Sault Star media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Sault Star 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 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Sault Star biased?
The rating organisations do not give Sault Star 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 Sault Star left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Sault Star 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 Sault Star reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Sault Star 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 Sault Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Sault Star’s own report linked underneath.
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.
Sault Star reported it asBREAKING: Algoma Steel to supply plate steel for new icebreakers (opens Sault Star in a new tab)
The United States announced it would impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian products, effective early Saturday. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated Canada declined to finalize a trade deal on previously agreed terms, leading to the tariffs.
Sault Star reported it asCarney says he's matching new U.S. tariffs (opens Sault Star 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
- Postmedia NetworkMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Leon CoopermanBillionaireparent group
- AllianzCorporationparent group
- Chatham Asset ManagementPrivate Equityparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
- Official site
- saultstar.com
- Seen publishing on
- saultstar.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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 21 August 2026
2 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 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Sault Star ran the story anyway.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Sault Star: its report arrived a median of 24 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 29 August 2026. Ratings pulled 20 September 2026.
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 Sault Star 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.