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Police in London, Ont., removed Occupy protesters from a city park early Wednesday, and officials in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa suggested they're ready to follow suit. Dozens of officers in London surrounded the park at about 12:30 a.m., as Day 18 of the anti-corporate-greed protest began. Police were back Wednesday night and a man with his leg in a cast was forcibly pulled from a tent, the first arrest in the Occupy London protest. The city had ordered the protesters to vacate the park by 6 p.m. Tuesday, and told them they'd be charged with trespassing after 10 p.m. But...

Drug overdose reported at Occupy Toronto site11/09/2011 | Shawne McKeown, CityNews.ca A man was rushed to hospital after he suffered a reported drug overdose Tuesday at Occupy Toronto’s home base at a downtown park. The incident happened after a 23-year-old woman was found dead at the Occupy Vancouver site Friday after an overdose. Paramedics in Toronto were called to St. James Park, at King and Church streets, late Tuesday morning to take the man, said to be in his 20s, to hospital, according to published reports. His condition wasn’t said to be life-threatening.

A female, who is believed in her 20s, died late Saturday afternoon at Occupy Vancouver in what Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services are calling a "medical emergency." VFRS spokesman Capt. Gabe Roder confirmed the woman who died was in a tent, but it is unknown whether she was a resident of the tent city. "We don't know if it's an overdose," Roder said.