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Good morning. The first major piece of litigation dealing with solitary confinement for young inmates is set to go to trial in Canada. More on the landmark class-action lawsuit below, plus a closer look at labour troubles this summer and the Toronto International Film Festival’s 50th anniversary. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
September 2, 2025 - 06:29 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
Police in Toronto say they are looking for a man believed to have thrown a bicycle off a bridge and onto one of the city's busiest expressways.
September 2, 2025 - 06:26 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Toronto-area commuters are likely bracing for traffic and transit congestion to worsen over the coming months as a number of major employers get ready to increase in-office days.
September 2, 2025 - 06:19 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Toronto-area commuters are likely bracing for traffic and transit congestion to worsen over the coming months as a number of major employers get ready to increase in-office days.
September 2, 2025 - 06:19 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
The tragic deaths of teens who died by suicide after forming intimate relationships with AI chatbots — interactions their parents allege pushed their children over the edge — are raising warnings about how validating, nonjudgmental and uncannily lifelike bots have become.
What makes them so engaging, and so dangerous, experts said, is how compellingly they mimic human empathy and support.
“The danger is real, the potentially lethal use of these tools is real,” said Canadian lawyer Robert Diab, author of a...
September 2, 2025 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
Manitoba’s practice of putting incarcerated children in segregation jail cells − including some who are as young as 12 and 13 years old − will be challenged this fall when a landmark class-action lawsuit goes to trial.The case, which has been about seven years in the making, will be the first major piece of litigation dealing with youth inmate segregation to go to trial in Canada. It follows several recent lawsuits against governments in the country that have successfully challenged aspects of how solitary confinement is used in adult prisons.
September 2, 2025 - 06:00 | Robyn Doolittle, Chen Wang | The Globe and Mail
