Is Vancouver Island Free Daily biased?
The rating organisations do not give Vancouver Island Free Daily one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Vancouver Island Free Daily biased?
The rating organisations do not give Vancouver Island Free Daily one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Vancouver Island Free Daily left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Vancouver Island Free Daily one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Vancouver Island Free Daily reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Vancouver Island Free Daily are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Vancouver Island Free Daily has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Vancouver Island Free Daily’s own report linked underneath.
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria to Toronto was cancelled after a child refused to sit down and fasten their seatbelt, forcing the aircraft to return to the terminal. The delay caused the flight to miss the airport’s 12:30 a.m. runway closure, leaving passengers rebooked for the following day.
Vancouver Island Free Daily reported it asStrap in: Victoria flight cancelled after child refused to wear seatbelt (opens Vancouver Island Free Daily 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
We hold no ownership record for Vancouver Island Free Daily.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Parksville, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
- Official site
- vancouverislandfreedaily.com
- Seen publishing on
- vancouverislandfreedaily.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 10 August 2026
1 of those reports was 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 Vancouver Island Free Daily cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Vancouver Island Free Daily: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 August 2026. Ratings pulled 10 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Vancouver Island Free Daily, 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 Vancouver Island Free Daily 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.