Broadview’s top 10 stories of 2025

Audience interest isn’t the only way we measure success at Broadview, but it is certainly an important factor.

We pay close attention to what you like reading, as measured by digital page views, and thought you’d be interested too. Here are your top 10 stories of 2025.

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10. Canada is losing its churches. Can communities afford to let that happen?

The Canadian Urban Institute released a report earlier this year that explored not only the rapid, ongoing closure of churches in this country but also just how much communities lose when they do. This isn’t the first piece of research that looks at faith communities’ impact on their surrounding neighbourhoods, but the CUI report also explores solutions to church closures. Clearly, many of you care about this issue.

You can read the story here.

9. Should Canada’s religious charities lose tax status? Readers weigh in

A December 2024 House of Commons finance committee recommendation drew ire from people of faith across Canada over the possibility that the charitable status of faith-driven non-profits, along with their tax exemptions, could be revoked. In the fall, the office of House of Commons finance committee chair, Liberal MP Karina Gould, confirmed that there are no plans to remove religion as a charitable purpose from the federal income tax act. But earlier this year, it caused a big stir across the country, including among our readers.

You can read your responses to the concept here.

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