Daily News Curation - 2025-12-07
Curated 15 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Canada has legal duty to provide safe water, housing to remote First Nations, federal judge rules
<p>A federal judge has sided with two First Nations in Manitoba and one in Ontario that sued the Canadian government over its duty to provide them with safe housing and clean drinking water, in separate rulings delivered Friday.</p>
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Score: 35.40
2. Alberta clipper to bring snowy conditions to Atlantic provinces
A special weather statement has been issued by Environment Canada for all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island’s Kings and Queens counties, and eastern parts of Newfoundland. 📍 Source Score: 18.30
3. B.C. directs physicians to notify parents if child shows up with mental health, drug use issues
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/fb62ccec-3483-4d23-9d39-1c303f492f4a,1764972201875/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C81%2C5000%2C2812%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A man with his hair tied back in a bun is seen on a sunny day.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Dr. Daniel Vigo, B.C.’s chief scientific adviser for psychiatry, toxic drugs and concurrent disorders during the announcement of Alouette Homes, which will provide 18 beds for long-term involuntary care in Maple Ridge, B.C, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.’/><p>The B.C. government is issuing new guidance for physicians treating youth with overlapping mental health and substance use issues. It directs doctors to notify parents and potentially involuntarily detain youth if they’re unable or unwilling to seek care themselves.</p> 📍 Source Score: 19.50
4. B.C. Conservatives interim leader says party will ‘work co-operatively’ to repeal DRIPA
The appeal ruling says that the provincial declaration should be “properly interpreted” to incorporate UNDRIP into provincial laws with immediate effect. 📍 Source Score: 14.90
5. Liberals at risk in Quebec, appeasing Alberta with ‘solution that failed before’: Guilbeault
<p>Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with Quebec Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet last week, about his party’s deal with Alberta for a potential pipeline to the west coast of B.C., and why he thinks the federal government is stoking Quebec separatism by walking back its climate commitments.</p>
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Score: 19.50
6. Dozens of Indigenous artifacts return to Canada from Vatican
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders welcomed 61 Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican at Montreal’s airport, marking the first step in returning items held for decades. 📍 Source Score: 9.50
7. Canada’s Summer McIntosh swims to butterfly win and sets U.S. Open record
📍 Source Score: 9.50
8. Manitoba Government Invests $100,000 in Bairdmore School Playground
📍 Source Score: 7.50
9. Alberta’s Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions
Premier Danielle Smith says courts shouldn’t be “gatekeepers” to an independence referendum, defending legislation stopping a court case after a judge called it undemocratic. 📍 Source Score: 7.10
10. Moose Hunting Season Opens in Manitoba on December 1
📍 Source Score: 4.50
11. Saint John to pilot using private security to tackle crime concerns
<p>Saint John is launching a two-year, $780,000-per-year security pilot in crime-affected areas starting in early February. Guards will focus on de-escalation, not arrests, with oversight from the city.</p>
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Score: 4.50
12. Employer Prosecuted for Workplace Incident
📍 Source Score: 2.60
13. Employer Prosecuted for Workplace Incident
📍 Source Score: 2.60
14. Winnipeg moves to scrap bird-friendly window bylaw developers argue is barrier to development
<p>Conservation groups are raising concerns as the City of Winnipeg considers changing a development bylaw designed to help save birds from fatal window strikes.</p>
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Score: 2.00
15. Why was ‘incredible’ giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.’s big-tree protection law?
<p>Conservationists are questioning why an old-growth yellow cedar tree with a diameter that should have ensured its protection and a buffer area around it under provincial law was logged.</p>
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Score: 2.40