It's that time of the week, where we stroll around OpenFile to highlight some of the good work our reporters and bloggers did recently.

In Ottawa, a local microbrew was paying homeless youth to deliver its beer to customers' homes. Not so fast, said some entrenched brewer: it's illegal to deliver beer or liquor to someone's home in Ontario—unless said spirit is first bought at the Beer Store or LCBO. We won't know who tattled unless Beau's Beer, the microbrew in question, files an appeal.

In Montreal, one of the hot issues this week was anglophones who refuse to learn French, after Sherwin Tjia told CBC's Daybreak that he had no interest in learning French despite living in Quebec. Like Toronto, Montreal's Occupy protest was shut down this week, and OpenFile looked at whether electronics shops are deceiving their customers.

In Calgary, OpenFile is following the story of a local radio station whose contest prize is "upgrading your spouse". With Occupy Calgary shut down as well, one reporter lamented that the argument around Occupy Calgary had descended to tents and poop instead of the city's yawning gap between rich and poor.

Does Vancouver's electoral system discourage voting? One OpenFile writer says yes. At issue is Vancouver's ward-less politics, and the fact that UBC students aren't considered voters. (Odd but true!) Also: is the internet making Vancouver feel lonely?

In Halifax, King's College students debated gender-segregated bathrooms during the week the city also marked Transgender Day of Remembrance. They also had their first big snowfall, with predictable "snowpocalypse" fun, the kind of which probably won't hit Toronto until January.

And speaking of our fair city, OpenFile Toronto had two good stories from reporter Jerry Langton this week about what it's like to work in a soup kitchen, and what happens when the Canada Border Services Agency deports people. Denise Balkissoon also updated us on the Byron Sonne trial. On the blog, we had a bunch of Occupy Toronto coverage, but perhaps the most fun was the incessant yurt humour.

Here's looking at yurts, kids.

Blog photo by the Travelling Bum via Flickr.