To kick off autism month in Canada, the Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorders Alliance (CASDA) released a blueprint for a national strategy for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) Monday morning in Ottawa.

A Nova Scotia mother who shared her family's gut-wrenching experience with autism in the hopes of forcing political leaders to act, says she's still waiting.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced difficult questions from the crowd at a town hall in the Halifax area tonight, including from a member of the navy who has ALS and from the mother of a boy with severe autism.