Daily News Curation - 2025-11-12
Curated 20 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Renowned exoplanet researcher Sara Seager is bringing her quest to find another Earth back home to Canada
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/5624cf0f-7329-4c96-926b-4072a3e718ac,1762544797508/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C911%2C3024%2C1701%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A woman with brown shoulder-length hair and a maroon jacket hold a golden object.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Renowned exoplanet researcher Sara Seager stands holding one of the probes proposed for a mission to Venus. After 20 years at MIT, she is returning to Canada where she’ll be a professor at the University of Toronto.’/><p>Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT. Her research includes looking for life in the clouds of Venus and searching for Earth 2.0.</p> 📍 Source Score: 15.20
2. Severe solar storm could trigger auroras across Canada and northern U.S. states
<p>Skygazers are spotting the lights deeper into Canada, the U.S. and Europe because the sun is going through a major facelift. Every 11 years, its poles swap places, causing magnetic twists and tangles along the way.</p>
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Score: 14.00
3. These WW I amputees hiked from Alberta to Ontario on crutches a century ago
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/71746453-b7cb-4ad0-9dba-2663f1de06f5,1762901207966/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1128%2C634%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’Black and white grainy phot of two men, each missing a leg and wearing military uniforms, stand side-by-side on crutches with their arms around each other’s shoulders.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’George Hincks and Marshall McDougall appeared in the Winnipeg Evening Tribune as they hiked from Calgary to Ottawa in 1923.’/><p></p> 📍 Source Score: 13.50
4. Lethbridge gathers to remember Canada’s fallen soldiers
Two well-attended Remembrance Day ceremonies in Lethbridge, Alta., drew hundreds of residents to honour Canada’s fallen soldiers. 📍 Source Score: 9.50
5. Durham regional police’s ‘poisoned’ workplace highlighted in Ontario Civilian Police Commission report
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Score: 11.00
6. Veterans thrilled with Remembrance Day turnout in Calgary: ‘It wasn’t for nothing’
‘Today is my most important day of the year. It’s honouring those who have gone before us and those who are following,’ said Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Rick Ostashower. 📍 Source Score: 7.50
7. Manitoba Government Introduces Legislation to Provide Tax Relief to Manufacturers
📍 Source Score: 10.10
8. Manitoba Government Strengthens Early Reading Screening and Supports for Young Students
📍 Source Score: 10.50
9. Manitoba Government’s Mineral Development Fund Supports Future Mining Opportunities
📍 Source Score: 10.50
10. Alberta animal rescues forced to freeze intakes: ‘Like giving a death sentence’
For animals rescues across Alberta, with winter fast approaching, the situation is dire. Demand is through the roof, donations are low and volunteers are scarce. 📍 Source Score: 9.00
11. Saskatoon gathers for city’s 94th anniversary of Remembrance Day services
2025’s Remembrance Day ceremony at the SaskTel Centre drew in quite a large crowd. With thousands in attendance, people came to show appreciation to veterans and fallen soldiers. 📍 Source Score: 9.00
12. Letter written days before end of WWII sheds light on Canadian soldier in Germany
The letter, written by Tom a few days before the end of the war, says, ‘This morning’s edition of the news says Hitler is dead and that his successor will fight until the last.’ 📍 Source Score: 9.00
13. Manitoba Government Completed 23 Summer Infrastructure Projects
📍 Source Score: 7.50
14. ‘It’s about all of us’: Armed Forces, veterans gather for Remembrance Day in Montreal
Under heavy snowfall, dignitaries including mayor-elect Soraya Martinez Ferrada and member of Parliament Marc Miller, who is a former infantry commander. 📍 Source Score: 5.00
15. ‘Everybody’s gone’: Canadians mark Remembrance Day as number of veterans dwindle
‘Events of the Second World War are very rapidly moving from the realm of lived history of people you can talk to … into history where you can’t talk to the people who remember.’ 📍 Source Score: 4.50
16. Water From Your Eyes bring chaotic brilliance to the Biltmore Cabaret
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📍 Source Score: 4.50
17. Cariboo residents rally for missing mother of 3, Jennifer Provencal
Jennifer Provencal, a mother of three sons, has lived in the small unincorporated community of Forest Grove, just off Highway 97 near 100 Mile House, for almost two decades. 📍 Source Score: 3.00
18. Measles Update #43
📍 Source Score: 1.30
19. Roughrider, Alouette superfans prep for Grey Cup
Lance Hackewich loves his Saskatchewan Roughriders – and he’s got a 75-year-old desiccated, positively inedible piece of history to prove it. 📍 Source Score: 1.30
20. Shaping Saskatchewan: Ernie Walker
Wanuskewin Heritage Park is working towards a UNESCO World Heritage designation. Ernie Walker, the chief archaeologist and co-founder of the park, is leading the push. 📍 Source Score: 1.30