🟢 Juno Jump Start: Ottawa wants to decide which news Canadians can ‘trust’

The Carney government is spending taxpayer money on a national local-news directory while Heritage Minister Marc Miller defends state-funded media as a tool against disinformation.

Ottawa builds ‘trusted news’ directory as Miller warns of ‘illegitimate’ media

The Carney government is funding a three-year project to create a national directory of local news outlets Canadians can “trust.”

Canadian Heritage had already spent $100,000 on the project, which is being developed by three universities. The directory will identify “qualified …