Daily News Curation - 2025-12-31
Curated 32 items from disability, accessibility, and social policy sources.
1. Alberta, Quebec referendums likely would fail due to Canadians’ anxiety: pollster
Abacus Data has been studying what it calls the ‘precarity mindset’ in Canada for the last year. 📍 Source Score: 27.60
2. CRA says its owed more than $10B in COVID benefit payments
The CRA says that as of Nov. 30, it had disbursed $83.5 billion in COVID benefits to Canadians, including $45.3 billion for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit 📍 Source Score: 25.00
3. Jobs, economy top voters’ priorities at the end of a turbulent 2025: Nanos poll
<p>A year-end poll from Nanos suggests Canadians will want to see action from the Liberal government on major economic files in the new year.</p>
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Score: 18.00
4. Nardwuar the Human Serviette awestruck as he announces Order of Canada appointment
“I can’t even explain myself, so I can’t imagine how people would explain me.” 📍 Source Score: 14.00
5. How a good old-fashioned boycott got Canada to trade Kentucky bourbon for Canadian whisky
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/cc054d91-7580-4fd0-a06b-152851b06cdf,1767152789918/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C8256%2C4644%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’ A woman pours bourbon from a bottle into a glass on a mirrored bar.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’An employee pours a glass of The Bard’s product in what will be a new production area at The Bard Distillery in Graham, Ky., on Sunday, March 9, 2025.’/><p>The aromatic, spicy and sometimes smoky flavour of a smooth, Kentucky bourbon has been but a memory for consumers in this country ever since the spirit was caught in the crossfire of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war and annexation sabre-rattling. As a result, angry Canadians have united behind a “Buy Canadian” movement that experts say is elevating our own whiskies.</p> 📍 Source Score: 14.00
6. Manitoba Government Supports Winnipeg Police Service Initiatives
📍 Source Score: 15.00
7. 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
8. Team Canada men’s hockey lineup unveiled for 2026 Winter Olympics
Hockey Canada unveiled its 25-player Olympic men’s hockey roster for February’s Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday. 📍 Source Score: 9.50
9. How Ryan Wedding went from Olympian to alleged drug lord wanted by FBI
The FBI, RCMP and U.S. prosecutors say Wedding has grown his criminal enterprise to become the largest supplier of cocaine to Canada, as well as parts of the U.S. 📍 Source Score: 9.50
10. Override or overreach? Canada’s notwithstanding clause
📍 Source Score: 9.50
11. Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think
📍 Source Score: 9.50
12. Some B.C. highways in North Coast reopen after closures due to flooding
DriveBC said Highway 16 has reopened after heavy rains caused flooding in the area, with the main road access to Prince Rupert among the pathways cut off. 📍 Source Score: 7.50
13. Manitoba Justice Reports In-Custody Death
📍 Source Score: 9.00
14. Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel Report Lands with a Whimper
Albertans paid $2 million for gruel this thin? 📍 Source Score: 9.00
15. Craig’s Cookies workers vote to unionize at 5 Toronto stores as franchise expands nationally
<img src=’https://i.cbc.ca/ais/99efc696-9743-4ba1-8f25-69b45ea99786,1767211087641/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C238%2C709%2C398%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29’ alt=’Several stacks of small pink boxes printed with multicoloured hearts and the words ‘Craig’s Cookies’ are shown.’ width=’620’ height=’349’ title=’Boxes of Craig’s Cookies are shown in this photo taken from the company’s public Instagram account. ‘/><p>Nearly 90 employees of Craig’s Cookies have voted to unionize across five shops in Toronto as the Canadian cookie chain expands nationally. </p> 📍 Source Score: 9.00
16. Landfill search for First Nation woman’s remains in Thunder Bay, Ont., comes up empty
<p>After a nearly month-long search of the city’s landfill, Deborah Anishinabie’s family is still seeking closure as an investigation into her homicide in Thunder Bay, Ont., continues. Here’s what we know about the search for the rest of the 42-year-old’s remains, and what First Nation leaders want to see done to address the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two Spirit and gender-diverse people.</p>
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Score: 6.00
17. Manitoba Government Lowers Breast Cancer Screening Age to 45
📍 Source Score: 7.50
18. Alberta government raises the cost of referendum petitions by nearly 5K%
📍 Source Score: 7.50
19. Measles Update #61
📍 Source Score: 4.50
20. Measles Update #58
📍 Source Score: 4.50
21. Province Reminds Manitobans It’s Not Too Late to Act as Flu Season Underway
📍 Source Score: 4.50
22. Measles Update #57
📍 Source Score: 4.50
23. Manitoba Maintains Fiscal Path Even as Climate Change and Trump’s Tariffs Pose Challenges
📍 Source Score: 4.50
24. Canadians among dozens injured in fatal Peru train crash, officials say
A train coming from Machu Picchu collided with a train heading there on Tuesday, according to the company that operates the railway. A rail worker was killed, police say. 📍 Source Score: 4.50
25. Covering news in food and agriculture in 2025
📍 Source Score: 4.50
26. 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
27. Increasing AI use in Canadian courtrooms carries risk of errors, penalties: lawyers
<p>As AI infiltrates more and more aspects of daily life, it is increasingly making its way into the courts and legal system, lawyers say.</p>
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Score: 4.50
28. Transit fares are going up. Why do Canadian cities struggle to keep it affordable?
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Score: 4.50
29. 1 man dead, police still searching for 2 armed men after shooting on northern Sask. First Nation
<p>One man is dead and Saskatchewan RCMP say they are still searching for two armed men after an early morning shooting on Big Island Lake Cree Nation.</p>
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Score: 3.90
30. Community gathers to honour 11-year-old Regina carbon monoxide victim
📍 Source Score: 2.40
31. Final Day! Join The Tyee’s Year-End Builder Drive
Last call to get a 2025 tax receipt for supporting the independent journalism you read here. 📍 Source Score: 3.00
32. COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We’ve Learned
We need cleaner air, which requires changes in medical culture. 📍 Source Score: 1.00