The first national conversation about alcohol and health in Canada took place in 2023 after the release of Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health, which has helped change public perception.

The Public Health Agency of Canada accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people’s movement during lockdown, the agency revealed this week.

The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada, the department in charge of the country’s pandemic preparedness and response strategy, has resigned. Tina Namiesniowski, who was appointed to ...

Canada announced Wednesday it will require health warnings to be printed directly on every individual cigarette – the first country in the world to do so.

Canada’s top doctor is urging the federal government to strengthen the country’s public health system to keep up with evolving threats, including the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Canada and other countries have relied on work done in the U.S. to track infectious diseases, address pandemic threats and ...

An aggressive public health response and immediate buy-in from men who have sex with men — the group most affected by the outbreak — has helped contain mpox in Canada, public health doctors say.

Canada must address the growing crisis of communicable diseases that has occurred in tandem with a rise in misinformation ...

Canada’s public-health system is producing innovations. So why are we letting them die? Andrew Boozary Special to The Globe and Mail Published January 26, 2024 ...

Experts say making marijuana legal will help yield much needed insight into the drug's health effects — both positive and negative.

Canada’s public health agency has failed to develop a national strategy to combat the threat of antimicrobial drug resistance – a problem that increasingly means patients cannot be treated for ...