There is some "financial" news that matters.
It's worthwhile to keep track of changes in tax laws for example. For example, the IRS published guidance on section 199A a couple weeks ago. That's the much hullabalooed pass-through deduction. That's worth reading about, at least enough to determine whether or not it effects you.
And every year I check to see if the contribution limits for IRAs, 401ks, HSAs, etc have changed.
But generally Retire-Canada is correct. High quality financial journalism does exist (the Economist, and occasionally in better newspapers), but you are free to ignore it because it has zero relevance to individual, buy-and-hold, index fund investors.