At the same time as the government is pumping new cash into rehab, it is slashing funding from another pillar of drug recovery: harm reduction.

I hope we can all be awakened to the need for peace by thoughts of civilians in Lebanon — like the Hemo children who ask only how they can find a safe place to live another day.

A year and a half after devastating earthquakes in February 2023, the ruined towns and cities of Hatay, Turkey’s southernmost province, sit frozen in time in the chaotic aftermath. 

As Canada grapples with a severe national drug crisis, experts say the country’s prisons are overwhelmed.

We made a promise to the Afghan people of our dedication to equality and justice; so why has Canada simply watched as gains in women’s rights have unravelled

Samia's Canadian children are in danger of dying or becoming victims of violence, but she faces an impossible choice

On the streets of Victoria, addicts and those who care about them have mixed feelings about the return of criminalization, and they have a warning for Toronto.

Eswatini has the most serious HIV/AIDS problem in the world, and has put serious effort into reducing it. But longstanding beliefs and sexual behaviours, including those of the king himself, stand in the way of progress.

In shantytowns in and around Soweto, democracy has failed to materially transform residents’ lives, 30 years after Nelson Mandela’s triumph.

How women are redefining pilgrimages in the Ukrainian heartland of Jewish history

Desperate to give daughters a safe life, some refugees marry them off early. One organization in Lebanon is showing girls that there is an alternative.

With many buildings condemned or collapsed, residents squat in dangerous structures near grand hotels that host a shrinking number of tourists.

A teacher, a writer and an historian present a small but determined community of resistance toward Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s culture war against “woke” ideology.

A project racing against time to preserve memories shows potential for artificial intelligence in preserving history.

“Just because you don’t talk about it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist." Canadian black female professionals feel less supported than their US counterparts.

“I thought I could come to Canada and live for myself,” says a survivor of the Mariupol destruction. “But the war has changed me.”

The overwhelming rejection in a referendum on giving Indigenous groups a constitutional voice has many looking for ways to keep up the fight for recognition and reconcilation

Seven Israeli and Canadian Holocaust survivors interviewed said Oct. 7 has made them relive their horror and affected their idea of Israel as a safe haven.

A United Nations commission has found that war crimes against civilians by Russian forces and federal police were widespread and included deliberate killings, rape, torture and the kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian territory.

Mexican border city sees thousands of migrants waiting for appointment to make a claim for asylum. But even shelters may not be safe.