University graduate Sarah Rotz is battling a cold and sipping hot coffee as she and her fellow Occupy Toronto members prepare to continue their campout at downtown St. James Park through the coming months. In Calgary on Thursday, videographer and Occupy organizer Chelsea Pratchett said there are no plans to dismantle two camps —at Olympic [...]

Quebec is facing the biggest measles outbreak in almost a decade, according to the province’s public health department. There are now more than 750 reported cases, most of them in the Mauricie region and central Quebec. “It’s the biggest outbreak in North America and South America since 2002,” said Dr. Horacio Arruda of Quebec’s public [...]

Someone used a Montreal family’s home computer to search the internet for information about murder days before three sisters and their father’s first wife were found dead in a car submerged in a canal near Kingston, Ont. Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, her husband, Mohammad Shafia, 58, and their son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia, 20, have each [...]

A coalition of prominent B.C. police officers, health professionals, legal experts and academics is calling for the legalization and regulated sale of marijuana. The group Stop the Violence, which includes former B.C. Supreme Court justice Ross Lander and B.C.’s former chief coroner Vince Cain, has launched a high-profile political campaign to “end the cannabis cash [...]

Six months after Vancouver City Council approved a plan to transform the Cambie Street corridor, homes in the area have nearly tripled in value and some residents fear development will ruin the neighbourhood. Last May the council passed a plan to bring 15,000 more people into the Cambie Street corridor through mid-rise development. Then last [...]