Daily News Curation - 2025-12-30
Curated 20 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Winter storms to continue hammering parts of Ontario, Quebec
Much of Canada has been blasted with a number of weather systems over the last week, ranging from blizzards and cold snaps to freezing rain. 📍 Source Score: 18.50
2. Manitoba Government Supports Winnipeg Police Service Initiatives
📍 Source Score: 15.00
3. Is Trans Mountain’s Profitability an Accounting Illusion?
How the finances of Canada’s government-owned pipeline may look better than they are. 📍 Source Score: 12.50
4. Override or overreach? Canada’s notwithstanding clause
📍 Source Score: 9.50
5. Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
📍 Source Score: 9.50
6. Manitoba Justice Reports In-Custody Death
📍 Source Score: 9.00
7. Quebec couple found dead while on vacation in Dominican Republic
The couple’s daughter, Sabrina Noël, announced the death of her parents and asked for time ‘in order to experience this grief privately.’ 📍 Source Score: 8.40
8. Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel Report Lands with a Whimper
Albertans paid $2 million for gruel this thin? 📍 Source Score: 9.00
9. N.B. Premier Susan Holt doesn’t know why no one knew how to cut gas price sooner
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/f9c8fc4b-f767-43f3-ae3a-ec1c88f77748,1766088835731/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A blond woman sits in front of a Christmas tree wearing a dark green blazer.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Premier Susan Holt isn’t sure why the approach her government ultimately used to adjust gasoline prices went unnoticed for so long.’/><p>Premier says the oversight meant New Brunswickers paid too much for gas during the past few years, as a cheaper form of gasoline became more widely used.</p> 📍 Source Score: 8.50
10. Manitoba Government Lowers Breast Cancer Screening Age to 45
📍 Source Score: 7.50
11. Toronto hate crime suspect denied refugee status in 2018
The case of Osman Azizov could raise new questions for the government about public safety. 📍 Source Score: 6.90
12. Alberta government raises the cost of referendum petitions by nearly 5K%
📍 Source Score: 7.50
13. Measles Update #58
📍 Source Score: 4.50
14. Province Reminds Manitobans It’s Not Too Late to Act as Flu Season Underway
📍 Source Score: 4.50
15. Measles Update #57
📍 Source Score: 4.50
16. Manitoba Maintains Fiscal Path Even as Climate Change and Trump’s Tariffs Pose Challenges
📍 Source Score: 4.50
17. Here are the new laws and rules for Ontario starting in the new year
From increased impaired driving fines to more Vitamin D in your dairy, here’s a look at some of the most significant changes taking effect in 2026. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
18. Covering news in food and agriculture in 2025
📍 Source Score: 4.50
19. A Year of Health Science Under Siege
When leaders mirror Stalin by promoting false dogma, we must defend evidence-based reason. Lives depend on it. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
20. Courthouse canines help ease the tension, one tail wag at a time
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/6953687a-617e-46e5-9657-5152e29c2764,1766172064252/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%284%2C0%2C1669%2C938%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’A golden retriever dog on the floor’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Crush is a golden retriever who volunteers with ‘Just Paws’ ‘/><p>Therapy dogs and their volunteer handlers from Just Paws are a welcome presence at the Ottawa Courthouse, where the stress can be hard to handle alone.</p> 📍 Source Score: 1.00