A Maple Ridge, B.C., mother has resurrected a petition to make vaccinations mandatory at public schools amid a measles outbreak in Vancouver where eight cases were reported at one school. By mid-afternoon Sunday, Katie Clunn's petition had more than 23,000 signatures, up from 8,000 on Friday. The measles vaccine is mandatory in Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick, but in B.C. Katie Clunn, who has two children and another on the way worries about another measles outbreak because the new baby can't be vaccinated until 2020. The spike in the number of petition signatures may be attributed to the recent outbreak of measles in Vancouver.

Source: CBC News February 18, 2019 02:03 UTC