A generation shouldn't have to
inherit a country it was never
shown honestly.
Canada has more good independent journalism than at any point in its history, and a young reader has almost no way to find it. The newsrooms are small, scattered across thirteen provinces and territories and two languages, and they are drowned out by whatever an algorithm decided was upsetting this morning.
So we do two things. We carry 39 of those newsrooms on one page, ranked for people under 30. And we hand the technology behind that page to the young journalists who are going to replace us.
Free expression, without an asterisk
We carry newsrooms we disagree with. That isn't neutrality theatre — it's the only arrangement in which a reader can actually think. We label where an outlet stands and let the reader do the rest. We won't drop an outlet for its politics, and we will never ask a member to soften a story to stay on the platform.
The line we do hold: no fabrication, no unnamed claim presented as established fact, no target picked out for harassment. That's craft, not ideology.
We grow journalists, not follower counts
Every serious media company in the country is trying to acquire an audience. We're trying to produce reporters. A member gets a story board, the national feed, and a distribution kit — the working technology of a newsroom, free, on the day they sign up.
2 members and counting. Under-30 is who this was built for.
Your work stays yours
We are not a publisher that owns you. Members publish wherever they want — their own Substack, their own channel, someone else's masthead. We take no rights in the work, no exclusivity, and no editorial control over it. Platform expansion means our technology travels with you, not that your byline belongs to us.
The traffic goes to whoever earned it
Every headline on our feed is the outlet's own words, linking to the outlet's own page. We don't republish articles, we don't lift photography, and we don't wrap anyone's work in our ads. An aggregator that keeps the reader is stealing from the newsroom that did the reporting.
Balance you can audit
The feed fills by round-robin across outlets, so no single newsroom — and no single political lean — can flood the page. The registry is published in full, the outlets we can't technically reach are published too, and the ranking rule is deterministic and readable. A balance claim nobody can check is marketing.
Zero-Contribution Policy
No special-interest money and no political money, ever. We don't take funding from the people our members cover. It's the same standard that governs everything under Sagga & Co., and it's the reason a young reporter can trust that nobody bought the beat they're working.
The newsroom standard — the whole thing
Short on purpose. A standard nobody can recite isn't a standard.
- Report honestly. What you saw, what you were told, and which is which.
- Name your sources — or say plainly why you can't, and what you did to check them anyway.
- Separate what's established from what's alleged. Someone's accusation is not the same object as a finding.
- Correct in public. Same visibility as the mistake. Fast.
- Nothing invented. No fabricated quotes, sources, numbers or scenes. This is the only one with no second chance.
That's it. There is no house position you have to agree with, and no topic you need permission to touch.
Where AI sits, and where it doesn't
Our own desk uses AI presenters for daily explainer segments, and every one of them is labelled AI-presented · human-edited on screen. That's our production, clearly marked.
It stops there. No model decides what appears on the Canadian feed — the ranking is a plain, readable rule based on recency and subject. No model rewrites another newsroom's headline. And nothing publishes without a person approving it.
The tools are free. The standard is the price.
If you report honestly, we want you on the platform — whatever you think about anything else.