

News outlets are dying across Canada. More than 330 local outlets in hundreds of communities have shut since 2008, a death rapidly escalated by COVID-19. Each time a radio or TV station, newspaper, or online site closes, important untold stories are lost, erasing the history, current events, and local lore in small-town Canada. Join host Haydn Watters in Tilbury, Ont., where the weekly paper shut down after 136 years.