I can get weather from satellites, traffic from platforms, local crime from social media, regulatory changes from professionals and blogs, and markets from market data. So long as we can get news from outside the country, news within Canada doesn't matter because it's all state narrative anyway. For an increasing number of people, mainstream news outlets offer nothing of value.

Just today I ran into a random hiker in the woods and the conversation turned immediately to political corruption and how the media won't touch it. The govt in Canada likely wants the internet and news restrained, as they need to pull some things and probably don't want the news to foment popular cross border support again. Sure, link tax, whatever, there is no expectation the media or government are anything but hollow facades for some minority interests that have captured them. The popular mood talking to people in the street is very dark.