Legal cases condemning misuse of solitary confinement in Canada’s federal and provincial jails are propelling calls for external independent controls over the practice. “If the Canadian public fully appreciated what …

Van Mag Homeless   It was a bold effort, integrating police, psychiatrists, social workers, and life coaches to deliver permanent supportive housing — including “medical, psychosocial, and rehabilitation services” — to thousands …

In the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which encompasses most of Ontario’s northern land mass, with a total Aboriginal population of around 45 000 in 49 communities, more than 50% of the …

Few cases of prison brutality have attracted more attention than that of Ashley Smith, the 19-year-old who strangled herself in October 2007, while under observation by the Correctional Service of …

Twelve years after Nova Scotia integrated the health care offered in its provincial prisons into its public health system, the province’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Robert Strang, says the …

The incongruities and subtleties are sometimes startling, but then, they typically are when the worlds of religion and medicine intersect and there’s no reason to expect that Indonesia, the world’s …

“My fear is that the government is reverting back to generating Aboriginal health policies without input from Aboriginal researchers,” says Claudette Dumont Smith, executive director of the Native Women’s Association …

Indications of a staggering level of prescription drug abuse by Aboriginal youths have left experts urging a more coordinated approach to the problem: Responses to Health Canada’s national Youth Smoking Survey …

Canada has cut support for several national Aboriginal-led initiatives, leaving few Indigenous people in a position to steer health policy for their communities. Deep budget cuts to Aboriginal health groups …

Call it a quandary of epidemic proportions. Imagine a population group in which 30% of its members have a specific disease. It can be treated, but at a relatively stiff …