These ones may have been under-read when they were first published— but they’re worth reading now. As the new year approaches, here are six stories you should dig into from 2025. Her school teaching young women English, vocational skills and activities such as painting, are forbidden by the Taliban. Read more by Adrian HumphreysThe Alaskan Air Identification Zone extends 150 miles from U.S. territorial airspace and into Canada’s airspace in the North. According to the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad), this is a regular occurrence.

WATCH | Kentucky bourbon makers caught in the crossfire after Trump's 51st state jabs: Kentucky bourbon makers getting hate mail from Canada | Duration 5:35 Retaliatory tariffs are hitting Kentucky bourbon hard, and the governor has implored Canadian leaders to reconsider. WATCH | Bourbon back on store shelves in Nova Scotia: Bourbon whisky among top-selling U.S. alcohol back on N.S. Davin De Kergommeaux, author of Canadian Whisky: The Essential Portable Expert, discusses the impact U.S. products are having on Canadian whisky. "Although we can't call this baby bourbon," he said, holding up a bottle, which is labelled Kentucky whisky, "it is actually a five-year Kentucky bourbon bottled here in Canada." But that doesn't mean he's not looking forward to cracking open his own bottle of Maverick's Kentucky whisky at some point soon.

Ringing in 2026 around the worldNewsDuration 1:00People around the world bid farewell to 2025 and celebrated the start of 2026 with elaborate firework displays and musical performances, from Sydney, Australia, to Beijing and Nairobi.

Seven Canadians are among dozens injured after two trains collided head-on in Peru on Tuesday, Global Affairs Canada confirmed. The collision took place on the railway leading to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Global Affairs Canada is aware of Canadian citizens injured in Peru. 'Canada stands by the people of Peru': AnandForeign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she was deeply saddened to hear about the crash. Canada stands by the people of Peru and extend our sympathies to all those affected, Anand wrote on X.

CBC Manitoba was proud to sponsor the release of Her (204): Stories of One Great City Revisited. (Darren Bernhardt/CBC)In April, CBC Manitoba was on site all day at Fort Whyte Alive to celebrate Earth Day. (Prabhjot Singh Lotey/CBC)Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementOn Canada Day, CBC Manitoba celebrated all things Canada at The Forks in Winnipeg. AugustChristopher Gareau joined CBC Manitoba as a reporter based in Steinbach in September. Happy new year from CBC Manitoba!

Can an all-night New Year’s party help this Montreal street attract a new generation of revellers? NewsDuration 2:21Two dozen businesses on St-Laurent Boulevard will ring in 2026 until 8 a.m. in a bid to attract new people to the artery.

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More than tariffs, Trump, wars, Carney, inflation, the central bank or fiscal policy,Worry about what you can change. The point is that 18 years ago – or whenever you stumbled in here, blinking and traumatized – you had choices. Dogs can’t change the world, but they still find peace, love and contentment in it. The photo was taken by a soccer dad, Mick from Australia, who was trying out his new telephoto at his daughter’s soccer game. Keep up the always-appreciated stellar work!”To be in touch or send a picture of your beast, email to ‘[email protected]’.

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So enamoured with this marvel of communication was I that for my third birthday, I asked for and received a toy version of our family’s rotary dial phone. The short-lived Calgary hangout’s calling card was a landline phone at each table where you rang up your fellow diners, a kind of analog version of today’s dating apps. They may have seen a rotary dial phone on the hit TV series Stranger Things , but might be stumped by how to operate one. In other words, even if you still covet your landline phone, it won’t be the same, ever again. Growing social anxietySpeaking of Gen Alpha, most wouldn’t know how to operate a rotary dial phone if their lives depended on it.

Children's singer Raffi among 80 appointments to the Order of CanadaNewsDuration 2:43Iconic children's entertainer Raffi is among the 80 people appointed to the Order of Canada Wednesday. Although he was first invested as a member of the order in 1983, he's now being promoted to companion.

On Saturday, December 13, Margaret Atwood came to Edmonton for “Margaret Atwood in Conversation with Tara McCarthy” to talk about her memoir, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts. Atwood added Edmonton to her tour last minute after her book, The Handmaid’s Tale, was set to be pulled from Edmonton Public School’s library book shelves. The event was hosted by Audrey’s Books, a local book store, and moderated by Tara McCarthy from CBC Radio. When she published her first book in Edmonton in 1969, The Edible Woman, she received push back from many male interviewers. Her most popular book, The Handmaid’s Tale, was based on a dystopian Christian theocracy.

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Ontario’s solicitor general wants the Toronto Police Service to urgently step up its enforcement of “hate, intimidation and harassment-motivated offences” plaguing the city. He is the York Centre Member of Provincial Parliament, the highest-ranking Jewish member of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government. While not mentioned by Kerzner, Jewish residents of two buildings in the Bathurst area had their mezuzahs — Hebrew prayer scrolls affixed to doorways — stolen or vandalized in December. Earlier in the month, about 200 anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Meridian Hall to oppose a debate featuring former Israeli officials. Groups that organized the protest called the Israelis “war criminals” and were upset that they were given a platform.