brunswick's Parlee Beach is one of the top tourist draws in Atlantic Canada, boasting the warmest salt water in Canada.

Environmental groups say the Commons agriculture committee looking into a ban on imidacloprid is parroting industry lines while ignoring concerns about the pesticides.

New Brunswick has become the first province to announce it will offer the abortion pill Mifegymiso to women free of charge, a major shift for a province with a history of restricting abortion access.

Health Canada has issued a warning about a skin cream for babies and children that it says could pose "serious health risks."

Is the phasing-put of the largest selling "bee-killing" insecticide in Canada actually a victory for science and the environment, or a well-worn strategy to swell corporate coffers?