The Tyee media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Tyee as leaning left. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Tyee biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Tyee as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Tyee left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Tyee as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Tyee reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Tyee 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 Tyee has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Tyee’s own report linked underneath.
Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas has criticised separatists for allegedly offering Alberta's assets, including water and oil royalties, to US interests in exchange for support. Separatist leader Jeff Rath denies negotiations took place, calling the claims a 'lie'. Alberta's premier stated she was unaware of meetings between her party president and US strategists.
The Tyee reported it asWhat Separatists Offered the US, and Smith’s Strange Blinders (opens The Tyee in a new tab)
Approximately 30 masked individuals, reportedly linked to white supremacist ideology, gathered on Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc land. Political leaders condemned the demonstration as hateful and intimidating, occurring days before Truth and Reconciliation Day.
The Tyee reported it asMasked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears (opens The Tyee in a new tab)
Claire Rattée has left the British Columbia Conservative caucus, becoming the 10th MLA to do so since August. She issued a statement criticising party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and alleging internal investigations.
The Tyee reported it asAfter Findlay, What Comes Next? (opens The Tyee in a new tab)
The Liberal Party won all three federal byelections held on September 1, 2026, increasing its seat total to 173 and securing its majority government. The wins came amid an escalating trade war with the United States.
The Tyee reported it asWhat a Liberal Win in North Vancouver Means for Federal Politics (opens The Tyee 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.
The Tyee reported it asPlease Advise! Will Trump’s Tariffs Crush Us? (opens The Tyee in a new tab)
Canada and the U.S. delayed new tariffs by three days as negotiations continue. Provinces agreed to return U.S. alcohol to shelves, except Manitoba, where Premier Wab Kinew urged Canadians to boycott it. Alberta and Saskatchewan already restocked.
The Tyee reported it asAs Carney Stands Tall Against Trump, the Timing Is Ideal (opens The Tyee 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
- Tyee Independent Media SocietyIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Official site
- thetyee.ca
- Seen publishing on
- thetyee.ca
- 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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 24 August 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.
We have not seen The Tyee cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
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 Tyee: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 October 2026. Ratings pulled 23 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Tyee, 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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