👤 Brendan Kennedy

3 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
3
2026-09-19 – 2026-10-16
Claims per article
63
188 extracted in total
Hedged claims
14%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
9,128
characters · 1 tagged analysis
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

Crime & Law
67%
Politics
33%
Most-tagged topics
StarTorontoLindsayMTOMarkhamOntariansOntarioProject South

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; 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.
2026-10-16 · Toronto Star · Politics
Ontario government hid study on rates of problem gambling, internal documents reveal
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-20 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
Project South: Chronology of one the largest corruption scandals in Toronto police history
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-19 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
New details emerge about Toronto's guns-for-hire and the 'crash-out mission" that sparked the Project South investigation
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-19 · Toronto Star
New details emerge about Toronto's guns-for-hire and the 'crash-out mission" that sparked the Project South investigation
🔮 Speaking to Heath in the jailhouse call, the caller said those kinds of jobs are “Y-O missions” — what investigators interpreted as a reference to risky jobs best suited for “young offenders,” who may be treated more leniently by the courts. assertive
2026-09-20 · Toronto Star
Project South: Chronology of one the largest corruption scandals in Toronto police history
🔮 Over the next seven months, the Project South investigation would uncover a sprawling web of alleged police corruption, drug dealing and extortion. assertive
2026-10-16 · Toronto Star
Ontario government hid study on rates of problem gambling, internal documents reveal
🔮 The agency had vowed to make the research public, saying it would establish a baseline for problem gambling in Ontario while informing how they tailored their responsible gambling program. 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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