Daily News Curation - 2025-11-09

Curated 19 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.

1. Could Canada join Eurovision Song Contest? Experts say audience needed

The federal budget included a line that said the government was working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore the possibility of Canada entering the Eurovision Song Contest. 📍 Source Score: 23.00

2. Federal budget commits $1B to Arctic Infrastructure Fund

The budget proposes $1 billion over four years for Transport Canada to invest in major transportation projects in the North]<p>The budget proposes $1 billion over four years for Transport Canada to invest in major transportation projects in the North, including airports, seaports, all-season roads and highways, for both civilian and military use. CBC News speaks with former army commander Andrew Leslie for more.</p> 📍 Source Score: 19.00

3. Old caves yield new secrets from Canadians who went over the top at Vimy Ridge

A man stands beside a woman using a handheld laser scanner on a chalk cave carving below Vimy Ridge<p>A hidden archive of what for many were last thoughts and tributes to Canada is emerging from the soft chalk tunnels beneath the Vimy Ridge battlefield more than a century after they were created.</p> 📍 Source Score: 15.00

4. Could a rise in Indigenous-led developments move the needle on Canada’s housing shortage?

📍 Source Score: 11.50

5. Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine

A colourized transmission electron microscope image of the influenza A H3N2 virus from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<p>With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccine.</p> 📍 Source Score: 10.50

6. N.S. Supreme Court chief justice defends staff poppy ban in some courtrooms

Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia notes banning court staff from wearing of poppies is ‘very sensitive,’ but said there can be ‘no signs of favouritism’ in court. 📍 Source Score: 8.80

7. Chief judges back court poppy ban after backlash

The heads of Nova Scotia’s supreme and provincial courts are expressing their support for judges who ban court staff from pinning poppies to their robes during proceedings after some Canadian politicians called the practice wrong. 📍 Source Score: 11.80

8. What’s in the federal budget for you? Your questions answered

Finance and National Revenue Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne shakes hands with Prime Minister Mark Carney.<p>Many Canadians wrote to us asking what they should be looking for in the new federal budget. CBC News’ Catherine Cullen and J.P. Tasker are here to help break down what is – and isn’t – in the budget.</p> 📍 Source Score: 12.00

9. Manitoba Government Honours Indigenous Veterans and Supports First-Annual Powwow

📍 Source Score: 10.50

10. The journey toward an expanded Port of Churchill has only just begun

An aerial photo shows a large ship at a port.<p>Compared to  other major projects  granted “national importance” status by Mark Carney’s Liberal government, the proposed expansion of the Port of Churchill is still a very fuzzy idea.</p> 📍 Source Score: 10.50

11. After fuel spill in B.C. lake, early tests show no contamination above drinking water guidelines

Cleanup efforts underway after a train derailment. <p>B.C. officials say that preliminary tests show no contamination above drinking water guidelines after 80,000 litres of fuel was spilled into Kamloops Lake following a train derailment.</p> 📍 Source Score: 10.00

12. Southern Ontario, parts of Quebec see 1st snowfall of the season

Snow is falling on parts of southern Ontario and southern and central Quebec on Sunday with the potential for some regions to see up to 20 centimetres of snow. 📍 Source Score: 9.00

13. Accessibility is coming to playgrounds in Regina

Sarah Turnbull isn’t just a city councillor, but also a mother, and she’s looking to make a change when it comes to accessible parks in Regina. 📍 Source Score: 4.50

14. Advocates concerned temporary immigration cuts don’t address systemic issues

A man stands in the House of Commons.<p></p> 📍 Source Score: 4.50

15. Margaret Atwood is finally calling people out in her new memoir

A woman sits in a chair for an interview.<p>Does Margaret Atwood hold a grudge? ‘I don’t have a choice. I’m a Scorpio,’ the celebrated Canadian novelist tells The Current in an interview about her new memoir Book of Lives.</p> 📍 Source Score: 4.50

16. How one North Vancouver school is redefining education for neurodiverse learners in B.C.

“Our students learn through doing.” 📍 Source Score: 2.60

17. Nield thrilled to help gambling Riders beat Lions

Touchdown Tommy Nield is going to the Grey Cup again – and this time he’s taking the Saskatchewan Roughriders with him. 📍 Source Score: 1.50

18. Roughriders off to Grey Cup after beating Lions

Tommy Nield’s three-yard touchdown reception with 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter lifted the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 24-21 victory over the B.C. Lions in the West Division final Saturday, sending the Riders to the Grey Cup. 📍 Source Score: 1.50

19. Riders score late TD to down Lions, punch ticket to Grey Cup

A man in a green jersey receives the football from another man in a green jersey<p>The Saskatchewan defence forced back-to-back two-and-out possessions to give their offence an opportunity to win the game.</p> 📍 Source Score: 1.50