Nick Purdon

From patients desperate to find a family physician, to doctors trying to manage the crushing pressures of their practices, communities are struggling to provide health care.

Ukrainians have been filling hundreds of long-empty jobs in Winnipeg and helping businesses thrive.

Alberta’s Dean Edge to compete with the best auctioneers in the world this week in Shipshewana, Ind.

Emergency doctors in Timmins, Ont., have adopted a new approach to helping people deal with addiction in a community where the opioid overdose death rate is among the worst in the country.

After turning his life around thanks to the support of a concerned cook, chef helps others do the same through the Food Services Training Program at the Ottawa Mission kitchen that bears his name.

Michael Yellowlees and his dog Luna are walking about 50km a day, crossing Canada on foot to raise awareness about climate change and money to plant trees.

“I don’t have to go beg,” said senior who uses local community refrigerators because she has difficulty affording food.