Daily News Curation - 2025-11-22
Curated 31 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Canada Post, union reach ‘agreement in principle’ toward new deal
The Canadian Union of Postal Employees said Friday it will agree to pause strike action and enter final negotiations once the new deals are signed. 📍 Source Score: 21.50
2. B.C. and Alberta premiers continue public duel over pipeline
The Alberta and federal governments are said to be close to signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to move forward with the project. 📍 Source Score: 22.50
3. First in Canada program lets mothers undergo addiction treatment without leaving children
A Quebec program is being described as the only one of its kind in the country: a treatment centre that allows mothers to keep their children with them while they recover. 📍 Source Score: 19.70
4. What Alberta’s public-private doctor plan could mean for insurance, physician burnout, nurses and more
<p>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to allow physicians to dabble both in the public and private systems at the same time would be a Canadian first, and has drawn mixed reaction from critics and supporters alike. It has also prompted a number of questions. </p>
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Score: 20.50
5. Manitoba Government Passes Legislation to Respond to Meth Crisis
📍 Source Score: 19.10
6. Canada Post, union agree in principle to deal after 2 years of contentious bargaining
<p>Canada Post and the union representing thousands of mail carriers across the country say the parties have reached agreements in principle after two years of contentious bargaining. </p>
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Score: 14.00
7. Montreal clinic for vulnerable population faces closure amid Quebec’s controversial Bill 2
Montreal’s Clinique L’Agora may close due to Bill 2, putting 6,000 vulnerable unhoused patients, LGBTQ2, and those with complex health needs at risk of losing critical care 📍 Source Score: 14.50
8. Top court says federal prisoners can challenge security transfer denials before judge
<p>The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled federal inmates can challenge the refusal to transfer them to lower security prisons on the grounds their liberty is deprived.</p>
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Score: 12.50
9. IDF soldiers are doing speaking events in Canada. Some say they shouldn’t be here
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/e29cc290-a3ba-440f-873d-5a274e44968f,1763326474287/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C633%2C6500%2C3656%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’Three soldiers holding guns’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Israeli soldiers hold weapons, amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, September 13, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen EDITOR’S NOTE: REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHS WERE REVIEWED BY THE IDF AS PART OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE EMBED. NO PHOTOS WERE REMOVED.’/><p>A violent incident at a Toronto speaking event has sparked calls for more scrutiny on Israeli soldiers entering Canada, with some saying they should be barred entry or investigated for potential participation in war crimes amid accusations of genocide in Gaza.</p> 📍 Source Score: 10.70
10. Manitoba Government Creates Rental Construction Incentive Program
📍 Source Score: 12.00
11. Family law in Canada: What it gets right and where it fails
📍 Source Score: 9.50
12. Strike averted for Alberta nursing-care workers after last-minute deal
<p>The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees announced just after 9 a.m. on Saturday that its members will no longer be on strike after a tentative deal was reached for nursing-care workers.</p>
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Score: 11.60
13. Alberta nurses reach last-minute tentative deal to avoid strike
Just as nurses across Alberta were set to go on strike, the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) reached a tentative deal with the provincial government. 📍 Source Score: 10.10
14. Defence in Ontario couple’s murder trial suggests boy they were trying to adopt made up testimony for money
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/0ad4f86f-37de-4c45-8485-a48affe584e6,1761930276026/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C3750%2C2109%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A courtroom sketch of three people seated wearing lawyer robes.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Brandy Cooney’s lawyer is Kim Edward, left. Becky Hamber’s lawyers are Monte MacGregor, centre, and Nabeel Sheiban. Cooney and Hamber have pleaded not guilty at their murder trial in Milton, Ont.’/><p>Defence lawyers for two Burlington, Ont., women accused of murdering a boy in their care cross-examined his younger brother Friday, questioning his credibility, memory and motives. </p> 📍 Source Score: 9.00
15. Manitoba Tories defend reaction to ‘politically charged’ Transgender Day of Remembrance speech
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/11170c5b-6fa0-40c4-847f-8a70c0fcb84e,1763692985883/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C415%2C7952%2C4473%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A man in a grey suit stands in a legislative chamber.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Manitoba Progressive Conservative leader Obby Khan slammed the NDP government for refusing to fund treatment that would slow the progression of Jeremy Bray’s degenerative disease.’/><p>A day after a majority of Manitoba PC MLAs refused to stand in the chamber following a statement recognizing the Transgender Day of Remembrance, NDP members repeatedly heckled the Tories in the legislature, with the premier calling the PC leader a “bigot.”</p> 📍 Source Score: 8.70
16. Manitoba Government Improving Roads and Infrastructure in 2026, Celebrating Construction Award Winners
📍 Source Score: 7.50
17. On Our Radar: Blue Jay Valley shows why East Van rules in video for "Living In the City"
The kids are more than alright. 📍 Source Score: 5.00
18. 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
19. 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
20. Why Quebec’s proposed constitution has legal experts, civil rights groups sounding the alarm
<p>The legislation tabled last month has been the subject of growing consternation among legal experts and civil liberties groups, who warn it would centralize power, weaken judicial oversight and infringe on individual freedoms.</p>
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Score: 7.10
21. Waterboarding, sexual assault, disguises: Details of terrifying $2M B.C. bitcoin hostage-taking revealed
<p>The family of a B.C. bitcoin investor known for boasting of his cryptocurrency successes online was robbed of $2 million in a terrifying overnight hostage-taking involving waterboarding, sexual assault and death threats from four intruders they knew only as “One,” “Two,” “Three” and “Four.” </p>
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Score: 6.36
22. Manitobans Invited to the Legislative Building’s Holiday Open House
📍 Source Score: 4.50
23. Measles Update #45
📍 Source Score: 4.50
24. Why postal workers are calling for a public bank
📍 Source Score: 4.50
25. 30 can’t-miss Vancouver concerts for November 2025
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📍 Source Score: 4.50
26. My Play Made It to NYC! Why I’m Not Going
I should be thrilled. But it’s happening in the right place at the wrong time. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
27. Fans heartbroken, angry as Winnipeg’s Valour FC announces suspension of operations
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/ea63dc30-5982-4ef3-b2b9-c4aabc7e65a8,1763764848145/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C8%2C6500%2C3656%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A soccer player on a field jumps with two other players on either side of him.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Valour FC’s Federico Pena (77) jumps to avoid the tackle by Vancouver Whitecaps’ Sebastian Berhalter (16) as Ryan Raposo (27) watches during the first half of a preliminary round Canadian Championship soccer match, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/’/><p>Winnipeg’s professional men’s soccer club, Valour FC, announced Friday it has suspended operations. </p> 📍 Source Score: 4.50
28. You Nearly Missed: Molly Grace makes her Vancouver debut at the Fox Cabaret
The Nashville artist is touring in support of her new album, Blush. 📍 Source Score: 3.00
29. 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
30. A wildfire reduced this B.C. fire hall to rubble in 2023. Now, they’re rebuilding
<p>After operating out of a storage facility for the last two and a half years, construction on the new Scotch Creek Fire Hall has begun in B.C.’s Shuswap region. </p>
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Score: 3.00
31. Why 2025 Was the Loneliest Year
Connection online has rotted on the vine. With few alternatives, I’ve found myself more isolated than before. 📍 Source Score: 1.30