For democracy

People deciding who runs their city, their province and their country should be able to trust the information behind that decision.

Social media is where that information now arrives, and where lies about it spread fastest. The platforms that carry it check nothing before it publishes. Corrections, when they come at all, arrive after the damage is done. Democracies have paid for that, in Canada and everywhere else.

SPEAC is a social platform built the other way around. Every post is checked before it reaches a reader, and the finding travels with it. That makes it a place to talk about an election, not only a place to check one. A decision at the ballot box has two halves, how to vote and who to vote for, and both run on information that has to be trustworthy.

How to vote

• Voter information, checked against the body that administers it. An answer about ID rules cites the elections office, not a newspaper's summary of it. Rumours about who may vote, what to bring and when are answered before they keep someone home.

Who to vote for

• Candidates stand by their claims. What a candidate says about the city's finances, a rival's record or their own is checked on the evidence, the same way for everyone. SPEAC endorses no one.
• Lies about candidates are answered. Misrepresenting what a candidate said or stands for is a false claim like any other, and it gets the same check and the same finding, whoever spreads it.
• The conversation happens where the check is. On SPEAC, the argument about a candidate and the finding on the claim sit in the same thread. Nobody has to leave the discussion to find out whether it rests on anything.

What travels

• Findings anyone can carry. Each check becomes a signed, dated card that a voter, a candidate or a newsroom can post under the rumour it answers, on any platform.

Now · Ottawa municipal election · October 26, 2026

Ottawa Votes 2026

Ten questions Ottawa voters ask, checked against the City of Ottawa's and Ontario's own pages: ID, the notification letter, who can vote, advance dates, mail-in ballots, the voters' list.

See the checked answers →

Running an election, a newsroom, or a civic group? Write to us. Corrections to any finding are welcome from the body that administers the fact.