Is Castanet biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Castanet in the centre. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- CastanetIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Kelowna, Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
- Official site
- castanet.net
- Seen publishing on
- castanet.net
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Castanet is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Castanet: its report arrived a median of 7 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- CastanetCentreVery high factualityCanada-U.S. trade minister back in D.C. for talks this week (opens Castanet in a new tab)
Kelowna, Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
Our report: LeBlanc in Washington as US tariffs on Canadian goods loom
- CastanetCentreVery high factualityStatCan reports merchandise trade surplus grew to $3.9B in June (opens Castanet in a new tab)
Kelowna, Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
Our report: Canada’s June trade surplus rises to $3.9bn on weaker loonie and gold exports
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.