👤 Rob Gillies

12 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
12
2026-08-21 – 2026-11-04
Claims per article
33
394 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,975
characters
Writes for The Globe and Mail, The Independent, 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
83%
Economy/Business
17%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaCanadianU.S.AlbertaWashingtonthe United StatesAlbertansConservatives

Leaning

-0.45 average ± 0.09 · -0.45 median · 10 scored articles
Sits to the left of their own outlet, which averages -0.23 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-11-04 · Toronto Star · Politics
World leaders who sparred with Trump express relief mixed with caution at Republican election rout
41 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-08-25 · The Globe and Mail · Politics
Ottawa to announce retaliatory tariffs on Tuesday as Trump tells Canada to ‘fall in line’
21 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-08-21 · The Independent · Politics
Canadian premier brands Trump ‘weak’ and predicts he’ll get ‘slaughtered’ in midterms
21 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-20 · The Independent · Politics
Alberta rejects independence and votes to remain in Canada, CBC projects
19 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-19 · The Independent · Politics
Canada’s future hangs over Alberta independence vote as Trump threats fuel national unity fears
19 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-29 · The Independent · Politics
Carney hosts EU leaders as Trump pushes Canada toward Europe, but membership label faces resistance
17 outlets covered this event · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-08-21 · The Independent
Canadian premier brands Trump ‘weak’ and predicts he’ll get ‘slaughtered’ in midterms
🔮 Kinew also predicted that Trump would be “slaughtered” in the midterm elections. assertive
2026-08-25 · The Globe and Mail
Ottawa to announce retaliatory tariffs on Tuesday as Trump tells Canada to ‘fall in line’
🔮 Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday after relations deteriorated sharply Monday, with President Donald Trump telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” or face consequences “far WORSE” than existing tariffs and Prime Minister Mark Carney accusing Washington of trying to subordinate Canada. assertive
2026-09-18 · The Independent
Carney says Canada is ‘strong’ as US borrowing costs rise and Europe ties deepen
🔮 A day after telling the European Parliament that Canada and Europe needed greater resilience so no country could control their markets, impair their sovereignty or dictate their choices, Carney pointed Friday to Canada’s fiscal position as another source of strength. assertive
2026-09-30 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney's stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz
🔮 If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine’s Person of the Year. assertive
2026-10-01 · The Independent
Canada fast-tracks oil pipeline to reduce dependence on US and mend relations with Alberta
🔮 A bid to keep Alberta in Canada Alberta is set to hold a public vote on Oct. 19 regarding whether to hold a referendum on seceding from Canada. assertive
2026-10-19 · The Independent
Canada’s future hangs over Alberta independence vote as Trump threats fuel national unity fears
🔮 Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province will decide Monday whether to begin a process that could lead to independence, testing national unity as President Donald Trump’s trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st state have rallied Canadians around their country. assertive
2026-10-20 · The Independent
Alberta rejects independence and votes to remain in Canada, CBC projects
🔮 Voters in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta have rejected a move toward independence, the CBC projected early Tuesday. assertive
2026-10-27 · The Independent
Canada's leader says Trump is backing down in trade war as US moves closer to his demands
🔮 He also acknowledged he cannot be sure Trump would honor a new trade agreement. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Independent
Trump criticized over 'highly unusual' posts about Canadian provincial election wins
🔮 Béland warned that the accusations could foreshadow a “Blame Canada” narrative if Republicans suffer losses in the midterms. “It is absurd for President Trump to comment on Canadian provincial politics while the U.S. embassy in Canada is falsely claiming that country is interfering in the U.S. midterms,” Béland said. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Globe and Mail
Trump celebrates Quebec separatist, B.C. Conservative election wins in social media posts
🔮 “That’s an interesting way of framing it,” Carney said, before adding that Canada would pursue a trade deal with Washington only when it served Canadian interests. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Independent
Carney hosts EU leaders as Trump pushes Canada toward Europe, but membership label faces resistance
🔮 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa will join Carney in Montreal on Thursday for a two-day summit aimed at deepening trade, defense and economic ties as Canada and Europe seek to reduce their dependence on Washington in a changing world order. assertive
2026-11-04 · Toronto Star
World leaders who sparred with Trump express relief mixed with caution at Republican election rout
🔮 LONDON (AP) — World leaders who have sparred with the “America first” President Donald Trump greeted the rout of his Republican Party in the U.S. midterm elections with a measure of relief on Wednesday, allowing themselves to hope for a less combative U.S. foreign policy. But that hope was seasoned with expectation that American voters’ rebuke would not necessarily end the U.S. conflict with Iran or change Trump’s policies on tariffs or his lukewarm-at-best support for Ukraine and America’s European allies. 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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