Daily News Curation - 2025-12-16
Curated 32 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Threats in the hall, blood on the floor: ‘Trauma Tower’ racks up most police calls in Kingston
<p>A highrise run by the Kingston & Frontenac Housing Corporation is a hotbed for police activity, with hundreds of calls for service this year alone. Officials say changes are coming, but one resident says she still lives in fear.</p>
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Score: 21.20
2. Canada lays sanctions against 4 more senior Iranian officials
The latest round of sanctions has been imposed under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said. 📍 Source Score: 17.00
3. ‘Buy Canadian’ policy comes into effect for federal projects worth over $25M
<p>The federal government’s “Buy Canadian” policy takes effect Tuesday and Ottawa says it will fundamentally change the way it purchases goods and services.</p>
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Score: 20.90
4. Bills pushed through Commons at last minute won’t be studied by Senate until February
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/2f05884c-8193-4eaf-9aca-8e6b12782ab6,1765909440846/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C329%2C3600%2C2025%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’An ornate red chamber’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’The Senate of Canada building and Senate Chamber are pictured in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. The Senate will not resume sitting until June 2 at the earliest. The office of the Speaker of the upper chamber says the decision was taken as part of the Senate’s efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick’/><p>Despite a deal to push government bills through their final stages before the House of Commons rose last Thursday, two pieces of priority budget and border legislation, C-4 and C-12, can’t become law until at least February. </p> 📍 Source Score: 19.60
5. Skate Canada won’t hold events in Alberta, cites new rules on transgender athletes
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Score: 18.50
6. Canadian Jewish group calls for action after threat report warns of possible attacks
Experts said the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney showed the persistence of the ISIS threat. 📍 Source Score: 16.50
7. Skate Canada to stop hosting events in Alberta due to sports gender law
Skate Canada says it is unable to host events in Alberta while maintaining its standards for safety and inclusivity. 📍 Source Score: 14.00
8. New PWHL mentorship program aims to keep girls playing the sport
<p>More than 100 girls in Grades 8 and 9 across Canada and the U.S. will be mentored directly by PWHL players, with the hope of creating belonging and confidence.</p>
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Score: 14.00
9. Boyle Street Community Services’ King Thunderbird Centre officially opens
The facility features cultural spaces that focus on healing and cultural safety and has a community health space, which will provide numerous services for vulnerable Edmontonians. 📍 Source Score: 13.00
10. Family of Ontario man whose 2016 jail death sparked inquest still waiting for apology from province
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Score: 12.90
11. Carney’s Liberals hold narrow lead over Conservatives as 2025 ends: poll
Approval of the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is 15 points ahead of the party overall, according to the new Ipsos poll conducted for Global News. 📍 Source Score: 12.00
12. Manitoba Government Supports Roof Rebuild at Foxwarren District Recreation Centre
📍 Source Score: 10.50
13. Construction to Begin on New Eriksdale Emergency Department in New Year
📍 Source Score: 9.00
14. Manitoba Government Announces Second Round of Funding for Gate Project
📍 Source Score: 7.50
15. Manitoba Government Invests $2.6 Million in Parkland and Westman Municipalities
📍 Source Score: 7.50
16. Alberta’s assault on trans youth has federalism problems the notwithstanding clause can’t avoid
📍 Source Score: 7.50
17. Menorah lighting a chance for this Jewish community in Ontario to ‘feel a togetherness’
<p>Members of the Jewish community in Waterloo, Ont., celebrated the first night of Hanukkah on Sunday by lighting a massive five-metre-high menorah, taking time to also reflect on the fatal shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.</p>
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Score: 7.10
18. Be prepared for the Alberta separatism disinformation campaign
📍 Source Score: 5.50
19. Quebec teachers say they’re targeted by violence, verbal abuse in schools
<p>Teachers across the province are warning of increased violence directed toward them inside classrooms. A major teachers’ union released a survey documenting the trend and is reaching out to the province for help.</p>
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Score: 5.70
20. Measles Update #55
📍 Source Score: 4.50
21. Measles Update #52
📍 Source Score: 4.50
22. Saskatchewan town told not to use water, police investigate tampered reservoir hatch
The town of Outlook, Sask., is under a ‘do not use’ water advisory after a hatch to one of its water reservoirs was tampered with. 📍 Source Score: 3.00
23. Manitoba museum repatriates sacred headdress to Long Plain First Nation
A sacred headdress that belonged to generations of leaders of a First Nation in southern Manitoba is being returned. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
24. Drip by Drip, Poilievre Is Handing Liberals a Majority
Just one seat to go. And it’s likely to happen as the Conservative leader causes the bleeding. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
25. Flu circulating at ‘sky-high’ levels among kids, teens as experts brace for worsening wave of infections
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/d039c24a-c3f8-42d4-b2e2-9d8ec8b9b879,1765853130775/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1280%2C720%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.’/><p></p> 📍 Source Score: 4.50
26. Boy endured years of ‘torture’ while in care of Burlington, Ont., couple, Crown tells murder trial
<p>The 12-year-old boy Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber were trying to adopt was “dangerously” thin for over a year leading up to his 2022 death, Superior Court in Milton, Ont., heard.</p>
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Score: 4.50
27. Canadian teen describes moments after shots rang out in deadly attack in Australia
📍 Source Score: 4.50
28. Christmas miracle? Taco Bell scheduled to open N.L. location in late December
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/c7ffd07c-8cc8-4096-a981-ad0dd0cd2e74,1765839234169/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A purple and white sign with the Taco Bell logo reads ‘The Secret’s Out’’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’’/><p>Taco Bell has been the talk of the town for months. Now, Mount Pearl is getting close to having a new location open. The CBC’s Jenna Head reports.</p> 📍 Source Score: 4.50
29. You Nearly Missed: Molly Grace makes her Vancouver debut at the Fox Cabaret
The Nashville artist is touring in support of her new album, Blush. 📍 Source Score: 3.00
30. Ottawa announces plan to slash methane pollution from fossil fuel production, landfills
<p>The Carney government is making good on a promise to help tackle one of the most potent forms of climate pollution, as it announces new measures to tackle the methane emissions released by landfills and oil and gas facilities.</p>
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Score: 3.00
31. Family wants to see action following inquest into Winnipeg overdose death
In the months leading up to his death, Lee Earnshaw tried to access treatment on five different occasions but was turned away. 📍 Source Score: 1.00
32. An activist guide to Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025
📍 Source Score: 1.00