A new animated video series out of norther Ontario aims to help inform Indigenous communities about the importance of cancer screening.The videos, titled Conversations about Cancer, feature Sudbury-based family physician Dr. Erin Peltier, and are produced by Health Sciences North (HSN) and...

When Felicia Fahey heads to the ballot box June 2, her cousin, Steven Legault, will be top of mind. In September 2020, Legault died of an accidental overdose."It just rocked our entire family. He was just like a brother to me. …...

A Sudbury, Ont., harm reduction advocate has started collecting street drug samples so they can be tested at a Vancouver lab to help protect drug users from overdoses, and she's already learning some aren't as advertised. Marie Pollock is co-founder of the...

Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) has temporarily suspended the licence of Dr. Patrick Phillips, a physician whose social media comments promoting misinformation during the pandemic landed him before a disciplinary committee.  Phillips, who worked as an emergency room physician...

Megan Pilatzke ended up on a journey of self-discovery almost by accident.In 2019, Pilatzke began researching autism after learning the man she was dating (now her fiancé) has a nephew diagnosed with autism.  "What I knew about autism was that it existed,...

Friends, family and advocates for the 25,000 miners who were forced to inhale McIntyre Powder walked away from the Legislative Assembly on Thursday without the Ontario apology they were expecting.Northern miners were required to breathe in the ground aluminum dust, known...