The Walrus media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Walrus 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 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Walrus biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Walrus 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 The Walrus left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Walrus 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 The Walrus reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Walrus are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Walrus has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Walrus’s own report linked underneath.
Canada is offering priority access to tax rulings for investors committing $1 billion or more to the economy. The move, announced by Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, aims to reduce risk and encourage major projects.
The Walrus reported it asCarney’s Investment Summit Raises the Stakes for His Big Projects (opens The Walrus in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump's new trade restrictions will block Quebec-based BRP from selling its Can-Am Spyder and Canyon three-wheel vehicles in the United States starting September 29. The company expects the immediate financial impact to be limited.
The Walrus reported it asQuebec Is Getting Hammered by Trump’s Trade War. It’s Not Backing Down (opens The Walrus in a new tab)
President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada is emerging as a significant issue ahead of the US midterm elections. While Canada cannot match US economic power, it may be able to make the trade dispute costly for Trump.
The Walrus reported it asCanada Can Make Trump Regret This Trade War (opens The Walrus in a new tab)
U.S. President Donald Trump stated the United States does not need Canada, while simultaneously imposing a 50% tariff on Canadian aluminum. Reports highlight the significant economic interdependence between the two nations, with Canada being the US's second-largest trading partner.
The Walrus reported it asTrump Thought Canada Would Be His 51st State. Then Came Carney (opens The Walrus in a new tab)
U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose a 50 per cent tariff on $28 billion of Canadian goods is scheduled to take effect just after midnight. The tariffs will be enacted unless officials finalize a trade agreement.
The Walrus reported it asTrump and Carney May Be Headed Toward a Grand Bargain (opens The Walrus in a new tab)
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in US data centres, extending a campaign to exclude Chinese technology from critical infrastructure. The move follows recent prohibitions on Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, with enforcement challenges and industry costs expected.
The Walrus reported it asChinese Spies Are Recruiting Canadians on LinkedIn (opens The Walrus 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
- The Walrus FoundationIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
- Official site
- thewalrus.ca
- Seen publishing on
- thewalrus.ca
- 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
- 4 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.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Walrus 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 Walrus: its report arrived a median of 11 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Walrus, 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.
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 The Walrus 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.