Ann Silversides

In less than three months, 'free' over-the-air CBC TV will soon be history for everyone outside of 27 major Canadian centres -- unless communities act and organize quickly.

The conference brought together about 100 activists, academics and journalists to consider ways to revitalize active citizenship.

Shocking statistics about prescription drugs deaths in Ontario show the number of them equal that of traffic accidents. It's all about the money, says one local officer.

The Brockville inquest into two deaths by OxyContin overdose hears from experts caught up in the tragedy, showing how evermore powerful drugs and a fractured health-care system contributed.

An inquest into the deaths of two friends in Brockville places a magnifying glass on the downward spiral of those trapped by addiction to prescription drugs and neglected by authorities.

An inquest in Ontario is expected to shine a light on the high rates of prescription painkiller-related deaths in this country. To date, there is no national push to track the scope of the problem.

A look at why rates of hepatitis C are at least 20 times higher in prison than the general Canadian population, and why rates of HIV are 10 to 20 times higher.

Twenty years after its first official recognition, AIDS continues to kill off its victims - quietly and steadily. In North America, those victims, increasingly, are the poor and the marginalized. Des