The boringnews is good news
No clickbait. Just the facts. AI-assisted. Mostly accurate. Getting better every day.
Covering 100+ communities.
Coast to coast to coast.
The Boring News is dedicated to delivering fact-driven coverage of local matters. We monitor hundreds of Canadian communities for the stories that matter locally but rarely make headlines: government, sports, business, and the arts. More coverage, more often, for more places.
Our Mission
Facts.
Not opinions.
More Local Coverage
Adding coverage to communities that deserve more attention, whether they have one local source or none.
Unbiased Data
Fact-first content. No opinions, no spin, just the record.
Readers First
We prioritize community health over engagement-baiting algorithms.
Total Coverage
It doesn't replace journalists. It gives them superpowers.
Our Newsroom Agent changes the math behind local newsrooms. It monitors the web, sifts through the noise, and serves up verified leads.
Working together, journalists can focus on curating impactful stories rather than hunting for them. This allows for an explosion in coverage, making it economically viable for small independent producers to exist again.
It’s not perfect yet — but it’s getting better every week. And there’s always a human in the loop.
We're In Alpha. Here's What That Means.
The Boring News uses AI to help surface and draft local news at a scale that would be impossible with traditional newsrooms alone. That AI is powerful. It is also, sometimes, wrong.
Language models can hallucinate — they present fabricated details with the same confidence as verified ones. A name gets swapped. A date shifts. A detail appears that didn’t happen. We catch most of these errors through human review, but we don’t catch all of them. Not yet.
We believe in being upfront about this because our mission is facts, and that starts with being honest about our own limitations.
What we’re doing about it:
We’re a small team with a limited budget, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise. When we find an error — or when a reader flags one — we fix it. We try to link every article back to its original sources so readers can verify the details themselves, though we’re not always able to. We’re improving our review processes with the resources we have, and our accuracy is measurably better this month than it was last month. That trend will continue — we just ask for some patience while we get there.
Why we publish anyway:
Because waiting for perfection means publishing nothing. Thousands of community stories — council votes, small business openings, local sports results, infrastructure projects — go unrecovered every week across Canada. A small, scrappy, imperfect-but-improving system that surfaces these stories adds something real to communities that need it.
We’d rather be honest and early than polished and absent.
If you spot an error, tell us. Seriously. You’re part of the process. Every correction makes the system smarter and your community’s coverage more reliable.
fixit@boringnews.ca · We’re small, but we read everything.