Mamakwa Family Calls for Reform, OSAP Probe Widens & Stelco Scrutiny — Ottawa Tuesday

🚨 Crime & Public Safety

1. Former MLB player Richard Butler and his wife charged in alleged $60,000 youth-baseball fraud. Durham Regional Police say about $60,000 was deposited into an Ontario Devil Rays account between April 1 and Oct. 31, 2025, and Richard Butler, 53, and Michelle Butler, 52, face fraud over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and uttering a forged document.
2. Canadian tourist Mitchell Fairbarn convicted of animal cruelty for stealing Las Vegas flamingo ‘Peachy’. A Nevada court found Fairbarn, 34, guilty after security footage showed him remove the 27-year-old Chilean flamingo on March 3, and veterinarians documented seven to eight missing feathers and blood loss requiring weeks of treatment.

💼 Economy & Business

1. Ontario public-sector unions push for AI safeguards at bargaining tables covering more than 500,000 workers. OPSEU (200,000+ members) and CUPE (nearly 310,000 members) are introducing AI language in multiple negotiations and issuing bargaining guides to protect jobs, monitor use and limit surveillance, the unions said.
2. Cleveland-Cliffs posts US$612 million Q3 profit as federal government readies legal challenge over Stelco layoffs. Cleveland-Cliffs reported US$612 million net earnings in Q3 while Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Ottawa has “hired the best lawyers” and is working with unions to examine potential breaches of a 2024 jobs agreement.

🏛️ Government & Politics

1. Ontario launches in-person inspections at eight private career colleges amid province-wide OSAP suspension for 242 schools. Inspectors visited eight unnamed colleges after the province barred all 242 private career colleges from OSAP access pending audits that flagged co-ownership with immigration services, unverifiable enrolments, and concentrated application locations, with findings referred to the OPP.
2. Mother of Miranda Mamakwa calls for reform after 31-year-old died following missed medical travel for Ottawa Heart Institute follow-ups. Eva Mamakwa said her daughter missed four follow-up appointments after April open-heart surgery and Indigenous Services Canada has been asked for a fact-finding mission while more than a dozen First Nations filed a human-rights complaint over medical-travel delivery failures.

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• (Duplicate covered) Former MLB player charged in Ontario youth-baseball fraud (covered above).
• (Duplicate covered) Canadian convicted for stealing Flamingo in Las Vegas (covered above).
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• (Duplicate in list) Redblacks president report (covered above).