Researchers tracking mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Colombia have found that people in Antioquia have the world’s highest per head mercury pollution.

“Ottawa’s new approach is to criminalize what should still be seen as a health issue,” says Cathy McIsaac, executive director of Direction 180, a methadone clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. …

When it comes to helping farmers in impoverished nations, does Canada’s left hand know what its right hand is doing?

One of two documentary films about the ring of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean, from ProspectTV. Situé à proximité de Mexico, le Popocatepetl est le deuxième volcan d’Amérique du Nord …

The government of Nunavut is “covering up” information indicating that a wave of flu-like illness that is sweeping Nunavut’s communities in recent weeks is actually an epidemic of respiratory syncytial …

Federal refusal to include Aboriginal groups in the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network — the country’s main national public health advisory body — helped exacerbate pandemic (H1N1) 2009, health experts familiar …

As officials scramble to explain why Canadian Aboriginal people are especially vulnerable to pandemic (H1N1) 2009, health scientists in Manitoba and British Columbia have compiled striking evidence that First Nations …

Longstanding federal strategies and polices have exacerbated the rapid spread of Novel A(H1N1) influenza in remote First Nations communities, public health officials and aboriginal health experts charge. The federal government …

Is smart regulation a smokescreen for government retreat in the face of massive resource developments in the Canadian Arctic?