I wanted to take a moment to briefly comment on Renfrew’s media landscape.

A moment is all I’ll need since Renfrew has no media landscape.

The newspaper that once was, the Renfrew Mercury, is gone, initially taken over by Metroland then chopped from the roster of their media holdings.  The once/week advertising rag they published also hit the dust, meaning that people lining the bottom of their litter boxes no longer had access to these two august publications.

There is still a sniff of them online, that being the notable Inside Ottawa Valley, which is absolutely awesome if you want to know what’s going down in Smiths Falls, or rather, if you want to know what happened in Smiths Falls two weeks ago.

And then there’s the radio station masquerading as a platform for legitimate journalism, with their blink-of-an-eye coverage of anything and nothing at the same time, but every hour on the hour, so that we don’t have to hold our breath long before being disappointed by the dearth of coverage this place provides. 

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