Vancouver Sun media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Vancouver Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Vancouver Sun biased?
The rating organisations do not give Vancouver Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Vancouver Sun left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Vancouver Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Vancouver Sun reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Vancouver Sun 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 Sun has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Vancouver Sun’s own report linked underneath.
British Columbia's deficit forecast has risen by $450 million to $13.8 billion. The province's first quarterly report attributed the increase primarily to a calculation error regarding natural gas royalties and higher wildfire-related expenses.
Vancouver Sun reported it asB.C. finance minister faces heat over increasing deficit, projection errors (opens Vancouver Sun in a new tab)
The Fleetwood Islamic Academy Society in Surrey, British Columbia, reported vandalism including threatening graffiti and raw bacon between 11 p.m. on 30 August and 5 a.m. on 31 August 2026. RCMP are investigating the incident as a hate crime. British Columbia’s attorney general condemned the act.
Vancouver Sun reported it asVandal leaves threats, bacon on Fleetwood Islamic Centre in Surrey (opens Vancouver Sun in a new tab)
Three federal byelections took place on Monday, including one in the Liberal stronghold of Beaches, East York in Toronto. These elections were held to fill seats in Parliament that had recently become vacant.
Vancouver Sun reported it asVoters go to the polls in North Vancouver-Capilano federal byelection (opens Vancouver Sun in a new tab)
The CANXPORT export logistics facility has officially opened at the Port of Prince Rupert. The $750 million project aims to increase the transfer of Canadian products from rail to containers for global markets.
Vancouver Sun reported it as'Timing is fortuitous': New Prince Rupert port facility adds Canadian export capacity just as trade war heats up (opens Vancouver Sun in a new tab)
Premier David Eby suggested British Columbia could cut off U.S. access to thermal coal export terminals at Roberts Bank as a non-tariff measure in the escalating trade war. The province's business community expressed concern over potential job losses.
Vancouver Sun reported it asB.C. wood manufacturers call on governments for backing beyond counter tariffs (opens Vancouver Sun in a new tab)
England and Wales have withdrawn support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino over plans to sell minority stakes in FIFA Forward Enterprises, valued at $20bn, to private equity. The Scottish FA has not commented, while its president chairs FIFA’s Finance Committee.
Vancouver Sun reported it asAs Carney joins anti-Infantino chorus, Canada Soccer still cautious (opens Vancouver Sun 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
- Postmedia NetworkMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Leon CoopermanBillionaireparent group
- AllianzCorporationparent group
- Chatham Asset ManagementPrivate Equityparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Official site
- vancouversun.com
- Seen publishing on
- vancouversun.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 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 6 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Vancouver Sun 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 Vancouver Sun: its report arrived a median of 30 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Vancouver Sun 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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