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🚨TorontoToday.ca is live! Village Media’s newest hyperlocal news site serves the downtown neighbourhoods of Canada’s largest city. Check it out ⤵️

The launch of SPACES is nearing and our ambitious mission for the platform is already resonating with many. Read a bit about SPACES in the article below. "While much of the rest of the industry stares into the financial abyss created when the Online News Act pushed Meta into banning news links, Jeff Elgie’s Village Media team decided to create its own social media platform. It’s called SPACES and according to its website it will revive “the lost art of community engagement … SPACES aims to strengthen the bonds between neighbours, reignite local passions, and rebuild the trust that has been eroded by impersonal and divisive platforms.”

We have some big news — and the launch of TorontoToday is only the beginning! We are thrilled to announce we are bolstering our legislative coverage with the acquisition of Queen’s Park Today, the province’s premier political newsletter, and Parliament Today, its federal twin. The deal, which closed Oct. 1, will expand our existing roster of award-winning journalists at the Ontario Legislature and create Village Media’s first-ever bureau on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Read more about this acquisition and more exciting expansion news, below. #VillageMedia #QueensParkToday #ParliamentToday #ONPol #CanPol #TorontoToday #Toronto #Ottawa #SPACES

Our September Bulletin shares more details on two HUGE launches happening in the coming weeks. October is going to be a big month for Village Media 🎊 Check it out ⤵

Toronto - here we come! 🎊 August brought with it an exciting new site announcement, an incredible show of community support for a reader fundraiser initiative and sponsorship support in over a dozen cities in Ontario. Read more in this month's Village Bulletin 👀 #localnews #VillageMedia #Toronto #TorontoToday https://lnkd.in/g7gqqNTX

Our annual Reader Favourites program is now open for voting in 14 communities in Ontario 💛, we're getting closer to a Spaces launch 🚀 and we supported fun-filled events in a dozen cities this month 🎉 Read more in our July newsletter ⤵️

TimminsToday turned 10 🥳, we wrapped up the 2024 Community Builders Awards in Orillia, North Bay and Guelph and we sponsored over two dozen community organizations and events - all in June! Read more in this month's Village Bulletin ⤵️

In May, we welcomed AuroraToday to our Village network, raised over $31,000 for local Alzheimer Society chapters across our communities and sponsored 18 community organizations and events 🫶 Read more about our May initiatives in our latest Village Bulletin ⤵️

Welcome to AuroraToday.ca! We have officially launched our 25th owned-and-operated local news outlet in Ontario. The local AuroraToday team is already delivering on its mission to cover the stories that matter most: the ones right in your neighbourhood. Learn more about AuroraToday below ⤵️

Our incredible journalists have been named finalists for the upcoming Canadian Journalism Foundation Jackman Awards for Excellence in Journalism and the Digitial Publishing Awards in the Best Data Journalism Category. 👏 Village Media was also recently named a winner of one of this year's Local Media Association Digital Innovation Awards for our custom-built polling engine, Village IQ. 🎉 All of this while preparing to launch our latest local news site, AuroraToday, and SPACES - our ambitious experiment to change how we connect on the local level. Read more about these updates and more in our spring newsletter 🌼