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Affordability and health care topped the list of Canadians’ top issues in 2025, while the decline of the Canada–U.S. relationship dominated the year’s biggest news stories for Canadians, according to new polling conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Global News. “Affordability ranked number one on the issues Canadians focused most on this past year, overwhelmingly,” Ipsos Public Affairs CEO Darrell Bricker told Global in an interview, followed closely by health care, “and not because Canadians are happy about it,” he said.Forty-one per cent of those polled said affordability and the cost of living were the most important issue in Canada, followed by health care at 38 per cent. 26:47 Poilievre says hi...

The national RCMP union is criticizing what it calls a “misleading” Alberta government panel report that urges Premier Danielle Smith’s government to continue steps to ditch the Mounties. Brian Sauvé, the head of the National Police Federation, says the Alberta Next panel is trying to revive a proposal that has already been rejected by Albertans.And he says the panel’s report is using outdated references and inaccurate federal policy to justify its stance.The Alberta Next Panel was created and led by Smith to gauge public feedback on how to reset the relationship with the federal government.The panel held surveys and in-person town hall meetings this year, and just before Christmas issued its recommendations. 2:09 ...