Health Canada

"We’re standing alone. I’m not afraid of that and I’m not anything but proud of the fact we’re willing to do that," Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister told reporters.

Environmental organizations are questioning the role of the pesticide industry in a House of Commons consultation on a proposed ban of a pesticide linked to the global decline of honeybees.

New research suggests that providing universal coverage for more than 100 prescription medications could save Canadians as much as $3 billion per year.

The study, to be released Monday by a University of Ottawa think tank, follows months of bitter federal-provincial talks over health funding.

"I can’t believe I had to bury my daughter," said Sandra, mother to 12-year-old Chantal Fox, who committed suicide earlier this month. "It was so hard to say goodbye."

"I feel it’s something we need to be doing something about faster than we are doing it," Hedy Fry, the longtime Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre, said in an interview.

Almost three-quarters of veterans using medical marijuana will feel the impact this spring when the federal government imposes a new limit on the amount of weed for which it will pay.

In extreme cases, the memo says, desperate parents are giving up their children to child welfare agencies as the only way to ensure their kids get treatment for mental illnesses.

A tearful Michelle Côté, whose father died as a result of asbestos exposure, thanked the federal government, unions, and health workers for their hard work in banning the toxic substance.

There is no standardized, countrywide protocol for how overdoses are categorized, nor is there a consistent timeline for reporting, say experts.

Anyone who showed up to watch a federal cabinet minister battle it out with her Quebec counterpart over health care funding negotiations would leave disappointed, warned Health Minister Jane Philpott.

Her husband, Bruce Wood, was recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. The two had married earlier this month.

One of the most commonly used pain relievers on the market is also the leading cause of all serious liver injury, according to Health Canada.

It’s a case of conflicting studies that could have serious consequences for the health of Canadians.

According to the court documents, dangerous pesticides have been unlawfully registered in Canada for more than a decade.