Is CBC News biased?
The bias data this site ingests places CBC News as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups CBC News on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for CBC News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Seen publishing on
- cbc.ca
- 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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 3
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 3 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen CBC News cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than CBC News’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 5 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- CBC NewsLeans leftVery high factualityCanada-U.S. trade minister back in Washington as countries 'intensify' trade talks (opens CBC News in a new tab)
Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaOwner: Government of Canada
Our report: LeBlanc in Washington as US tariffs on Canadian goods loom
- CBC NewsLeans leftVery high factualityDFO study updates science behind lobster management measures in parts of N.S., southern N.B. (opens CBC News in a new tab)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Our report: DFO study reviews lobster management measures in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick waters
- CBC NewsLeans leftVery high factualityDFO study updates science behind lobster management measures in parts of N.S., southern N.B. (opens CBC News in a new tab)
Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaOwner: Government of Canada
Our report: Federal researchers study small changes to boost falling lobster catches
- CBC NewsLeans leftVery high factualityEuropean soccer body UEFA warns FIFA of legal action over Infantino's failed World Cup sell-off plan (opens CBC News in a new tab)
Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaOwner: Government of CanadaCarried from Associated Press News
Our report: UEFA threatens legal action over Infantino's $4.2bn World Cup profit sale plan
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.