If Canadians need something to feel proud about this winter, it's the sight of a giant spliff being handed from person to person along a 45,000- kilometre route encompassing 1,000 communities.
Medical marijuana may be legal, but the way some approved Canadian growers are producing their pot is not, say fire chiefs in the country's two most prolific weed-producing provinces.
Vancouver marijuana activist Marc Emery is taking his last puff of freedom - as the clock counts down on an extradition order that will send him to a U.S. jail for five years.