Vancouver Civic Election 2026

[MalcolmTucker]

There is also, 20 years ago the city section could be 10 pages of city articles. Now we're lucky to get content to fill two pages.

So the threshold of what gets reported is much higher.

[SFUVancouver]

^ 20 years ago there were a lot more publications publishing city news articles, too.

[Migrant_Coconut]

Reputable journalism does have a lot less funding than it used to, fair point.

That said, I'd hesitate to call the Post or Tyee "mainstream" - they're a bit more yellow, while CBC, CTV, Global, et al usually keep the spin to 25% or less.