👤 Steve Paikin

4 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-09-19 – 2026-10-31
Claims per article
93
371 extracted in total
Hedged claims
4%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
8,692
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
50%
Health
25%
World
25%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaAmericanAmericansBostonCBC RadioCanadiansCommunistCommunists

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 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.
2026-10-31 · Toronto Star · World
Anna Porter and Eva Czigler recall witnessing the Hungarian Revolution
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-17 · Toronto Star · Politics
Bob Rae and Rosalie Abella on the importance of dialogue and listening in the age of Donald Trump
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-10 · Toronto Star · Politics
Carol Off on ideas vs. identity, and why she's only recently discovered the depth of her patriotism
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-09-19 · Toronto Star · Health
Charles MacDonald worked at Queen's Park. He still wasn't equipped to deal with Ontario's health care system
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-19 · Toronto Star
Charles MacDonald worked at Queen's Park. He still wasn't equipped to deal with Ontario's health care system
🔮 Now, at 54, MacDonald is in the midst of a bureaucratic foofaraw with the Ontario health care system which, if it persists, could result in the amputation of one of his feet. assertive
2026-10-10 · Toronto Star
Carol Off on ideas vs. identity, and why she's only recently discovered the depth of her patriotism
🔮 And I say, “Well, if you were told that you were going to possibly be invaded, you wouldn’t say, ‘That’s just Donald talking.’” assertive
2026-10-17 · Toronto Star
Bob Rae and Rosalie Abella on the importance of dialogue and listening in the age of Donald Trump
🔮 It’s not imagined, and it’s not just something that will come back quickly with the election of a different party or a different president. assertive
2026-10-31 · Toronto Star
Anna Porter and Eva Czigler recall witnessing the Hungarian Revolution
🔮 But in a few days, that dream would be snuffed out by an invasion by the Soviet Union. 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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