City News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place City News in the centre. We have seen it on 165 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is City News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place City News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is City News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place City News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is City News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for City News are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What City News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with City News’s own report linked underneath.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to attend the United Nations General Assembly next week. Geopolitical instability and war are noted as factors surrounding the event, with U.S. President Donald Trump's actions to dismantle the multilateral order also mentioned. Carney will not deliver a speech, but Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is slated to speak.
City News reported it asCarney set to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week (opens City News in a new tab)
Claire Rattée has left the British Columbia Conservative caucus, becoming the 10th MLA to do so since August. She issued a statement criticising party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and alleging internal investigations.
City News reported it asClaire Rattée is 10th B.C. Conservative to leave caucus, blasting Findlay on way out (opens City News in a new tab)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a keynote address at a conference for the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense, which he formerly chaired. He told attendees they had a friend in the Trump White House and highlighted administration actions to alter vaccine guidance.
City News reported it asKennedy tells anti-vaccine activists they have a friend in Trump's White House (opens City News in a new tab)
Yu Yung Wang, 29, has been charged with arson and disregard for human life in connection with a 2020 fire at Burnaby Hospital. The incident forced the emergency department to close and contributed to a deadly COVID-19 outbreak.
City News reported it asAlberta man charged in connection with alleged arson at Burnaby Hospital (opens City News in a new tab)
An Ontario judge has denied Tamara Lich's request to travel internationally for work, citing concerns that it would undermine her sentence for her role in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests. Lich sought permission for interviews, a book tour, and speaking engagements.
City News reported it asConvoy leader Lich denied permission to travel internationally (opens City News in a new tab)
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address the 81st session via video link. The decision follows the United States' denial of a visa to Abbas, preventing his in-person attendance in New York.
City News reported it asTrump administration again denies visas for Palestinian delegation to attend the UN General Assembly (opens City News in a new tab)
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to identify and remove Canadian-origin goods from U.S. federal civil government procurement. The move escalates an ongoing trade dispute between the two countries.
City News reported it asTrump signs order to remove Canadian goods from federal procurement (opens City News in a new tab)
The White House posted on X about Sapporo Breweries moving production from Canada to the US due to tariffs. The brewery later clarified that only non-alcoholic beer, less than one per cent of its Canadian output, is being considered for the move.
City News reported it asWhite House post about Sapporo moving production out of Canada misleading (opens City News in a new tab)
A super PAC linked to Donald Trump, No Going Back PAC, has reported spending approximately $21 million on independent expenditures in competitive Senate and House races. The largest Senate expenditures targeted Democratic candidates.
City News reported it asTrump-aligned groups are pouring money into the midterm races (opens City News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has accused Canada of not doing enough to stop drug trafficking, alleging that fentanyl is produced in clandestine Canadian labs. However, he did not include Canada on a list of major drug-producing countries submitted to Congress.
City News reported it asTrump criticizes Canada over drugs but leaves it off list of drug-producing countries (opens City News in a new tab)
The US has named India, China, and Pakistan among 23 countries designated as major drug transit or illicit drug-producing nations for fiscal year 2027. The determination acknowledges India's efforts to combat opium cultivation but identifies Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, and Colombia as having failed counternarcotics obligations.
City News reported it asTrump criticizes Canada over drugs but leaves it off list of drug-producing countries (opens City News in a new tab)
The Trump administration is preparing to sell Israel a $2.8 billion arms package that includes 40,000 heavy aerial bombs. The sale, reported by The Washington Post, involves munitions that have been linked to civilian casualties in Gaza and Lebanon.
City News reported it asTrump administration approves sending powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8 billion weapons sale (opens City News in a new tab)
United Steelworkers International President Roxanne Brown called for unity between Canada and the United States amid ongoing trade tensions. She delivered her message at a news conference in Laval, Quebec, on Tuesday, September 15.
City News reported it asSteelworkers union president calls for Canada-U.S. unity in Quebec amid trade war (opens City News in a new tab)
Prime Minister Mark Carney is travelling to France to address the European Parliament, seeking to deepen ties with the European Union. The visit comes as Canada is engaged in a trade dispute with the United States, with Carney stating a desire for Canada to emerge stronger and more independent from the conflict.
City News reported it asCarney hopes trade war with U.S. will make Canada stronger (opens City News in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot regulations ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The court's order leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the rules.
City News reported it asTrump slams the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots (opens City News in a new tab)
The United States has imposed 50% tariffs on a select group of Canadian products, including motorboats and steel, while simultaneously removing tariffs on others like cement and toilet paper. The measures are part of an escalating trade war between the two nations.
City News reported it asLatest U.S. tariffs take effect on a small number of Canadian goods, some removed (opens City News in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
City News reported it asMcConnell returns to the Senate for the first time since his June hospitalization (opens City News in a new tab)
British Columbia's deficit forecast has risen by $450 million to $13.8 billion. The province's first quarterly report attributed the increase primarily to a calculation error regarding natural gas royalties and higher wildfire-related expenses.
City News reported it asB.C. government forecasting larger deficits over next 3 years (opens City News in a new tab)
The Canada Border Services Agency has removed 111 individuals suspected of links to extortion and organized crime as part of a nationwide operation. The deportations follow 188 removal orders issued over the past year, with most occurring in British Columbia and the Greater Toronto Area.
City News reported it asBorder authorities have deported 111 due to extortion violence since last August (opens City News in a new tab)
Democratic state parties are launching the "New Battlefield Project" to recruit 10,000 volunteers for the midterm elections. The effort is intended to guard polling places against potential federal officer presence and to counter perceived interference from the Trump administration.
City News reported it asDemocrats and activist groups plan to push back if Trump tries to interfere in midterm elections (opens City News in a new tab)
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
- Rogers CommunicationsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
- Official site
- citynews.ca
- Seen publishing on
- toronto.citynews.ca, calgary.citynews.ca, montreal.citynews.ca, vancouver.citynews.ca, citynews.ca, halifax.citynews.ca, edmonton.citynews.ca, ottawa.citynews.ca
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 165
- Reports listed
- 169
- We could read
- 37
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
132 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 37 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. City News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 165 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than City News’s on 11 of them. Overall it filed a median of 8 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 3 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as City News, also publishing from Canada, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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