As workers in pharmacies, grocery and retail stores face the added risk of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, some companies are stepping up protections by mandating the use of the best masks a...

Health Canada was left in the dark for years about thousands of suspected injuries and complications related to breast implants — including multiple mentions of a rare cancer — that manufacturers ...

Trial balloon or serious threat? Either way, Quebec Premier François Legault's pitch for a tax on the unvaccinated raises a host of unanswered legal and ethical questions.

Did you get vaccinated, then got infected with Omicron, then wondered about getting a booster, too? You might want to wait longer than you'd expect, based on the science behind how our immune system w...

The designer of the Vancouver Canucks’ special edition Lunar New Year jerseys says he hopes the bold redesign sends a message about inclusivity and anti-Asian racism.

For three months last year, medical and environmental experts met to try to solve the mystery of a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause” in New Brunswick. But provincial public health officials...

Hydroelectricity, wind, solar and nuclear power should be harnessed to achieve Canada’s climate change ambitions, according to a new report from a global energy agency.

Manitoba health officials say every person in the province will likely be exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19 sometime in the coming weeks, and the government will shift its focus away from tryi...

The University of British Columbia has added a very valuable book to its library — a rare first edition of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623 — and you can bet students won't be writing notes ...

Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton have the highest immigrant retention rates in the country, according to data published by Statistics Canada.

With the return to in-person learning less than a week away, Ontario’s vaccination rate for the five-to-11-year-old age group has stalled at 45 per cent. What’s behind the lag is still unclear. ...

A Regina mother says her ex-husband took her daughter to an undisclosed location two months ago because he doesn't want the girl to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Public health officials in Windsor-Essex have told businesses to pause bringing any temporary foreign workers to the Ontario region amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The Homie Project delivers meals and other donated supplies to homeless tenters in Fredericton about twice a week.

In a standoff that has lasted nearly a month, three Langford, B.C.-based cats have tried to claim ownership of a box containing a new blender — a saga that has fascinated social media users worldw...

More than 80 per cent of family physicians practising in Kingston, Ont., are not accepting new patients and the few who are, such as military doctors, are often inaccessible to the general public, CBC...

Public health experts are calling for Dr. Horacio Arruda's successor to have increased independence from the province's political decision makers.

With PCR restrictions in place many Albertans will have to rely on at-home rapid tests for proof of COVID-19 infection.

A 17-year-old goalie from Grimsby, Ont., has been charged with assault with a weapon after an opponent was hit on head with a hockey stick during a youth tournament last month, Niagara police say. ...

Canada is in crisis when it comes to COVID-19 PCR testing capacity, even as the federal government struggles to make good on its promise to deliver 140 million rapid tests to provinces by the end of t...