A Regina woman who spent 3-1/2 years in solitary confinement cried as she recalled how a spiritual ceremony led by a First Nations elder helped her through difficult times at a B.C. prison.

Canada's correctional service continued to use indefinite solitary confinement for prisoners despite decades of policy-reform recommendations and a call for change from the prime minister.

A lawyer for a transgender woman who was forced to stay in a men's jail says his client hopes her human rights case against the British Columbia government will change policies for other inmates.

Protests against pipelines held in Vancouver and Seattle during prime minister's visits.

British Columbia's coroners service suspects carbon monoxide killed a family of four in their home in the province's Interior.

An urgent warning has been sent out to illicit drug users in British Columbia after at least 11 people died in the province on Thursday alone, six of them in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Health officials in Victoria are asking for public feedback in a bid to open two supervised drug consumption sites in a city where overdoses are continuing to surpass other regions in the province.

If legalized, 72 per cent of surveyed physicians think the government should regulate THC levels in recreational marijuana, and over half don't want medical weed sold in pharmacies.

One part of the research done on rats involved giving them THC, the intoxicating part of cannabis, and having them choose between an easy or hard task to earn sugary treats.

Bear biologists are trying to demystify the genetic makeup of a rare cream-coloured black bear cub spotted near the resort community of Whistler, B.C.