Rocky Mountain Outlook media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Rocky Mountain Outlook 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 282 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Rocky Mountain Outlook biased?
The rating organisations do not give Rocky Mountain Outlook 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 Rocky Mountain Outlook left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Rocky Mountain Outlook 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 Rocky Mountain Outlook reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Rocky Mountain Outlook 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 Rocky Mountain Outlook has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Rocky Mountain Outlook’s own report linked underneath.
Thousands of people protested outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday evening. The demonstration was against President Donald Trump's stated plans to close and potentially demolish the venue.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asThousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook in a new tab)
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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asCarney set to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook in a new tab)
Phil Klay, an award-winning author and Iraq War veteran, has been appointed the new president of PEN America. He succeeds Dinaw Mengestu, who resigned in July following a PEN report on the isolation of Jewish and Israeli writers. The organization has faced internal disagreements related to the Israel-Hamas war.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asPrize-winning author Phil Klay takes over at PEN America amid Israel-Hamas war rifts (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook in a new tab)
USPS halts Trump‑linked mail‑voting system, Postmaster General David Steiner says work stopped
Trust 56The United States Postal Service stopped work on a computer system designed to support President Donald Trump's plan to limit mail voting. Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed the pause on Thursday, following the Supreme Court's rejection of the related executive order earlier that week.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asPostal Service chief says work stopped on computer system key to Trump effort to limit mail voting (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asAlberta man charged with arson for major fire at Burnaby, B.C., hospital (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook in a new tab)
The board of the Kennedy Center voted to close the performing arts venue due to financial problems and a disagreement about naming the building after President Donald Trump. A judge had previously blocked the venue from being renamed.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asKennedy Center says building closed temporarily due to 'acute risks to public safety' (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asCP Convoy leader Lich denied permission to travel internationally (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook in a new tab)
Canadian Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu is visiting Mumbai from September 18-19 to advance trade talks with India. The visit focuses on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and aims to significantly increase bilateral trade.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asInternational trade minister heading to India, Philippines for talks (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook in a new tab)
Author Kim Stanley Robinson will not read aloud the first chapter of his novel 'The Ministry for the Future,' which depicts a heatwave causing 20 million deaths in India. He feels the scene is too graphic for public reading.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asKim Stanley Robinson won't read aloud his climate disaster scene from 'The Ministry for the Future' (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asCarney to address European Parliament today after 'associate member' proposal (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asTexas puts to death a man in killing of 3 during home robbery, the state’s fifth execution this year (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asTrump calls possible Canada-EU move a hostile act after escalating trade war (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asHouse approves sweeping Russia sanctions bill, sending it to Trump (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asCP Trump signs order to remove Canadian goods from federal procurement (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asCanada seeks full membership in U.K.-led military coalition (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asFact File: White House post about Sapporo moving production out of Canada misleading (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asFederal Reserve hikes key rate for 1st time in 3 years, defying Trump demands for a cut (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asEby says NDP needs to be 'election ready' in B.C., but offers no date (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asOttawa won't say if people misused a now-defunct refugee residency sponsorship policy (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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.
Rocky Mountain Outlook reported it asTrump criticizes Canada over drugs but leaves it off list of drug-producing countries (opens Rocky Mountain Outlook 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
- Glacier MediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Canmore, Bighorn No. 8, Alberta, Canada
- Official site
- rmoutlook.com
- Seen publishing on
- rmoutlook.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
- 282
- Reports listed
- 307
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
307 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 25 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Rocky Mountain Outlook ran the story anyway.
Across the 282 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Rocky Mountain Outlook’s on 10 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.
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