I’m Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk.  A recent news poll question on our web page asked listeners where you get your news. Seventy-seven per cent said they go to the news source, 10 per cent social media and 13 per cent don’t follow the news. The 10 per cent on social media is concerning, obviously due to Meta’s decision to remove Canadian news from appearing on their social media, like Facebook. This of course due to the federal government bill C-18 or the Online News Act which requires companies to pay for showing links to news provided by Canadian news outlets. It is heartening to know that more than three quarters of people go to the source but the 13 per cent who don’t follow news is an interesting perspective. I have siblings actually who have told me on more than one occasion they don’t follow the news. They say either it doesn’t impact their life, or they don’t have interest in the subject matter, or they don’t feel knowing about it will change what happens. And that begs the question what motivates people to be interested in the broader world around them. Is it how I package the information when delivering the news? Quite likely. But is it how you were brought up? I’d say no. We were raised in the same household which stopped down every night and watched the 6 o’clock news on CKCK Regina and in the morning the radio on the fridge was always on and we sat and listened to the news getting ready to go to school. As well, our parents discussed politics locally, provincially and federally with me, with us I suspect if they had shown an interest. Which I am guessing they did not. I have always thought it was important to go to the source for news, by going to the source – someone else, some computer-generated logarithm based on your web surfing, doesn’t decide what you see. I believe news is important, that global awareness is important and if the only change you can effect is casting a ballot, then I think that’s important too.