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Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 Nations declares state of emergency over opioid crisis

Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 Nations declares state of emergency over opioid crisis

EDMONTON — Treaty 6 First Nations in Western Canada have declared a state of emergency over rising opioid deaths. The Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 Nations is calling on all levels of government for immediate support and funding to address the crisis.
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Premiers meeting in Winnipeg starts with discussion with Indigenous leaders

Premiers meeting in Winnipeg starts with discussion with Indigenous leaders

WINNIPEG — Canada's premiers kicked off their annual three-day conference Monday by meeting with Indigenous leaders on issues including housing, child welfare and reconciliation.
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Surge of weekend drug overdoses in Ottawa part of ongoing national crisis

Surge of weekend drug overdoses in Ottawa part of ongoing national crisis

Ottawa police confirmed Monday that nearly two dozen people suffered drug overdoses over the weekend in the country's capital city.
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Kansas must stop changing trans people's sex listing on driver's licenses, judge says

Kansas must stop changing trans people's sex listing on driver's licenses, judge says

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas must stop allowing transgender people to change the sex listed on their driver’s licenses, a state-court judge ordered Monday as part of a lawsuit filed by the state’s Republican attorney general.
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Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

CHICAGO (AP) — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her mother set off on an expedition to Chicago from their home in Indianapolis.
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Indigenous men diagnosed with more advanced prostate cancer, Canadian study says

Indigenous men diagnosed with more advanced prostate cancer, Canadian study says

Indigenous men have more serious and later-stage prostate cancer when they're diagnosed than non-Indigenous men, a new Canadian study says.
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Syria revokes BBC accreditation over alleged bias after report on high-level ties to drug trade

Syria revokes BBC accreditation over alleged bias after report on high-level ties to drug trade

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Information Ministry revoked the BBC's media accreditation, days after the British public broadcaster aired a report linking members of Syrian President Bashar Assad's family and senior army officials to the production and smugg
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Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

CHICAGO (AP) — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her mother set off on an expedition to Chicago from their home in Indianapolis.
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Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground

Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Prandy Tavarez and his wife were expecting a baby when they bought a four-bedroom house in a well-kept neighborhood of century-old homes here.
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Here’s why there is still so much lead pipe in Chicago

Here’s why there is still so much lead pipe in Chicago

Even though lead in drinking water damages children's development, the Environmental Protection Agency has forced very few cities to replace their lead pipes. Consider Chicago, with more water pipes made out of lead than any U.S. city, some 400,000.
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