A member of the Saskatoon Police Service was hit by a vehicle on Circle Drive near the 108th Street overpass on Wednesday afternoon, police have confirmed to Global News.

The collision occurred Wednesday shortly after 1 p.m. in the southbound lane along a construction zone on Circle Drive at the 108th Street overpass. The speed limit in that area is 60 km/h.

Police did not provide any information about the officer’s condition.

Circle Drive East was closed in the southbound lanes from Attridge Drive to College Drive as of 2:30 p.m.

More to come. 

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A museum on Vancouver Island to honour ship crew members who lost their lives during the Second World War is marking its final operating day on Nov. 11.

The HMCS Alberni Museum and Memorial in Courtenay pays tribute to the 59 men who died when their warship, the Corvette HMCS Alberni, was sunk off the coast of England during the Second World War.

But now, the museum says it has to close after years of declining visits and revenue.

“Until about two years ago, we had no idea that we would be in this situation,” Lewis Bartholomew, founder and executive director of the museum, told Global News.

“We’ve been in similar situations in the past when, for instance, a landlord would want our space and then we’d have to scramble for a new space — but we always knew that we would open if we moved to somewhere else.”

Bartholomew said the museum has faced a lot of challenges over the years, but has managed to survive them all.

“We’ve had three flash floods in this building that have closed us down for short terms,” he said.

“We’ve had two arson attacks against us here. We survived through the COVID pandemic. We’ve also survived moving probably 18 times since 2012 for various reasons.

“But this one here sort of came out of the blue for us. We weren’t expecting the new changes to have affected us so much.”

The museum is located inside a small mall on Cliffe Avenue, next to the Connect Temporary Shelter and Service Hub.

The building that was leased from the city was intended as a temporary space for the area’s homeless population, but that was six years ago.

The museum operators say they know there is a need for housing, but the expectation when Connect moved in was that it would be there for six to 12 months before a new location would be found.

Bartholomew said the museum dropped from 6,000 to 7,000 visitors per year to only 759 visitors last year and the majority of their income comes from donations.

“Two years ago, the board saw the writing on the wall, that the three of us that work here or volunteer here could not keep paying the bills out of our own pocket,” he said.

“And so plans were made originally to completely liquidate, which really hurt me personally because this is my child, I guess you would call it. And then we realized that we could not possibly close completely.

“First of all, we’re an official Canadian Veterans Memorial for the crew who served on HMCS Alberni. The other thing is that over the years, people have families that have entrusted us with their own family’s personal history, with their personal remembrances that they have that they’ve wanted to make public.”

Bartholomew said the museum has so many artifacts that mean so much to many families that they didn’t want to pass them on to another museum or a private collector.

So they are giving themselves at least two years to restructure and reevaluate their programs, including for veterans and children, and to convert exhibits into portable ones to tour museums and other festivals on Vancouver Island.

“We just won’t have a physical presence for a while,” Bartholomew said.

He added the community has always stepped up to help in times of need, but they would require more funding from a foundation or an individual benefactor to secure a permanent location.

Bartholomew said the museum will be open until sunset on Remembrance Day.

“We’ll start our ceremony of bells of peace and that will start right about 5:30 in our hallway, of which we will ring the bell 100 times, naming off a random list of names, veterans, and we’ll also allow members of the public who are attending this to ring the bell for themselves for their own particular loved ones,” he added.

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Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large exchange of prisoners of war, both sides said Wednesday as two days of U.S.-mediated talks concluded with no major breakthrough on ending Moscow’s nearly five-year-old full-scale invasion.

Hopes had been low for any significant development in the first meeting in nine months between the delegations. Russia and Ukraine have from time to time swapped POWs but have remained far apart in their demands for accepting a peace settlement.

U.S. officials say they are determined to revive Washington’s peace efforts that so far have failed to deliver significant results.

Along with postwar security guarantees for both countries, other key hurdles are the fate of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and what role European countries will play in an eventual settlement.

The sides last met in February on Russia’s invasion, which analysts and humanitarian organizations say has killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of civilians.

The talks lasted just under two hours Wednesday, after a four-hour session the previous day.

“One of the positives is we agreed that we’re going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we’re going to finalize the numbers tomorrow,” said Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, after the Abu Dhabi talks ended.

Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation, and Rustem Umerov, who led Kyiv’s contingent, confirmed the planned POW exchange, although Medinsky noted the agreement was “in principle.”

Alexander Zorin, a deputy chief of the General Staff’s information department who attended the talks, told Russian state TV it would be one of the biggest such swaps since 1,000 soldiers from each side returned home last year.

The latest exchange could take place in the next two or three weeks, he said.

Kushner said he and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow on Thursday to meet with President Vladimir Putin, then fly to Dublin, Ireland, to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Ukrainian leader gave a muted welcome to the outcome of the talks, saying a proposed prisoner exchange was a positive step. But he said Ukraine will not give in to demands that it cede its territory that has been occupied by Russia in exchange for peace.

Medinsky said he felt the talks helped Moscow and Kyiv edge closer to peace, while Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov described them as “substantive and quite useful.”

Umerov said Kyiv’s delegation was expected to meet later Wednesday with representatives of European governments, the European Union and NATO who were in the capital of the United Arab Emirates but did not attend the three-way talks.

Moscow doesn’t want European countries, which are concerned about Russia’s conduct and broader intentions on the continent, involved in the direct negotiations. Kushner said one of the goals of the Moscow meeting is to try to get Europeans added to the talks.

In Dublin, Zelenskyy said it was positive that security advisers and senior officials from European governments, the EU and NATO were in Abu Dhabi, even though they were not a part of the talks.

Despite that. he said there had been a “change in temperature,” with Washington warming to the idea of a European role.

“Ending this war without Europe’s participation would be unjust, and it would be impossible,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said European representatives could eventually join peace talks but added their current statements “don’t indicate any desire on their part to contribute to movement along the path toward peace.” Moscow complains that Europe is financing and supplying weaponry to Ukraine.

Kushner said both Ukraine and Russia needed clarity on postwar security arrangements. He said European countries, the EU and NATO have to be involved in those discussions to build consensus on next steps.

Ukraine wants to ensure that Moscow doesn’t invade again, and EU officials say any discussions on Europe’s security arrangements could only start after a ceasefire. Many in Europe see the inclusion of Russia in those plans as a concession to Putin, who has described NATO’s eastward expansion as a top security threat to his country. Moscow has demanded that the alliance’s troops be pulled back its troops from Russia’s borders.

Russia’s security concerns were discussed at the talks, Kushner said, adding that Moscow was told it needs to provide different de-escalation proposals acceptable to Europe.

“The reality is, is there’s no trust right now between the sides. And that’s to be expected after a conflict like this,” he said. But he posted on X later that the POW exchange “will reunite families, build trust and create momentum toward peace.”

The context of the negotiations has changed since the February meeting in Geneva. The Trump administration now must reckon with Democrats taking over the U.S. Congress in January following the U.S. midterm elections, and they could demand more support for Ukraine.

Also, Russia’s wartime economy is under heavy strain, and Ukraine is reeling from devastating aerial attacks on its power grid.

Fighting continues on the front line, where little territory has changed hands this year. Both countries are battering each other with long-range missiles and drones.

Three people died and 11 were injured after Russia launched a daytime attack on a market in the southern Odesa region, local authorities said. Residential buildings were damaged, said Oleh Kiper, head of the regional military administration.

Overnight, Russia struck the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine and the eastern city of Kharkiv, wounding seven civilians and damaging property, Ukrainian officials said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it downed 627 Ukrainian drones overnight, 150 of them over the region around St. Petersburg. Regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko said the drones started a fire at the port of Ust-Luga, a main facility for Russian oil exports, injuring three workers.

Meanwhile, a 49-year-old Indonesian man reportedly was captured on the battlefield in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region after he claimed he was unknowingly recruited to fight for the Russian military.

The Indonesian Embassy in Kyiv was seeking access to the man, who was in Ukrainian custody, according to Yvonne Mewengkang, a spokesperson for the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to Ukraine’s “I Want to Live” project that offers Russian troops the opportunity to surrender, the man was taken to occupied Donetsk with no military training and then to the Zaporizhzhia region, where his unit was attacked and he was captured.

The man said he signed what he believed to be a contract to work in construction for one year in Moscow, the group said on Telegram.

Ukrainian and Russian officials had no immediate comment.

—AP reporters Susie Blann in Kyiv, Ukraine, Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal and Edna Tarigan in Jakarta contributed.

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Italy‘s Premier Giorgia Meloni said there was no indication of any “concrete danger” to schools nationwide on Wednesday after hundreds of educational institutions in the country were evacuated following an emailed bomb threat, the latest in a slew of disruptive hoaxes aimed at European airlines, media outlets and institutions.

Schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland also received similar threats, but no evacuations were reported, according to the Associated Press.

The Italian Education Ministry said the threat was emailed to over 6,300 schools.

In a video message shared on X, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said the government would not let “an anonymous email decide our children’s school calendar.”

“Whoever did this wanted a nation that was paralyzed and afraid. They will find a nation that wakes up tomorrow, takes its children to school, and goes to work. That is the response, and it is the strongest one we have,” the statement said.

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Investigations were underway, she added, saying that a meeting of ministers was scheduled to take place late Wednesday.

The anonymous email also contained a threat to Meloni, the AP and LaPresse news agency reported; she did not address the threat in her statement.

The email reportedly contained especially violent threats and was signed by the same name used in last week’s threats against European broadcasters. Investigators have not attributed the threats to any group or state, and there is no evidence linking the hoaxes to any governments, the AP reports.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed Wednesday that it was investigating the circumstances of threatening emails sent to schools across the country, and said it was treating the incident as a hoax.

“Over 300 schools to date have reported to police receiving the same emailed message which contained a threat. It is believed similar emails have been received by some schools in Scotland,” the statement said. The email originated from outside the U.K., it added.

Assistant Chief Constable Anthony McNally said: “We take incidents of this nature very seriously and we understand the concern in the community, school communities and for students and parents.”

Also on Wednesday, Police Scotland said several schools in Scotland had received “threatening messages,” and were also being treated as hoaxes.

It acknowledged the distress it may have caused to pupils and parents but said there was no requirement to evacuate schools based on the content of the emails, which it said do not “represent a credible threat.”

The school threats came less than a week after flights across Europe faced disruptions after false bomb threats were sent to several airlines, including Polish airline LOT, Scandinavian Airlines, Wizz Air and Ryanair. The incidents occurred a day after a plane headed for Bulgaria was diverted to Hungary after receiving a similar bomb threat while in the air. No one was injured.

Last month, a flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Bulgaria following a bomb threat.

False bomb threats are relatively common, but the latest raised concerns because they came in the wake of other disruptions across Europe, including attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems and drone incursions as well as bomb threats sent to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria on Friday.

— with files from the Associated Press

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A new program is recognizing more than 300 Canadian veterans, military spouses and retired RCMP members who are living in care facilities for older adults.

Dubbed “The Proud 305” by All Seniors Care Living Centres, the initiative honours veterans, spouses of Canadian Armed Forces members and RCMP workers who live in its homes. The company said the project title comes from the fact that there are 305 people being recognized in 2026 — the program’s inaugural year.

All Seniors Care Living Centres operates across Canada, with locations in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

David Rosnar was one of the people honoured. He served as an army reserve lieutenant in the early 1960s.

“We have freedoms now. We can walk the streets and not have to worry about things. And I used to wear my poppy more than one day because I thought we shouldn’t just remember these things (for) one day,” Rosnar told Global News.

He, along with the hundreds of others being recognized this year, is among the people the organization is calling The Proud 305’s “founding members.” That title can only be held by the people being honoured this year, the company said in a news release. Founding members each received a certificate.

On top of acknowledging the groups’ broader contributions to Canada, The Proud 305 also notes the impacts they had on the communities they lived in.

In Rosnar’s case, he used to be a teacher. Among the lessons his students learned was the importance of remembrance, he said.

All Seniors Care Living Centres is a division of Castle Living Group. Lily Goodman, CEO of Castle Living Group, said that the founding members “represent an extraordinary legacy of service, sacrifice, courage and resilience.”

“We wanted to create something that goes beyond an annual day of remembrance – a lasting way to recognize the people among us who have served our country and supported those who did,” Goodman added in the news release.

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Muskoka’s outgoing regional chair says he’s “deeply disappointed” after the Ford government ousted him from the role in favour of Scott Aitchison, a current Conservative MP who plans to step away from Parliament Hill.

Jeff Lehman, the former Mayor of Barrie who was elected as the regional council chair in December 2022, found himself out of a job after Premier Doug Ford unveiled hand-picked eight appointees who would serve as the heads of upper tier councils.

In a social media post, Lehman said he “pursued” the appointment as part of the province’s application process and was backed by fellow council members and “many voices in Muskoka” who advocated for a term extension.

Ultimately, the government said it chose a candidate who “brings a deep understanding of their municipalities and a proven record of performance and public service.”

Lehman, however, defended his record over the past four years and pushed back on the process.

“The District has delivered a 3x increase in the amount of affordable housing built in Muskoka, faster paramedics, more child care, less garbage, and better roads – all while delivering the second-lowest tax increase of the regional municipalities in Ontario,” Lehman said in the post.

Lehman, who has been affiliated with the Ontario Liberal Party, also called out the politics of “partisanship patronage.”

“There is no Conservative or Liberal way to snowplow a road, build a home, or treat drinking water. Heads of Council should always be selected by their communities and their local elected representatives,” he said.

The Ford government recently gave itself powers to appoint regional chairs in Durham, Halton, Muskoka and Waterloo and also extended an existing power to appoint the chairs in Niagara, Peel and York Regions.

The regional chairs will also get so-called strong chair powers, including to appoint or fire the chief administrative officer and division heads, direct staff, veto certain bylaws and propose the municipal budget.

Critics have slammed the Ford government this week, particularly for its appointment of Vaughan Mayor Stephen Del Duca as the Chair of York Region, stating that it’s a conflict of interest.

Aitchison is a Conservative MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka, but said he plans to step down in November and will be sworn in as chair of the District of Muskoka on Dec 1.

Global News has reached out to Lehman for comment.

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Kylie Jenner is facing a new lawsuit from a former housekeeper who claims she was trapped inside the cosmetic mogul’s closet, bitten by a dog and accidentally pepper sprayed in the face.

In the new lawsuit, viewed and obtained by Global News, Dinora Carolina Cabria Amaya accused Jenner, Kylie Jenner Inc. and two members of her staff Laura Dooly and Itzel Sibrian of disability discrimination, retaliation for reporting unsafe working conditions, wrongful termination and a number of labour violations.

The lawsuit, filed on Nov. 5 in Los Angeles Superior Court, says that Amaya began working as a housekeeper for Jenner in or about March 2025.

Amaya alleges that on Sept. 4, 2025, while cleaning and organizing a drawer in Jenner’s laundry room, an unsecured canister of pepper spray allegedly discharged directly into her eyes and face.

“Plaintiff started to experience severe burning and vision problems and reported the injury to Defendant Dooley via text, ‘sorry to interrupt you, I had an accident at work, someone left pepper spray and took off safety.’ Defendant Dooley responded with, ‘thanks for letting us know,'” the lawsuit alleges.

On another occasion, Dooley allegedly instructed Amaya to enter Jenner’s closet and provided a passcode.

“Plaintiff became locked inside for more than an hour. Plaintiff called Dooley and told her she was trapped and having a panic attack. Dooley laughed and mocked her stating, ‘No one is at the house that can let you out and I cannot give the password to anyone else, you just have to wait.’ Plaintiff was forced to remain inside until someone could release her,” the lawsuit alleges.

Amaya claims that she did not consent to being locked inside the closet or remaining confined against her will.

“Upon discovering that she could not exit, Plaintiff immediately contacted Defendant Dooley, advised her that she was trapped, and requested assistance. Despite knowing that Plaintiff could not leave and was experiencing severe panic and emotional distress, Defendant Dooley allegedly laughed at Plaintiff’s predicament and refused to disclose the access information necessary to obtain her release,” the lawsuit claims.

Amaya said that she remained confined in the closet for more than one hour before another person was able to release her.

Amaya alleges that she experienced “substantial fear, anxiety, humiliation and emotional distress as a result of the confinement and Defendants’ response to her requests for assistance.”

In another incident on Oct. 28, 2025, Amaya alleges that she was assigned to clean Jenner’s doghouse.

“While performing the assigned work, Defendants’ dog bit her. Plaintiff immediately reported the injury to Defendant Dooley. Again, no meaningful assistance was provided. Plaintiff purchased over-the-counter medication and treated the injury herself,” the lawsuit adds.

On Feb. 6, 2026, Amaya claims that she arrived for work and was called into a meeting with Human Resources representative Leigh Alvarez and Dooley, where she alleges she was wrongfully terminated after requesting mileage and reporting work injuries.

“Plaintiff believes that her protected wage-related complaints and discussions were contributing factors in the decision to terminate her employment. Plaintiff also believes Defendants terminated her after she complained about her wages and workplace treatment, suffered and reported multiple workplace injuries, repeatedly reported her continuing physical symptoms and asked Defendants for help,” the lawsuit says.

Amaya alleges that she suffered lost earnings, lost employment benefits, emotional distress, humiliation, anxiety and other damages.

“When someone employs workers, they assume legal responsibilities. Shaker Law Group intends to ensure those responsibilities are taken seriously, regardless of the address. The truth should never be buried behind wealth, fear, or silence. Shaker Law Group invites current and former employees, as well as anyone with firsthand knowledge of the allegations, to contact our firm confidentially. No one should fear speaking the truth,” Amaya’s lawyer Della Shaker said in a statement to Global News.

Amaya’s lawsuit against Jenner comes after three other former employees filed lawsuits against the Kylie Cosmetics mogul, alleging workplace discrimination.

Michael Rhodes, a lawyer for Jenner told NBC News that the four cases brought against The Kardashians star were being represented by the same lawyer.

“It’s clear that this lawyer wants to use publicity to try and extract an unwarranted payday. We’re not going to be intimidated into doing that,” Rhodes said. “As such, we’ll defend these meritless cases vigorously and look forward to telling our side of the story.”

Global News has reached out to Rhodes for further comment, but has not received a response.

In June, a former private chef for the 29-year-old reality star filed a complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging discrimination, harassment, emotional distress, wrongful termination, retaliation and failure to pay proper wages.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the chef claims that her demanding workload led her to suffer a miscarriage and the complaint alleges that the woman worked 11- to 12-hour shifts, five days a week, while being assigned physically demanding tasks despite telling supervisors of her high-risk pregnancy.

Weeks prior, Juana Delgado Soto, who worked as a housekeeper for the reality TV star for six years, filed the lawsuit against Jenner, Kylie Jenner Inc., staff supervisor Itzel Sibrian, Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services, alleging racial discrimination, harassment, failure to pay wages, failure to prevent or remedy harassment and discrimination, wrongful termination and more.

The suit obtained by Global News alleges that in April 2025, after “repeated failures by management to address Soto’s concerns, she wrote a long letter to Jenner detailing the harassment, discrimination and retaliation and placed it on Jenner’s massage bed immediately before her massage.”

Soto alleges that the following day, she was “threatened with termination and instructed never to contact Jenner again.”

Soto is seeking an unspecified amount of punitive and compensatory damages.

“On behalf of our clients, we want to be clear: no employee—regardless of the power, wealth, or fame of their employer—should ever be forced to endure unlawful working conditions, wage violations, retaliation, intimidation, or mistreatment in the workplace,” Soto’s lawyer Shaker previously told Global News in a statement.

Shaker also represents Angelica Hernandez Vasquez, who filed a lawsuit against Kylie Jenner Inc., Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services.

Vasquez claims she was subjected to “severe and pervasive harassment” while working at the beauty mogul’s home.

Vasquez worked for Jenner from September 2024 to August 2025, and claims that from her first day on staff at Jenner’s residence in Hidden Hills, Calif., she was treated with “hostility and exclusion” by the head housekeeper, identified as Patsy, and another supervisor, identified as Elsi, according to court documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times, People and E! News.

Vasquez alleges that the defendants failed to pay her in full, paid her late, failed to pay overtime wages and failed to reimburse business expenses, according to the Times.

She’s requesting a jury trial and seeking damages “in the form of unpaid wages, meal and rest period premium pay, unreimbursed business expenses, unpaid sick leave, and all other compensation unlawfully withheld.”

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Stopping treatment of type 2 diabetes with GLP-1 weight loss medications may lead to a doubled risk of heart attack, stroke or death, a new study shows.

The study, published Monday in the Lancet Regional Health Europe, looked at more than 80,000 Italians with type 2 diabetes and no established heart disease. Data was collected between 2004 and 2024.

Researchers found four in every 100 of those people a year who stopped taking GLP-1 treatments had a non-fatal heart attack or stroke, or died, compared to about two in 100 of the people who stayed on the medication.

Those with a body mass index of 30 or more, people considered medically obese, also showed a higher risk among those who stopped treatment than those under that BMI range.

Of the more than 80,000 people who started GLP-1s, those who stayed on treatment did so for about three years. The group that did not stay on treatment, about 60 per cent, is reported to have stopped use after about one year.

But while the study raises questions about what factors could be behind that increase for some, researchers caution that as an observational study there are certain factors they couldn’t determine.

An analysis by the British Medical Journal notes the study could not determine if discontinuing GLP-1 drugs directly caused the increased risk, or if people who experienced a higher risk of health events were already in poorer health.

The BMJ also cautioned the study did not analyze why people stopped taking the drugs, such as potential gastrointestinal side effects, the high cost some drugs have, or potential illnesses. Some patients may have stopped because they were already in poor health, the journal added.

Dr. Christopher Labos, cardiologist and epidemiologist at McGill University, stressed the Lancet study compared two groups of diabetic patients.

“In one sense, what you’re saying is that these medications actually have a very clear cardiovascular benefit, which is known, and if you stop them, you don’t get that cardiovascular benefit,” Labos said.

Some previous studies have shown weight-loss drugs could lead to regaining weight when people stop using the medication.

A study published in the BMJ in January 2026 showed weight-loss drug users on average regain weight at a rate of 0.4 kilograms or 0.88 pounds per month after they stop. That study reviewed 63 trials covering more than 9,000 individuals up to February 2025.

Patients who went on the drugs then stopped them regained their entire baseline weight on average about 20 months after they stopped taking the medications.

Labos noted the Lancet study further underscores these are chronic medications for chronic conditions and should only be stopped due to issues such as side effects or ineffectiveness.

“If you’re stopping them just because you think they’ve worked and now you want to stop, number one, you are probably going to see a regain of the weight,” he said. “Number two, you’re putting yourself to an increased risk because you no longer are having the metabolic benefits that are coming from the weight loss and the cardiovascular protection that goes with it.”

The Lancet study says it only included a small group of semaglutide users, with most patients using liraglutide or dulaglutide: all of which are types of GLP-1 medications.

Tirzepatide, also known as Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes users and Zepbound for weight loss, was released after the period of the study and was not included.

Type 2 diabetes patients who stopped GLP-1 treatment found their weight, blood sugar concentrations and blood pressure changed “only modestly,” the study says. Similar amounts were seen in patients whether they went on to have a heart attack, stroke, or died.

Researchers also cautioned the heightened risk of heart attack, stroke or death if you stop taking GLP-1s may not affect people without type 2 diabetes who take the drugs for weight loss or other conditions.

Further research is needed into whether stopping GLP-1 medications can directly cause increased cardiovascular risk or if it instead represents “a marker of higher underlying risk rather than a direct cause of adverse outcomes,” the study says.

The study should not be taken to imply the drugs are dangerous, instead Labos said people should understand it outlines how the GLP-1 medications should be taken.

“If the interpretation that you draw from this is that, oh, these medications are potentially dangerous I think that’s the wrong interpretation,” he said. “If the interpretation you draw from this is that you shouldn’t just be starting and stopping these medications on a whim, I think that’s the correct interpretation.”

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The average rate of intimate partner violence (IPV) across the country has risen for the eighth straight year, according to Statistics Canada, following a surge of what some experts are calling “anti-feminist backlash.”

Data released by the agency on Tuesday shows the average rate of police-reported intimate partner violence was two per cent higher in 2025 compared to 2024. The most recent numbers were up 15 per cent from 2018.

“We know things like IPV are chronically under-reported, so I’m not surprised that the numbers are rising,” said Kaitlynn Mendes, interim director of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University.

She said movements like #MeToo and an increase in community support have sparked an increase in the number of victims coming forward. A greater understanding of what constitutes intimate partner violence, which Mendes said can include anything between physical, psychological, emotional or financial violence, could also be sparking this rise.

While it is hard to pinpoint whether the increases come from a rise in instances of violence or if the increased numbers represent more people coming forward to file police reports, Mendes said she wouldn’t be surprised if the increase reflects more cases, not just better reporting.

“We’re in this anti-feminist backlash, I would say. We have these influencers who are really promoting things like aggressiveness: ‘if you want to show that you’re like a real man, you do that by being really aggressive, being dominant,’” she said.

“I think that the numbers that we see from Statistics Canada, we should regard as the floor, not the ceiling,” she added. “It’s an underestimation.”

A rise in reports of intimate partner violence could also be linked to the ongoing socioeconomic climate, said Alexa Yakubovich, an associate professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at Dalhousie University.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic turmoil that followed created a “collision of factors” including inadequate housing, food insecurity, economic insecurity and unemployment, she said.

“All of that together increases the risk for intimate partner violence,” she added.

Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Saskatchewan saw the rate drop between 2024 and 2025, but all saw a sizable increase over the eight-year period.

Records of intimate partner violence in 2025 were highest in the territories with rates three to 19 times higher than the national average. Rates in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were nearly two times the national average.

Mendes said one reason for these higher rates could be the number of communities that operate in isolation. Many remote communities do not have the same access to social supports, she said.

“There is also the issue of privacy in terms of it can be easier to commit because there aren’t potentially as many witnesses,” she added.

According to Statistics Canada, one in six Indigenous women have experienced at least one form of intimate partner violence. While Indigenous women account for just five percent of all women in Canada, federal data shows they made up approximately 26 per cent of all women killed by an intimate partner in 2022.

Yakubovich said while rural and remote communities have higher risk factors for bearing the brunt of violence, indicators for a wide range of gender-based violence are evident all across the country.

Nova Scotia was the first province to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in 2024. New Brunswick followed suit in 2025 and Newfoundland and Labrador labelled it an epidemic in May.

There have been repeated calls in Ontario to make the same declaration.

But Yakubovich said a declaration alone will do nothing to stop epidemic levels of violence.

She said a declaration of an epidemic needs to come with funding “elevated to epidemic proportions” for community support services as well as the healthcare system.

“The most common formal service that is accessed by victims before they are killed is healthcare, whether we’re looking at mental health, hospitals, primary care, et cetera. So the health system plays a really important identification point that we might not ever have the opportunity to utilize otherwise,” she said. “So we need healthcare providers to be aware of the red flags for intimate partner violence.”

Mendes said there also needs to be greater awareness and education at the community level so people are not afraid to access help.

“Taking it seriously, I think that is the first step,” she said. “And then really trying to resist these narratives that are really prominent on social media about how women lie.”

“Because again, we know that there’s often shame, there’s stigma, there are real barriers to reaching out for help. And educating the community to help spot some signs and to be an upstander and to call it out, to break past those things.”

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An SUV crashed into people outside a metro station in Los Angeles during rush hour on Tuesday, killing three and critically injuring the driver and at least two others, police said.

The vehicle ended up under a food vendor’s tent after crashing at a busy intersection just before 6 p.m. in the North Hollywood neighbourhood.

“On November 10th, 2026, around 5:55 p.m., a white Toyota Sienna was traveling southbound Lankershim Boulevard, south of Chandler Boulevard at an unsafe speed when it veered to the right, ran off the road, and collided with a tri-light, hitting several pedestraians and food vendors who were on the sidewalk near the metro station,” the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said in a news release.

The force of the collision caused the pedestrians and private property to be thrown in different directions, according to the LAPD.

“The Toyota driver remained trapped inside his vehicle until paramedics and police arrived. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded and pronounced three female victims deceased at the scene,” police added.

The victims, between the ages of 40 and 60 years old, have not been identified pending notification of their next of kin by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.

“Two additional female victims, both Hispanic and between 50 and 55 years old, were transported to a local hospital in critical condition,” police added.

The driver of the Toyota Sienna suffered minor injuries and was determined to be under the influence, according to the LAPD.

The driver, who has been identified as Thor Demianenko, 61, was transported to a local hospital for treatment.

Demianenko was later arrested for three counts of murder. He is being held on US$6 million bail.

“Drivers are reminded to drive at a safe speed, especially around crowded areas, and not to DRINK AND DRIVE, have a designated driver if you intend to consume an alcoholic beverage,” the LAPD said in a statement. “Drinking and driving combined with speed kills innocent lives and carries serious consequences.

“We don’t know if it was done intentionally, if it was done by accident,” Los Angeles Police Capt. Warner Castillo said during a news conference.

Investigators will go through video of the crash frame by frame, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said.

“It will be probably a prolonged but a very deliberate investigation to determine what happened here,” he added.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she is “heartbroken for the families of everyone impacted” by the crash.

“Today, an SUV drove onto a sidewalk near the North Hollywood Metro Station, striking a group of street vendors and pedestrians. Tragically, preliminary reports indicate that three people have lost their lives and others have been injured,” Bass wrote in a post on X.

“First responders are on the scene, and my office is closely coordinating with City departments as authorities work to determine what caused this horrific incident,” she added.

https://x.com/MayorOfLA/status/2120360389624189264

The investigation into the crash remains ongoing.

—With files from The Associated Press

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