In August, I got into a conversation with a 20-something woman at a physiotherapy clinic, both of us aware our brief encounter would end the moment one of us got called to the gym.

We started with the weather, then drifted toward the news. The Alberta byelection was imminent and my waiting-room friend expressed frustration some of the information in her Instagram feed didn’t align with the facts she gleaned from TikTok. She was still sorting through the contradictions.

“If only there was an unbiased news organization with good writers and editors who checked all the facts, something reliable, you know?” she said.

Her physiotherapist rounded the corner and summoned her to her session before I could mount my high horse and deliver a boomer-ish response about how social media and artificia

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