Residents of Canada’s Aamjiwnaang reserve have long blamed their health problems on the petrochemical plants that crowd the landscape. But scant evidence supported their claims — until now.

General Motors president Rick Wagoner caused controversy when he blamed the US health-care system for his company’s near-bankrupt status. But health care and the US and Canadian automotive industry’s economic …

Six decades and tens of billions of dollars later, it’s make or break time for the Canadian nuclear program.

  How long should wait times be for most medical procedures? The answers are surprisingly elusive. In this election campaign, wait times for surgery and other medical treatments are once …

Despite the growing attention being paid to the cause of international debt relief, led by celebrities such as Bono, little has actually been done to ease the financial burden on …

Two studies from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) linking hospitals that perform larger volumes of surgery to better patient outcomes are prompting another round of soul-searching over the …

High levels of toxic contaminants have been recorded in several Arctic regions. But the full health effects of exposure to these chemicals are only just emerging. Meet the scientists studying …

The first comprehensive look at persistent toxic substances (PTS) across the Russian Arctic reinforces what studies in other Arctic nations have revealed: that indigenous peoples in this northern swath of …

Kamchatka, Russia’s Pacific flank, is home to much of the world’s last preserves of wild salmon species. But scientists fear the highly lucrative global market for wild salmon roe, driven …