Is NOW Magazine biased?
The rating organisations do not give NOW Magazine one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is NOW Magazine biased?
The rating organisations do not give NOW Magazine one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is NOW Magazine left or right?
The rating organisations do not give NOW Magazine one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is NOW Magazine reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for NOW Magazine are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What NOW Magazine has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with NOW Magazine’s own report linked underneath.
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its 2026 documentary lineup, including Alex Gibney’s four-hour film on Elon Musk and Avi Nesher’s October 7 drama. The 21-title slate includes 18 world premieres and films on Megan Rapinoe and Edward Said.
NOW Magazine reported it asEvery major TIFF 2026 film announced so far, from Being Heumann to Michelle Yeoh’s The Surgeon (opens NOW Magazine 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- GMI Publications Inc.Billionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
- Official site
- nowtoronto.com
- Seen publishing on
- nowtoronto.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen NOW Magazine 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, another outlet was always ahead of NOW Magazine: its report arrived a median of 31 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as NOW Magazine, 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.
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.