The Pipeline Is Broken: How Canada Lost Its Ability to See Itself
The woman was in her nineties. She had lived in North Frontenac long enough to remember when the roads were still dirt and neighbours settled things at the kitchen table. In the fall of 2025, somebody knocked on her door and told her she was in danger. A proposed battery energy storage facility on township land. They told her about fire, toxic chemicals, what would happen to the lakes. No one brought a document. No one brought a bylaw number or an engineering assessment. They brought fear, left it with her, and moved on to the next house. That is not a story about a battery. It is a story about what happens when the pipeline that connects Canadians to truth is severed at every joint. The cord was cut in August 2023 When Meta blocked all Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram, it detonated the primary channel through which most Canadians encountered journalism. The blockade was…
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