Daily News Curation - 2025-12-04
Curated 29 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Development charges might be adding 8-16% to home prices, CMHC data shows
The development charges can vary greatly from city to city, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report found. 📍 Source Score: 19.90
2. Debates commission looking at changes after ‘perfect storm’ clouded last leaders’ showdown
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/645587a8-0563-4484-a7ea-83b4f3897121,1764869765335/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C781%2C8640%2C4860%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’Four men in suits stand at podiums in a TV studio.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Liberal Leader Mark Carney, left to right, New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet participate in the English-language federal leaders’ debate in Montreal, Thursday, April 17, 2025.’/><p>The head of Canada’s Leaders’ Debates Commission says the independent body should stop organizing post-debate news conferences and will make changes to how it decides what leaders to invite after this spring’s leadership debate was surrounded by controversy.</p> 📍 Source Score: 21.50
3. Manitoba Government Helps Recruit Emergency Medical Responders in Rural Manitoba with Financial Aid, New Community Training
📍 Source Score: 20.50
4. Manitoba Government Invites Applications for Two Community Development Grant Programs
📍 Source Score: 19.50
5. Governments of Canada and Manitoba Invest $12.5 Million to Address Gender-Based Violence
📍 Source Score: 17.00
6. Brett Gallant, doing curling double duty at Olympics, will provide valuable insight to Canada’s teams
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/0ebc7d40-6f3c-4249-91a7-ec0702f4bdde,1764863480057/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%2820%2C0%2C1139%2C640%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’Brett Gallant sweeps as Jocelyn Peterman releases a rock in the gold-medal game at the Canadian mixed doubles curling championships in Fredericton, New Brunswick on March 24, 2019.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Brett Gallant and partner Jocelyn Peterman will open the Olympic mixed doubles curling tournament Feb. 4, one week before Gallant joins his Canadian men’s team skipped by Brad Jacobs for their first match a week later in Italy. ‘/><p>Besides giving curlers two Olympic medal chances, doing double duty provides teams valuable insight into the ice, rocks and conditions in game scenarios.</p> 📍 Source Score: 16.20
7. Canada’s net-zero advisory process ‘performative,’ says co-chair in resignation
In a post on his LinkedIn account, Simon Donner says he resigned on Tuesday and he is grateful for the opportunity to help shape climate policy in Canada. 📍 Source Score: 11.50
8. Windsor housing non-profit director fired after allegations of $500k in unauthorized pay hikes for family
<p>Court documents filed by LSCDG obtained by CBC News show accusations of financial misconduct totalling $3 million by the Labour Sponsored Community Development Group’s former executive director Anna Angelidis and two administrators she supervised: her sons Jim and Danny.</p>
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Score: 14.00
9. Food prices could increase in 2026, with meat leading the way, say Dalhousie researchers
<p>Food prices in Canada could increase by four to six per cent next year, largely led by pricier meat products, according to a forecast by researchers at Dalhousie University.</p>
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Score: 10.70
10. Alberta Health Services CEO on leave of absence, province confirms
📍 Source Score: 13.50
11. Manitoba Government’s Universal School Food Program Fed Nearly Half of Students Across the Province
📍 Source Score: 12.00
12. Ranking Four Winds’ Pils Pack, which features some of Canada’s best breweries
The pack includes drinks from breweries across the country. 📍 Source Score: 9.50
13. A Canadian Company Is Supplying Armoured Cars to ICE
The Canadian government should consider companies’ complicity in US human rights violations when sourcing contracts. 📍 Source Score: 10.50
14. Manitoba Government will use Proceeds from U.S. Liquor Sales to Support Holiday Charities
📍 Source Score: 10.50
15. Toronto police ask for public’s help after targeted home invasion, kidnapping
A targeted home invasion and kidnapping led to a gunpoint standoff with police and an overnight chase across Toronto. Two suspects remain at large, investigators say. 📍 Source Score: 9.00
16. More people are using food banks as inflation grows, Manitoba report says
A new report from a Manitoba food bank network says the number of people needing help is rising as the cost of living continues to escalate. 📍 Source Score: 9.00
17. Manitoba Government Honours Lives Lost to Gender-Based Violence
📍 Source Score: 7.50
18. Manitoba Government Improves Asbestos Safety Requirements to Protect Workers
📍 Source Score: 7.50
19. NS Power dismisses premier’s claim that utility could be breaking regulatory laws
Nova Scotia’s largest utility is responding to a stinging letter from Premier Tim Houston by insisting it hasn’t broken any laws. 📍 Source Score: 5.30
20. Indigenous friendship centres want clarity on future federal funding
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.7510746,1744735835000/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%284%2C0%2C1908%2C1073%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A Mi’kmaw woman with long dark hair wears a beige turtleneck under a brown leather jacket. She is standing in a room with pieces of Mi’kmaw art on the walls behind her’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Pam Glode-Desrochers, executive director of the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Society, at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax.’/><p>The president for the National Association of Friendship Centres says uncertainty around how much money they will have to work with next year is raising alarms for the centres that provide services for Indigenous people in urban areas.</p> 📍 Source Score: 7.50
21. Community ground search for Eli Wood happening in Kitchener on Sunday
📍 Source Score: 7.50
22. Nova Scotia justice minister wants Mi’kmaw chiefs to help crack down on illegal cannabis
The Nova Scotia government is cracking down on illegal cannabis dispensaries, which it says outnumber legal NSLC stores in the province. 📍 Source Score: 4.30
23. Children’s hospitals seeing more flu cases as earlier season takes a toll
Flu season has arrived early, with CHEO reporting eight times more cases than last year as hospitals warn of rising infections among children and seniors. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
24. Quebec unions are standing up against CAQ’s Law 14
📍 Source Score: 4.50
25. Photos: Belfast electronic duo Chalk light up the Fox Cabaret
The Irish duo made the most of their only Canadian tour stop. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
26. Why We Need New Stories of Fire and Ice
What happens when scientists and artists meet to confront humanity’s melting future? A letter from Banff. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
27. Josh Naylor, who starred after trade to Mariners, named top Canadian in MLB for 2025
<p>Seattle Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor of Mississauga, Ont., has won the 2025 Tip O’Neill Award, presented annually by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame to the top Canadian player in Major League Baseball.</p>
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Score: 4.50
28. Manitoba to sell shelved U.S. booze with revenue going to holiday charities: premier
<p>Manitoba is pulling out hundreds of thousands of dollars of U.S.-made alcohol it shelved months ago amid the tumultuous trade war with the U.S., with plans of now selling the liquor ahead of Christmas and sending the proceeds to holiday charities.</p>
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Score: 4.50
29. Man who killed attacker in Banff used ‘excessive’ force, sentenced to 2-year house arrest
<p>After learning the man who killed their loved one would not go to jail, several of Ryden Brogden’s family members stormed out of the courtroom. On Wednesday, a judge announced John Sproule would serve a conditional sentence order involving two years of house arrest. </p>
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Score: 1.20