From the editor
The Canadian Charger is back, as The Charger
After the old e-weekly closed in 2025, the site returns as a regional news site built around independent local reporters and a new publishing system.
For more than fifteen years, The Canadian Charger published commentary, reviews and reports by writers from across Canada. It stopped publishing in 2025. Its technology had become outdated, readers had shifted to their phones, and the site could no longer provide what a news site needs to offer today.
Today, it returns under a shorter name, The Charger, with a new team and a new purpose: local news reported from the regions where it happens.
What is new
Our stories are reported by independent journalists who live in the communities they cover. A senior editor at the centre reviews each story before publication and handles corrections. We chose this structure to cover more places than a single newsroom could, while keeping costs low enough to sustain the site.
The site has also been rebuilt. Pages load quickly on any phone. Each story appears in a section and, where applicable, a region, so you can go straight to news from British Columbia, Ontario or the Atlantic provinces. The Latest feed lists everything we publish, starting with the newest.
What stays
The archive remains. Articles from The Canadian Charger are still available with their original authors and publication dates, identified as archive pieces so you can distinguish them from current reporting. When we found a factual error in an archive article, we corrected it and noted the correction at the article’s end.
How to reach us
Send story tips and corrections to our senior editor at [email protected]. Advertisers can contact our sales and marketing team at [email protected]. Send privacy and legal questions to [email protected].