There was a time, not so long ago, when Canadians of all political stripes, faiths, and geographies would gather around common sources of information, the evening news, the daily paper, the national broadcaster. The facts were never entirely neutral, but the conversation was broadly shared. People lived in the same discursive house, even if they argued in different rooms.

Today, we live in a splintered hall of mirrors. One citizen’s front page is another’s conspiracy thread. The great public square has been replaced by walled gardens, algorithmic rabbit holes, and tribal media bubbles. And in this disarray, something foundational is fraying, not just trust in journalism, but the possibility of democratic conversation itself.

No serious effort to rebuild Canada can ignore the question of

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