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Good. Smaller regions need news too, mostly the ones served almost only by American investors (New Brunswick, for example)
The expansion doesn’t include anything east of Quebec, so New Brunswick isn’t getting any new reporters.
Maybe if we combined more investment and infrastructure like this for smaller and more remote communities, while promoting more remote work opportunities and scrapping pointless back-to-office mandates, we could start to make housing not just more affordable, but also allow people to live in housing they actually want to live in, detached homes with yards and communities, not shoebox condos in a sea of other anonymous humans. Small towns and villages need a renaissance, and unlike many places we have the the luxury of having more than enough land to be able to do that without being forced into a single-minded pursuit of urbanism.
There’s nothing wrong with urbanism and city life, but it should be a choice based on preference, not a choice that economics increasingly forces of people into against their will because they can only get jobs where they have to commute and work downtown for no reason or because they can’t afford any other style of living.
A nice surprise.
Very pleased with this news. Also interesting that they focused these fairly close together in an underserved region, rather than sprinkling them evenly across the country. I feel this could be a good strategy to ensure these new reporters are well-supported to thrive rather than being isolated. Assuming the success of this initiative, I hope that can do it again in a year or two, choosing another underserved region.
Interesting that the expansion excludes the Atlantic provinces. Presumably the bulk of population growth has hit the western provinces, so I guess that’s cool?
Yeah, I don’t know if they’re focusing on more geographically spread-out areas, or what.
Not suggesting that those provinces are undeserving of coverage, but speaking as someone out of Regina, Sask, we are genuinely starved for real local journalism out here. Often times, if you want local news to Regina, you might have to check a junk unit rental company’s Facebook. (this is not a joke, Just Bins is genuinely one of the only sources of local news here because real publications keep shuttering. they’re also incredibly racist and transphobic, so that really sucks for us that they’re all we really got.)
I know none of these added journalists are for Regina, but if we’re doing this bad, the grids are doing way worse.
This is what CBC should be doing. They should really invest more in small local communities that is very underserved these days.
Even for international level news people would benefit from a vantage of how it impacts them on a local level.
