The Maple media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Maple on the left. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Maple biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Maple on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Maple left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Maple on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Maple reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Maple are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Maple has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Maple’s own report linked underneath.
Newly released portions of a 1986 study indicate that at least 35 individuals with suspect backgrounds entered Canada after World War II. This occurred via a covert program established by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to the research.
The Maple reported it asDeclassified Report Shows How CIA Resettled Nazis In Canada (opens The Maple in a new tab)
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he has made peace while others only talked about it. He emphasized American strength and warned Iran it faced annihilation or an agreement.
The Maple reported it asCarney Downplays Trump’s Threat To Destroy Iran As ‘Language Of War’ (opens The Maple in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump announced plans to build two large military bases in Greenland during a speech at the UN General Assembly. An agreement was subsequently signed with Denmark and Greenland to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic.
The Maple reported it asCarney Downplays Trump’s Threat To Destroy Iran As ‘Language Of War’ (opens The Maple in a new tab)
Donald Trump spoke at the UN General Assembly, warning Iran against developing nuclear weapons and criticising the International Criminal Court. He also reiterated his desire for a diplomatic resolution to the Ukraine conflict and called for accelerated AI development.
The Maple reported it asCarney Downplays Trump’s Threat To Destroy Iran As ‘Language Of War’ (opens The Maple in a new tab)
The United States has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The European Commission stated it will work with the ICC to ensure its effectiveness, while the UN and several allied nations have condemned the US decision.
The Maple reported it asCarney Downplays Trump’s Threat To Destroy Iran As ‘Language Of War’ (opens The Maple in a new tab)
The head of US Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, called the suggestion of a US invasion of Canada 'absolutely and utterly preposterous' during a news conference in Victoria. He compared the likelihood to an attack on Mars, while also describing Canada as an 'indispensable' military ally.
The Maple reported it asU.S. Admiral Refuses To Say If He Would Obey Order To Invade Canada (opens The Maple 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
- The MapleIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
- Official site
- readthemaple.com
- Seen publishing on
- readthemaple.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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 September 2026
6 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 3 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Maple ran the story anyway.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Maple: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 14 October 2026. Ratings pulled 3 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Maple, 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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The Maple 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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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.