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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. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.

Leans rightHigh factuality

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.

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
1
Reports listed
1
We could read
0
First seen
4 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.

On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Vancouver Sun ran the story anyway.

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 Sun: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.

Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.

Other outlets rated the same way

Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Vancouver Sun, 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.

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.

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