Montreal Gazette media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Montreal Gazette one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Montreal Gazette biased?
The rating organisations do not give Montreal Gazette one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Montreal Gazette left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Montreal Gazette one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Montreal Gazette reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Montreal Gazette 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 Montreal Gazette has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Montreal Gazette’s own report linked underneath.
Nearly 20 years after the Dawson College shooting, families and survivors are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to fulfil commitments on gun control. They have released an open letter urging action on assault-style firearms, magazine capacity, and handgun exemptions.
Montreal Gazette reported it asMother of student killed in Dawson College shooting 20 years ago demands Carney 'act now' on gun controls (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
Quebec's political parties focused on economic and family policies on the second day of the provincial election campaign. Promises included tax cuts for businesses, diversification of exports, and enhancements to the parental insurance plan.
Montreal Gazette reported it as‘The big fight with America’: How the Canada-U.S. trade war is shaping the Quebec election (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
A fourth Montreal police officer has been suspended in connection with racism allegations at Station 39. The incidents allegedly occurred while the officer was working in the unit, which was dissolved in June. The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal stated that discriminatory behaviour is unacceptable.
Montreal Gazette reported it asFourth Montreal North police officer suspended amid racism investigation (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the United States has withdrawn its positions on discoverability and labelling, and confirmed that measures promoting French language and Canadian culture will not be subject to future trade actions.
Montreal Gazette reported it asTrump claims Carney lied about his opposition to Quebec language laws: ‘I love French Canadians!’ (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
Analysts suggest that discussions around Donald Trump and potential referendums will make the upcoming Quebec election difficult to predict. This contrasts with the situation four years ago when François Legault's party held a significant lead.
Montreal Gazette reported it asMelançon: Quebec public opinion is shifting just days ahead of crucial campaign launch (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a federal investment exceeding $11 billion for Quebec's shipbuilding industry. The funds will be used to construct six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard, replacing aging vessels. Construction is slated to begin next fall, with the first ship delivered in five years.
Montreal Gazette reported it asQuebec’s Davie shipyard gets $11 billion federal contract to build icebreakers (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
CF Montreal indefinitely banned two supporters and suspended privileges for an identified supporter section after an MLS investigation confirmed antisemitic remarks were directed at New England Revolution forward Dor Turgeman during an August 1 match. The club apologised to the Revolution and pledged permanent bans for any further discriminatory behaviour.
Montreal Gazette reported it asCF Montréal bans two fans after MLS antisemitism investigation (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
A second cat in Montérégie, Quebec, has contracted rabies, prompting health officials to urge pet vaccinations. Three people received preventative treatment after exposure. The case follows another in Godmanchester less than two weeks earlier, amid a regional outbreak.
Montreal Gazette reported it asRabies reported in second cat in Montérégie region (opens Montreal Gazette in a new tab)
Reports from 1987 to 2024 document racial profiling and discriminatory practices in Montreal police, including a 2024 court ruling that called it systemic. Left and centre outlets carried the story; no right-rated outlet did.
Montreal Gazette reported it asHanes: SPVM is about to face a moment of truth over Montreal North racism allegations (opens Montreal Gazette 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Postmedia NetworkMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Leon CoopermanBillionaireparent group
- AllianzCorporationparent group
- Chatham Asset ManagementPrivate Equityparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Canada
- Official site
- montrealgazette.com
- Seen publishing on
- montrealgazette.com
- 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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 9 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Montreal Gazette ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Montreal Gazette: its report arrived a median of 10 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 16 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Montreal Gazette 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.
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