Metro Canada announced in April 2012 that it would open a digital-only news edition in Windsor. It closed on December 9, 2014.

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This online local news site in Kamloops is owned by the same company that publishes KelownaNow.com. It published its first tweet in January, 2015.

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Cult MTL is a daily web and monthly print publication focusing on local culture in Montreal. It was founded July 2012 and is run by former employees of the Mirror.

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The Mainlander, a news and views website that bills itself as "Vancouver's Place for Progressive Politics", opened in November 2010.

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Cramahe Now, a hyperlocal news site, launched in March 2009.

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This independent local news website was created in an attempt to fill the void left by the closure of the city's daily newspaper, the Moose Jaw Times-Herald, one month prior.

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Cornwall Newswatch is an online-only news independent organization that covers news, opinion, weather and sports in the Seaway Valley.

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The Public Record, a crowdfunded website covering civic affairs in Hamilton, launched on November 3, 2014. The website suspended operations on August 13, 2015, but began a fundraising campaign a month later and relaunched on January 3, 2016.

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This new online local news site was launched on October 26, 2015, as part of the Village Media network. It is exclusively online and features local news covered by local reporters.

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Huntsville Doppler is a new local online news site launched in September 2015.

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Taproot, launched in May, 2016, is a member-supported site for local journalism in the Edmonton area. The independently owned site commissions freelancers to write stories prompted by “how and why” questions asked by members.

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Sooke PocketNews, an online hyperlocal daily news site serving Sooke, British Columbia, launched on January 21, 2015. The online outlet no longer has a website and it ceased reporting local news in late 2021.

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The Bramptonist was created as an online, local news site in February 2015. This online site features stories about the city's arts community, culture, news, events and restaurants.

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The Southwest Post ceased publication in 2018 due to ongoing struggles with generating advertising revenue. This digital-only news site was launched in 2016 in the fall and covered local news in the region around Souris, Hartney and Wawanesa, Manitoba.

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Starboard Communications launched InQuinte.ca, an online news site, in October 2015. The site's newsroom works with the newsrooms of Starboard-owned radio stations Cool 100 and 95.5 to generate content.

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Buzzlocal.tv is an online, video-based news organization in the Greater Moncton Area that launched in June 2016. The digital news outlet has closed. The website is no longer available and the last post on the outlet’s social media accounts was on July 19, 2022.

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Village Media launched OrilliaMatters.com on Jan. 8, 2018, about six weeks after TorStar acquired the Orillia Packet and Times from Postmedia and then shut down the daily newspaper.

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The Oshawa Times is now defunct. The website is no longer in operation and its social media page was last updated in November 2017. The Oshawa Times newspaper served Oshawa, Ontario for nearly 100 years before Thomson Newspapers closed the paper in 1994 after an employee strike. The Oshawa Times was reestablished as an online news publication in August 2016 by independent Oshawa community members who wanted more local news in their area.

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BradfordToday.ca, part of the Village Media network, launched operations on April 30. The new site comes in the aftermath of TorStar's November 2017 closing of the Bradford Times community newspaper in the aftermath of the TorStar-PostMedia newspaper swap.

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250News closed in September 2017 after the death of co-founder Ben Meisner. Meisner started the online news and opinion outlet with his wife, Elaine Macdonald-Meisner, in 2012.

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Village Media launched this news site after the Guelph Mercury newspaper closed in January 2016. It hired two former Mercury journalists to staff the local news website.

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