CTV News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place CTV News in the centre. We have seen it on 449 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is CTV News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place CTV News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is CTV News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place CTV News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is CTV News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for CTV News are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What CTV News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with CTV News’s own report linked underneath.
Researchers have identified a new wild cat species, Leopardus tilcayo, in Bolivia's Yungas forest. The small feline, measuring about 45-46 cm and weighing 1.4 kg, is the first new wild cat species described in more than 100 years.
CTV News reported it asNew cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century (opens CTV 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.
CTV News reported it asAlberta man charged with arson in 2020 fire at Metro Vancouver hospital (opens CTV News in a new tab)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to address the European Parliament. This follows a proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, a move US President Donald Trump has criticised.
CTV News reported it asCanadian PM welcomes EU’s ‘ambition’ for associate membership after Trump outburst. Live updates here. (opens CTV News in a new tab)
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that could allow President Donald Trump to impose up to 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil. India's Ministry of External Affairs stated the nation will take necessary steps to protect its trade and economic interests.
CTV News reported it asU.S. House approves sweeping Russia sanctions bill, sending it to Trump (opens CTV News in a new tab)
Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs or halt trade with the European Union if Canada is granted associate membership. He described the prospect as 'laughable' and a 'hostile act', while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed a desire for Canada to be the bloc's first associate member.
CTV News reported it asTrump says Canada becoming an EU associate member could be ‘hostile act.’ Live updates here. (opens CTV News in a new tab)
Canada has formally applied to join the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a military coalition of 10 NATO allies. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the application, which aims to diversify Canada's defence ties beyond the United States.
CTV News reported it asCanada seeks full membership in U.K.-led military coalition (opens CTV 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.
CTV News reported it asTrump orders removal of Canadian goods from U.S. federal procurement. Live updates here. (opens CTV 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.
CTV News reported it asFact File: White House claim of beer victory doused by Sapporo brewer (opens CTV News in a new tab)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence poses significant risks that require global coordination and stronger oversight. This comes as public alarm about AI's potential dangers grows, while former US President Donald Trump maintains existing safeguards are sufficient.
CTV News reported it asUN chief urges global AI co-operation saying world can’t afford ‘a race to the bottom on AI safety’ (opens CTV News in a new tab)
The Immigration Department has declined to state whether a refugee permanent resident sponsorship policy was misused before its expiration last week. Ottawa cited "potential integrity concerns" as the reason for ending the policy, which allowed refugees to sponsor family members not on their initial application.
CTV News reported it asOttawa won't say if people misused a now-defunct refugee residency sponsorship policy (opens CTV News in a new tab)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham held their first meeting at Everton's football stadium. The leaders discussed potential cooperation on defence and AI, and shared personal experiences with Alzheimer's disease, both wearing Alzheimer's Society brooches.
CTV News reported it asPM Carney and U.K. PM Burnham take first meeting to Everton football match (opens CTV News in a new tab)
The U.S. House Oversight Committee voted to recommend holding billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Reports differ on whether the vote was unanimous, and Black's lawyers denounced the resolution as a complete abomination.
CTV News reported it asU.S. House holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt over Epstein investigation (opens CTV News in a new tab)
British Columbia Premier David Eby has instructed his legislators to be prepared for an upcoming election, citing disruption from the trade war with the United States. He has appointed Cheryl Oates to manage the party's campaign.
CTV News reported it asEby says NDP needs to be 'election ready' in B.C., but offers no date (opens CTV News in a new tab)
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, marking the first such increase in over three years. The unanimous decision aims to combat inflation, and was followed by a significant drop in gold prices.
CTV News reported it asU.S. Federal Reserve hikes key rate for 1st time in 3 years, defying Trump demands for a cut (opens CTV News in a new tab)
As Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to visit the United States, families and advocates have made public appeals for the release of detained US scholar Min Zin and Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai. The pleas were made during congressional hearings in Washington.
CTV News reported it asA detained U.S. scholar’s wife asks Trump for help as Xi’s Washington visit nears (opens CTV News in a new tab)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' Missing and Murdered Unit, created in 2021, is plagued by staffing problems, leading to case backlogs and families not receiving necessary victim services. Federal spending has increased, but a significant portion of funds are redirected, and many positions remain unfilled.
CTV News reported it asStaffing problems stall U.S. investigations of missing and killed Indigenous people (opens CTV 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.
CTV News reported it asTrump criticizes Canada over drugs but leaves it off list of drug-producing countries (opens CTV 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.
CTV News reported it asTrump criticizes Canada over drugs but leaves it off list of drug-producing countries (opens CTV News in a new tab)
LeJames Norman was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for a 2005 triple murder. On the same day, a Georgia judge issued a stay of execution for Stacey Humphreys, citing a new sentencing law.
CTV News reported it asTexas plans to execute a man convicted in the killings of 3 people; Georgia execution put on hold (opens CTV News in a new tab)
A major scientific report indicates Greenland and Antarctica have lost between 11.3 and 12.5 trillion tons of ice since 1979. This loss has contributed to a global sea level rise of approximately 3 to 3.14 centimeters, primarily driven by accelerated glacier flow into the ocean.
CTV News reported it asSatellites show Earth lost more than 11 trillion tonnes of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years (opens CTV 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Bell MediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- BCE Inc.Telecomparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
- Official site
- ctvnews.ca
- Seen publishing on
- ctvnews.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
- 449
- Reports listed
- 482
- We could read
- 292
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
190 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 292 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. CTV News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 448 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than CTV News’s on 6 of them. Overall it filed a median of 14 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 3 September 2026.
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