New Brunswick has the highest rate of sleeping pill use among seniors in Canada, with one in four taking them regularly. The medication can lead to dependence and side-effects like memory loss and uns...

The innovation sparked by the COVID-19 virus will better prepare the world for the next pandemic and could help eradicate global diseases in lower-income countries, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to...

'They're so close to the virus, they're so close to be at risk,' said Paramount Fine Foods CEO Mohamad Fakih.

The debate about whether Canadian athletes should boycott the winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in China in 2022, ultimately rests on a series of questions about the efficacy of such action, t...

Billions of people worldwide will receive vaccines to protect against COVID-19 and some will temporarily feel a sore arm, fever or muscle aches. But reaching for some common painkillers could blunt th...

In his first public appearance since he was wrongfully arrested by Montreal police last month, Mamadi Ill Fara Camara said he was unable to speak to his family at all during the six days he spent in d...

The Ontario government announced on Sunday that adults aged 80 and over are among the priority groups next in line to get the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the first phase of its rollout plan once suppl...

Widespread testing for all residents at a condominium in Mississauga, Ont., will start on Monday after five cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa were identified at the loca...

Second World War veteran Reg Harrison says his love story was "meant to be." He survived four plane crashes and returned home to meet the fiancée of his best friend, who had died in the war. ...

While cost can be a barrier, interest is growing in net-zero homes that both produce energy and use it wisely.

Police are investigating after the operator of a Courtice, Ont., private retirement home removed door handles from a "small number" of suites of residents who had reportedly tested positive for COVID-...

Since the Black Lives Matter demonstrations last year and amid the ongoing pandemic, some parents and educators have a renewed fervour in working to combat anti-Black racism in the Canadian education...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake hit Banff, Alta., on Saturday evening, according to the Geological Survey of Canada. "There's probably not any [damage] to be expected, but it was very close to Banff so we...

Seven probable cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K. have been discovered in Pauingassi First Nation in eastern Manitoba, according to a news release from the Assembly of Manitob...

A 45-year-old man was killed in an avalanche near Whistler on Saturday, the second avalanche fatality in the area two days.

The latest numbers give a glimpse at November, where a total of 113 people died, 106 of them from opioids. In the newest November opioid numbers, Edmonton and Calgary continue to be the hardest-hit co...

Newfoundland and Labrador reported 26 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with a single new recovery, meaning there are 285 active cases province wide. 

Canadian privacy commissioners have called for stronger federal and provincial privacy laws after they found American technology firm Clearview AI violated privacy laws by collecting photos of Canad...

Air travellers landing in Canada will have to quarantine in a hotel, at their own expense, starting Feb. 22, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The federal government is diverting portions of vaccine shipments from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to help supply Canada's North, provincial health officials said Friday.