Hope Standard media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Hope Standard one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Hope Standard biased?
The rating organisations do not give Hope Standard one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Hope Standard left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Hope Standard one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Hope Standard reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Hope Standard 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 Hope Standard has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Hope Standard’s own report linked underneath.
BC NDP leader David Eby announced that small businesses impacted by US tariffs would be eligible for interest-free loans. He also revealed plans for a new tax credit aimed at businesses hiring young people for their first job. The announcement was made in Surrey, British Columbia.
Hope Standard reported it asBC NDP promises new support for small businesses hit by U.S. trade war (opens Hope Standard 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
We hold no ownership record for Hope Standard.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Hope, Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada
- Official site
- hopestandard.com
- Seen publishing on
- hopestandard.com
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 7 October 2026
We have not seen Hope Standard cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Hope Standard’s on it. Its report was the first we hold on every one.
Measured 7 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 October 2026. Ratings pulled 7 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Hope Standard, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Hope Standard publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.