Daily News Curation - 2025-12-14
Curated 9 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. ‘It’s really sad’: B.C. community still reeling 1 year after fatal landslide in Lions Bay
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/be55b2ab-6d61-4eeb-a623-67fc1a138deb,1765668012637/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A couple sits beside each other smiling ‘ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Close family friend Tanya Cosgrave said she’ll forever miss having meals and conversation at Barbara and David Enns dinner table’/><p>It’s been a year since Barbara and David Enns died after a landslide destroyed their home in the Village of Lions Bay. An RCMP investigation into the slide is ongoing, and the Enns’ children and two neighbours have filed a lawsuit against the province, the municipality and another neighbour.</p> 📍 Source Score: 14.50
2. B.C. government looks to offer loan guarantees to property owners in Cowichan Aboriginal title area
<p>British Columbia’s premier says his government is working on a plan to underwrite mortgages and loans for property owners and businesses in the Cowichan Aboriginal title area.</p>
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Score: 11.80
3. Children’s Aid Society knew women zip-tied boys into pyjamas but didn’t intervene, Ontario murder trial told
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/82e9357b-5d8c-4a71-90a7-8f6b151746c7,1765572510325/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’two smiling women with tennis rackets with a boy’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Brandy Cooney, centre, with J.L., left, and Cooney’s wife Becky Hamber. CBC has blurred the boy’s face to protect his identity as required by a publication ban. ‘/><p>A Halton Children’s Aid Society worker advised the Burlington, Ont., couple not to zip-tie the two brothers in their care into tents overnight, which the Crown has argued the women continued to do, the two women’s murder trial in Milton has been told. </p> 📍 Source Score: 13.50
4. Winter storms, rain and snow wallopping Canada. Here’s where you’ll see it
Heavy snow, rainfall and winter storm warnings are in effect across Canada with up to 40 centimetres of snow possible in some eastern regions. 📍 Source Score: 9.50
5. How Canada’s refugee system has changed since 2015
📍 Source Score: 9.50
6. 4 years after Indigenous woman died in Niagara hospital waiting room, family still waits for coroner’s inquest
<p>Heather Winterstein’s family believes she didn’t receive proper medical assessment or care at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital because of systemic racism and biases. Niagara Health says it’s committed to change.</p>
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Score: 10.00
7. Lawyer says B.C. Mountie should be fired immediately or quit over group-chat remarks
<p>John MacLaughlan says Const. Ian Solven “has severed the employment relationship with the RCMP” with misconduct that “strikes at the core of the RCMP organizational values.”</p>
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Score: 6.80
8. ‘Our Jane’: N.S. Austen fans celebrate her 250th birthday, and her Halifax connection
<p>Literature lovers in the Halifax area have spent the last year joining a global celebration of their favourite author’s big birthday. A new episode of Atlantic Voice explores the enduring appeal — and the outfits — of Jane Austen.</p>
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Score: 4.50
9. Rain warnings return as wet weather hits B.C.’s flood-soaked Fraser Valley
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Score: 1.30