Times Colonist media bias and reliability
The bias data this site ingests places Times Colonist as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is Times Colonist biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Times Colonist as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Times Colonist left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places Times Colonist as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Times Colonist reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Times Colonist. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What Times Colonist has been covering
None yet. This fills in as Times Colonist appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Times Colonist on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Times Colonist.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Victoria, Capital, British Columbia, Canada
- Seen publishing on
- timescolonist.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story Times Colonist appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 26 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Times Colonist, 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 Times Colonist 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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