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Reports of Intimate partner violence have skyrocketed since the pandemic, says the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada. Amid calls for more family and community-based interventions to prevent abuse and help families heal, this woman shares what it was like as a child in southwestern Ontario to witness abuse of her mom by her then partner.

A Naskapi community in Quebec advocated for the return of Gilles-Francis Pone Shecanapish after he was transferred for psychiatric evaluation 500 kilometres away following an incident in town.

A registered nurse who was the last witness in the weeks-long inquest for six Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre inmates testified she'd like to reassure her patients they'll undoubtedly be connected to community resources when they're let out, but that doesn't always happen.

Cleroux is currently serving a seven-year jail sentence in Ontario for posing as a nurse at two Ottawa clinics.

Tel-Jeunes, which has served the province since 1991, says 40 per cent of all its calls are related to mental health issues, and there has also been a spike in the number of youth contemplating suicide.

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) will not have access to the medical records of Indigenous patients it says were harmed by provincial health providers’ liver transplant policies, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.

Barb Bobychuk says when paramedics assessed her 89-year-old mother-in-law for a fall but did not take her to the hospital, she shouldn’t have been charged a fee.

Over their lifetime, people with cancer and their caregivers face nearly $33,000 in costs like medications, transportation to hospital and accommodation as well as lost income, the Canadian Cancer Society reports.

To get out of Donald Trump's tariff threat, Ottawa is downplaying its role in the fentanyl trade, while promising more monitoring at the border. But U.S. officials who've worked on this issue, including one for Trump, say it needs structural reforms to tackle international criminal networks.

Montreal Public Health says hundreds of people may have been exposed to measles between Nov. 23 and Nov. 26. during and after a recent NATO conference held in the city. According to the health agency, places of exposure to measles include the Palais des congrès and Trudeau International Airport.

Ian Stedman champions using artificial intelligence to diagnose more people with rare diseases after it took him 32 years and extraordinary effort to pinpoint his own rare disease. Now eastern Ontario's children's hospital is doing just that.

Despite the warnings of experts, there are growing conversations around the supposed benefits of raw milk. Microbiologists say the evidence clearly shows drinking unpasteurized milk is far riskier and may lead to harmful outcomes.

A Nova Scotia collaborative care clinic is shrinking patient wait times, and serving as a possible model to solve Atlantic Canada’s health-care crisis, by housing doctors and nurses, mental health clinicians, blood services, and a host of other specialists all under one roof.

Laura O'Byrne has countless fibroids — growths around her uterus, which itself is three times larger than normal — and a large ovarian cyst. But she's met a number of roadblocks in treating her issues, including being dismissed by a Nova Scotia gynecologist and denied an out-of-province claim to MSI for an urgent hysterectomy in her home province of Manitoba.

Amid a 35 per cent jump in HIV cases across Canada, the numbers have stabilized in northwestern Ontario — and health-care workers say it's largely due to harm reduction services in the region. Here's what local health-care workers say is working in helping prevent the spread of blood-borne infections.

Sixty-three per cent of women with disabilities who experienced homelessness said it was because of violence, compared with 54 per cent of women without disabilities, said a joint statement from The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the federal housing advocate.

Congo's health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over a flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.

A Vancouver Island "childbirth activist" prohibited from offering her services as a midwife is facing a lawsuit from the parents of a child who was allegedly injured during a botched home birth.

Niagara Health and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have yet to reach a pay equity agreement as required under Ontario law. For retired registered practical nurse Sandra Commerford, it's meant waiting for compensation since she first asked for a raise in 1998.

Lack of access to family doctors and other primary care providers leaves many Canadians with no option than to go to the emergency department for care, new data suggests.