As 2025 draws to a close, it's time to take a look back over the year in Kindred Connects news, insights, and advice to see which headlines resonated the most with our readers.
As always, many of the stories that received the most engaged responses from readers were those posts about Kindred staff, our members, and our partners participating in events and helping others in the community. From helping build a Shaputuan (a traditional Indigenous gathering space) at Crow Shield Lodge, and sleeping outdoors for the Coldest Night of the Year, to providing over 6,500 meals to those experiencing hunger, you can read about those community impact activities and more in our year in review.
Celebrating Another Year of Community
Impact at Kindred Credit Union
Along with a high-level of interest in local community engagement, it turns out that international relations, interest rates changes, and household finances were also top of mind this year.
Here are some of our most read stories of 2025
The most popular article from Kindred Credit Union came in February, when our Chief Financial Officer John Klassen offered his thoughts on the growing trade dispute between Canada and the United States.
Navigating Economic Uncertainty:
What the Canada-U.S. Trade Dispute
Means for Your Finances
A close second, with almost as many readers was another news story. With the current real-estate market and continuing economic turmoil on people's minds, a timely piece about the changing interest rates from the BOC captured many readers' attention.
The Bank of Canada Lowered
the Overnight Rate –
Now What?
Our third top news story of the year was also by John Klassen. Our CFO weighed in on the much discussed, but often misunderstood, topic of cryptocurrencies.
What is Cryptocurrency
and how does it work?
Personal finances were also much on the minds of our readers in 2025. Many of our most-read stories that weren't breaking news pieces were related to managing household expenses and saving money for the future. These were our top three finance posts of the year.
15 Ways to Save $5,000:
Simple Steps to Make Peace
with Your Money
(Note: This story came out in May. While it is never too late to start paying attention to where your money goes each month, there isn't a great deal of runway left in 2025 to start seeing immediate results before the calendar changes.)
10 Tips to Improve Your
Financial Health By the End of 2025
And once again, planning and saving for retirement remains a perennial hot topic.
Saving for retirement:
Everything You Need to Know
Other stories of interest that received a lot of attention were about the creation of Kindred's new debit card launched earlier this year and protecting yourself from the latest fraud attempts that scammers are using to try and access your personal information.
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The story behind Kindred's
new debit card
And finally: 
7 Ways to Protect Your Personal Info
and Finances from Phishing, Vishing
and Smishing Scams
Bonus: Our Top Video of the Year
Over on YouTube, our most watched video of 2025 comes from our Ask Us Anything series where Kindred experts tackle your financial questions. The most viewed was about selecting a mutual fund.
Watch it now and consider subscribing to our channel to catch all of our latest posts!
How do you pick the right mutual funds?