2025: The Local Stories You May Have Missed

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Our writers have brought us stories from coast to coast to coast, be they Vancouver council races, New Brunswick health care problems, or remote greenhouses in the Northwest Territories. Many of our local stories resonated far beyond the borders of their communities. Take a look at what’s happening on the ground across the country:

 

The Wine Wars Are Back – and Alberta’s Playing Dirty BY CHRISTINA FRANGOU BC has vino. Alberta wants vino. Why is Danielle Smith making it so hard for them to do business?

Another Premier, Another Power Grab BY TREVOR CORKUM In a Trump-like move, Nova Scotia’s Tim Houston is leveraging trade-war tensions to give his government more control

The Most Toxic Substance on Earth – and the Tiny Town Volunteering to Host It BY WILLIAM LEISS The fraught quest for a safe site to bury nuclear waste

Is Vancouver Fed Up with Its Mayor? BY MAYA ELHAWARY

Ken Sim and his council seem to be focused on a single solution to the housing crisis: more police

First Nations Are Rethinking Education in the Yukon. And It’s Working BY RHIANNON RUSSELL The radical new approach includes year-round classes—with breaks for hunting and fishing

The Generation That Outgrew Quebec Nationalism BY FRANCINE PELLETIER A province obsessed with preserving its culture faces a reckoning with young people who no longer see borders

In a Rare Move, Two Manitoba Hospitals Declared Unsafe for Nurses BY KELLY-ANNE RIESS Staff describe being punched, kicked, and sexually assaulted. The union is discouraging members from the facilities

Potash Companies Are Getting Rich. Saskatchewan, Not So Much BY ERIC CLINE Billions go to shareholders, while the province guts schools, services, and social supports

Wildfires Have Threatened the Existence of This Tiny Northern Town. Here’s How It’s Fighting Back BY PAT KANE A garden and greenhouse in Kakisa could protect the remote Northwest Territories community in emergencies

A Paramedic Shortage Is Putting Lives—and Workers—at Risk BY KUNAL CHAUDHARY Underfunding and political neglect in Northern Ontario are fuelling burnout and high turnover

I Knew My Pregnancy Was Over. Doctors Insisted Otherwise BY FAWN PARKER New Brunswick health care turned my miscarriage into a medical crisis

Churchill Falls Could Make Newfoundland and Labrador Rich—or Break It Again BY TREVOR CORKUM Premier John Hogan is betting the province’s future on a single, unfinished deal with Quebec The post 2025: The Local Stories You May Have Missed first appeared on The Walrus.