Morning Update: This year’s flu throws a curveball | Unpublished
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Author: Danielle Groen
Publication Date: November 20, 2025 - 06:36

Morning Update: This year’s flu throws a curveball

November 20, 2025

Good morning. Because the flu shot is locked in six months early, it missed the strain now circulating through Canada – more on that below, along with a lopsided peace plan in Ukraine and the latest timeline to release the Epstein files. But first:

Today’s headlines


Unpublished Newswire

 
The latest entrant in the race to lead the federal New Democrats is a long-time activist who has confronted and filmed cabinet ministers and MPs in the street and is due to stand trial this month for allegedly harassing a police officer.Yves Engler, a self-described “political activist agitator,” announced last week that he had formally submitted a nomination package after spending months campaigning, holding meetings and raising money toward the $100,000 entry fee.
November 20, 2025 - 07:13 | Marie Woolf | The Globe and Mail
Peel Regional Police say two people are dead while four people are seriously hurt, including a child, after a house fire in Brampton early Thursday.
November 20, 2025 - 06:39 | Gabby Rodrigues | Global News - Ottawa
The phone rang early that morning. Amarjot Singh, half asleep in his Montreal apartment, fumbled for his cell. On the line was a relative, calling from India, his voice urgent: Amarjot’s name was in the papers. India’s National Investigation Agency was after him. Amarjot was being branded a terrorist. That day in June 2023, the Indian government accused him of leading a mob of protesters who allegedly threw two grenades into the country’s high commission in Ottawa during a Sikh protest three months earlier. Amarjot was shocked. And worried. In March that year, the then thirty-year-old...
November 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Katharine Lake Berz | Walrus