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The Government of Canada is providing more than $2 million to support three Manitoba organizations in addressing substance use and the overdose crisis.

The parents of a woman who lived in Dartmouth, N.S., say their daughter died after being turned away from a mental-health clinic, and they want to know why it was so hard for her to get help.

While Ottawa has boosted its spending on mental health services, Canada risks falling behind on the file unless the federal government opts for a better approach, mental health advocates say.

Workers on the front lines of the opioid crisis in Thunder Bay, Ont., are responding to more overdoses than ever before, linked to increasingly toxic and unpredictable street drugs. Here's what health-care workers at the only safe consumption site in northwestern Ontario want people to know.

A new pilot program now allows Nova Scotians struggling with general mental health issues to book a one-time free counselling session.

Sanguen Outreach operates a community health van which serves people in Waterloo region, Guelph and Wellington County. It stops at shelters or encampments to give people access to various health-care services. But a federal grant is expected to end next month, leaving the van in financial limbo.

We are writing as both present and past Chair, Section of Psychiatry at NOSMU (Northern Ontario School of Medicine University) regarding the planned…

Some health-care services at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s Chatham and Wallaceburg sites will be tweaked during the holiday season.

World Spine Care Canada announce a new project to reduce barriers to conservative spine care and minimize opioid exposure in Indigenous communities.

The City of Kelowna has received $662,433 in funding from the Government of Canada through Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP).