👤 Andrew Phillips

5 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
5
2026-09-18 – 2026-10-30
Claims per article
37
186 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,521
characters
Writes for Toronto Star.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
60%
Crime & Law
20%
Health
20%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaCanadianAmericanHuntsvilleJusticeMaineNapoleonicParliament

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
5 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.26 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-02 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
Tennessee's death penalty travesty was decades in the making
31 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-18 · Toronto Star · Politics
Carney's handshake with Europe and the end of the 'American age'
26 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-16 · Toronto Star · Politics
Canada is inflicting pain and U.S ambassador Pete Hoekstra is feeling it
2 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-30 · Toronto Star · Health
Setting policy for medically assisted dying should never be rushed
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-22 · Toronto Star · Politics
In the war with Donald Trump, Mark Carney shifts from defence to offence
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-18 · Toronto Star
Carney's handshake with Europe and the end of the 'American age'
🔮 A year ago I expect that would have been viewed with alarm. assertive
2026-09-22 · Toronto Star
In the war with Donald Trump, Mark Carney shifts from defence to offence
🔮 The defenders’ morale will be higher; others may come to their aid in the face of naked aggression. assertive
2026-10-02 · Toronto Star
Tennessee's death penalty travesty was decades in the making
🔮 As you may have heard, executioners injected Pike not once, but twice, with a drug called pentobarbital. assertive
2026-10-16 · Toronto Star
Canada is inflicting pain and U.S ambassador Pete Hoekstra is feeling it
🔮 Hoekstra says Canada may be engaged in “election interference” in his country’s midterm elections and says ominously that the Trump administration “will respond” if it concludes this country really is meddling. assertive
2026-10-30 · Toronto Star
Setting policy for medically assisted dying should never be rushed
🔮 It looks to be largely a political calculation: those who are upset the government is barring MAID for mental illness may be assuaged by opening the door to advanced directives. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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