The number of Canadians authorized to use medical marijuana has skyrocketed, even as medical experts warn that not enough is known about its risks and benefits.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been critiqued as merely serving U.S. and Canadian interests, while making the rich richer and only providing marginal, geographically isolated benefits to the poor in Mexico.
Canada is now home to its first publicly traded recreational marijuana company, despite the fact that pot for non-medical use is illegal in this country.
Today, the House of Commons passed Bill C-2, the Respect for Communities Act. Pretty title, but like so much Conservative legislation, the meaning of the title, like the bill, is cruelly ironic.
An Ontario university student may have just established a precedent that could pave the way for coverage of medical marijuana by private insurance plans in Canada.