Daily News Curation - 2025-11-06
Curated 35 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Ontario Grade 8 teacher pleads guilty to sex crimes against students
<p>An Ontario Grade 8 teacher who used Snapchat to send and solicit nude pictures from former students has pleaded guilty to luring and child pornography charges.</p>
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Score: 16.50
2. Manitoba Government Passes Legislation to Respond to Meth Crisis
📍 Source Score: 17.90
3. Peloton recalls 833K bikes — with 44K in Canada — over seat post break risk
Peloton is recalling thousands of bicycle seat posts in Canada and the United States for risk of breaking, which can lead to falls and injury. 📍 Source Score: 14.30
4. The Supreme Court of Canada Wants You to Call 911 if Someone Is Overdosing
Police can’t arrest a person for drug possession if they call for help and stick around, a new ruling finds. 📍 Source Score: 13.50
5. Used car prices are dropping slightly in Canada, but remain high
Data shows used car prices are up from last year but slowly declining month to month. Still, consumers may not be eager to make a purchase because of affordability concerns. 📍 Source Score: 13.10
6. ‘We’re in an Emergency. We Have Got to Start Talking’
Environmentalist and documentarian Avi Lewis is taking another swing at federal politics. This time, he wants to lead the NDP. A Tyee Q&A. 📍 Source Score: 13.80
7. IN PHOTOS | Scenes from Prince Harry’s visit in Toronto
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/8f14e103-8977-4f0e-8918-4fa133251c00,1762455755357/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C25%2C4800%2C2700%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A man in a suit crouches next to an elderly veteran who is seated and pointing to a framed picture on the table.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Prince Harry, right, talks with Second World War veteran Ed Marshall as he meets with some of Canada’s oldest veterans, joining them in a creative arts program at Sunnybrook Hospital’s veterans centre in Toronto on Thursday.’/><p>Prince Harry, who served in Afghanistan as a member of the British military, is attending several events in Toronto commemorating veterans ahead of Remembrance Day. </p> 📍 Source Score: 14.00
8. Supreme Court will hear appeals of Saskatchewan’s school pronoun law
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.6999378,1697579559000/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C433%2C4032%2C2268%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A youth waves a LGBTQ2+ flag on the steps of the provincial legislature in Regina, Sask. ‘ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Students across the City of Regina walked out of school on Tuesday and gathered at the provincial legislature to protest the Saskatchewan government’s controversial pronoun policy. ‘/><p>No date has been set for the court to hear the cross appeals from the provincial government and UR Pride on the province’s school pronoun law, which prevents children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent.</p> 📍 Source Score: 13.80
9. Alberta health care workers vote 98% for strike
📍 Source Score: 13.50
10. Manitoba Government Creates Rental Construction Incentive Program
📍 Source Score: 12.00
11. Will Alberta Kill Recall Laws Now That UCP MLAs Are at Risk?
Legislation stripping teachers of their Charter rights has brought new challenges to the Smith government. 📍 Source Score: 10.10
12. Woman’s body found in wrecked car at tow yard hours after fatal Ontario crash kills Lyft driver
Peel police say the body of a woman was discovered after the fact in the back seat of a wrecked car in the tow yard, and only hours after her family had reported her missing. 📍 Source Score: 9.00
13. Alberta RCMP officers won’t be charged in fatal shooting of 15-year-old boy: police watchdog
<p>An Alberta Serious Response Incident Team investigation says the officers shot at the teenager up to 17 times as he came toward them in a field, holding his arm up in a backpack so that it appeared he was pointing a gun.</p>
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Score: 9.00
14. Challenging labour market, lower population growth in store for Ontario amid tariffs
<p>Ontario’s deficit projection is shrinking in its fall fiscal update, but so are the province’s expectations for the labour market as U.S. tariffs are expected to continue hitting the economy.</p>
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Score: 8.80
15. Canadian history is dotted with floor-crossers. Voters haven’t always been thrilled
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/c42ec905-d3ab-4d33-872b-3d079fcc632c,1762380677119/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%2829%2C316%2C4034%2C2269%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’People applaud a man in a suit as he enters a room’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’MP Chris d’Entremont, who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to join the Liberals, is applauded by his new colleagues as he arrives at a meeting of the Liberal Caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang’/><p></p> 📍 Source Score: 9.00
16. Manitoba Government Accepts All Recommendations From Independent Review of The Planning Amendment Act and The City of Winnipeg Charter Amendment Act (Bill 37)
📍 Source Score: 7.50
17. Manitoba Government Adds 800 Teachers in Two Years
📍 Source Score: 7.50
18. Carney government to face crucial confidence votes Thursday, Friday
The House of Commons is set to vote Thursday on a Conservative subamendment to the budget, followed by a Bloc Quebecois amendment vote on Friday. 📍 Source Score: 7.50
19. On Our Radar: Scarlet Fever’s debut LP, Girl with Shank, cuts deep
The four-piece Vancouver band has been a regular at shows around town lately. 📍 Source Score: 5.00
20. There’s still time to win a Canadian getaway—and support B.C.’s hospitality workers
Two days left to support BC hospitality workers. 📍 Source Score: 7.50
21. Losing hope, he quit the Nunavik police. Years later, many still feel unsupported by the force
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/bd668e7e-efce-474b-83e3-ee2f1817047c,1762379789315/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%28204%2C0%2C2152%2C1210%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A man standing in front of a town in between mountains’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Johnny Saunders pictured in Salluit, Nunavik. It’s the community where 26-year-old Joshua Papigatuk was killed and his twin brother injured in a police-involved shooting that made headlines across the province.’/><p>Johnny Saunders quit his job as a Nunavik police officer 20 years ago. He says the same issues that led to him leave remain unaddressed. Earlier this week, residents held marches across the region to denounce police brutality and an erosion of trust.</p> 📍 Source Score: 6.00
22. Recent bear attacks, close encounters prompt calls to bring back Alberta’s grizzly hunt
Close calls and grizzly bear sightings among livestock has some wondering whether Alberta should bring back its long-banned grizzly hunt. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
23. Montana city launches campaign to woo back Canadian visitors: ‘We miss you’
The Canadian Welcome Pass includes 15 businesses and a mix deals on lodging, retail, dining and museums in Kalispell, located near the border, about five hours south of Calgary. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
24. Albertans may eventually suffer from petition fatigue
📍 Source Score: 4.50
25. 30 can’t-miss Vancouver concerts for November 2025
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📍 Source Score: 4.50
26. Has Separatism Gone Mainstream in Alberta?
We spent the summer exploring the question. Here’s what we learned. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
27. Crews in hazmat suits move in on ostriches at B.C. farm after top court dismisses appeal to save flock
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Score: 4.50
28. ‘We miss you’: Kalispell, Mont., launches campaign to woo back Canadian visitors
📍 Source Score: 4.50
29. New N.S. study finds microplastics in edible portions of lobster tails
<p>Dalhousie University researchers found an average of six to seven microplastic particles per gram of meat.</p>
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Score: 3.50
30. Body of 2nd victim in fatal Brampton, Ont., crash only discovered once car was in police impound lot
<p>Peel police say that the second victim in a crash involving a youth driver in Brampton Saturday was found hours after the collision, after the two vehicles had already been transported to the police impound yard.</p>
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Score: 4.50
31. Heart of the City Festival showcases the Downtown Eastside’s commitment to building community
“These are real people, with real feelings.” 📍 Source Score: 3.00
32. New Brunswick hospital ordered to pay man $5K because staff didn’t speak French
Paul Ouellet brought forward his legal challenge after staff at the Moncton hospital couldn’t speak with him in French on numerous occasions in 2020. 📍 Source Score: 1.00
33. Liberal Nova Scotia MP fined $600 for breaching election financing law
The elections law violations stem back six years, to a July 2019 candidate nomination contest in Sydney—Victoria that Battiste won. 📍 Source Score: 1.30
34. Premier, Gopher join forces for CFL’s Green Riders
Saskatchewan’s premier is teaming up with the province’s largest, most-huggable rodent to cheer on the Green Riders in the CFL’s Western final this weekend. 📍 Source Score: 1.30
35. Asked to Improve Transparency, School Board Keeps Private Meetings
Updated policies don’t reflect requests to improve access to democratic process, says one Vancouver school trustee. 📍 Source Score: 1.30