👤 Mike Hager

19 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
19
2026-08-28 – 2026-10-31
Claims per article
35
656 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,540
characters
Writes for The Globe and Mail.
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
68%
Crime & Law
21%
Economy/Business
5%
Entertainment
5%
Most-tagged topics
A.B.UBCB.C.B.C. Supreme CourtCanadaConservativesthe University of British ColumbiaCanadian

Leaning

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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 -0.20 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-24 · The Globe and Mail · Politics
David Eby’s surprise B.C. election culminates in narrow race between NDP, Conservatives
7 outlets covered this event
2026-09-23 · The Globe and Mail · Crime & Law
As Kenneth Law’s sentencing nears, victims’ parents prepare to face grief and push for reform
6 outlets covered this event
2026-09-26 · The Globe and Mail · Politics
Lorne Doerkson takes the reins of B.C. Conservatives, with a party to rebuild and election ahead
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-10 · The Globe and Mail · Politics
Steven Galloway testifies his book sales ‘cratered’ because of sexual-assault allegations
3 outlets covered this event
2026-10-08 · The Globe and Mail · Politics
Steven Galloway says his accuser fabricated details of three sexual assault allegations
3 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · The Globe and Mail · Politics
Stephen Galloway tells court he was shocked by rape allegations
3 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-08-28 · The Globe and Mail
U.S. businesses that rely on Canadian tourism brace for tariff impact
🔮 Concert promoter Dave Wedekindt figured that because Roger Daltrey’s solo tour wasn’t coming to Canada, people living in Southern Ontario might be keen to watch the frontman of the legendary rock band The Who perform at his amphitheatre on the American side of Niagara Falls. assertive
2026-09-05 · The Globe and Mail
Food influencer gets to know B.C. by eating flora and fauna
🔮 The 30-year-old from Honolulu said he gave himself just under a year to see how much of B.C. he could find and eat after free-diving for fish and shellfish around Victoria, where the U.S. naval veteran recently completed a two-and-a-half-year contract working on submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy. assertive
2026-09-15 · The Globe and Mail
B.C. adds $450-million to record deficit following math error, expensive wildfire season
🔮 Her ministry estimates $887-million more in income tax revenue will come in over the course of this budget year. assertive
2026-09-22 · The Globe and Mail
BC Conservatives regroup as several ex-MLAs return to caucus in wake of leader’s resignation
🔮 Speculation that NDP Premier David Eby would call an election two years early dramatically ramped up last week. assertive
2026-09-23 · The Globe and Mail
As Kenneth Law’s sentencing nears, victims’ parents prepare to face grief and push for reform
🔮 And he said his son might still be alive today if police had acted earlier, given he was among the last of the known Canadian victims. assertive
2026-09-26 · The Globe and Mail
Lorne Doerkson takes the reins of B.C. Conservatives, with a party to rebuild and election ahead
🔮 Lorne Doerkson spent his birthday on Thursday doing media interviews as the new leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., a role he did not seek out but was suddenly appointed to last week, and that could see him elected premier by Halloween. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Globe and Mail
Apparent white nationalists’ gathering in Kamloops, B.C., widely condemned
🔮 The dispatcher told him they would send a car there and when the couple looked again, the men were gone. assertive
2026-10-03 · The Globe and Mail
B.C. candidates and voters scramble to get their minds around two elections, one week apart
🔮 This month will see the first overlap of municipal and provincial elections since British Columbia’s Election Act was passed in 1995. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Globe and Mail
Steven Galloway accuser will not testify in defamation trial
🔮 The woman whose allegations of sexual assault against Steven Galloway ended his career in academia will not testify and will not offer any evidence in a defamation case launched by the bestselling author, the trial in B.C. Supreme Court heard as it opened this morning. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Globe and Mail
Stephen Galloway tells court he was shocked by rape allegations
🔮 And so, he said, he was surprised to learn shortly afterward that his former partner had filed a sexual harassment complaint with the school’s administration – an allegation which would eventually publicly explode and torpedo his personal and professional life. assertive
2026-10-08 · The Globe and Mail
Steven Galloway says his accuser fabricated details of three sexual assault allegations
🔮 The trial will not hear testimony from A.B. assertive
2026-10-09 · The Globe and Mail
Steven Galloway accuser threatened to sue UBC for up to $3-million, defamation trial hears
🔮 But Mr. Burnett was allowed by the judge to pursue the discussion of financial compensation for A.B. because – if his client is awarded damages − it could point toward her malicious actions. assertive
2026-10-10 · The Globe and Mail
Steven Galloway testifies his book sales ‘cratered’ because of sexual-assault allegations
🔮 The trial will not hear testimony from A.B. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Globe and Mail
Steven Galloway gets cross-examined on UBC’s reasons for his termination
🔮 His lawyers won a pre-trial motion this summer to keep the majority of his termination letter confidential, but Justice Neena Sharma is expected to weigh in Wednesday on a new motion by the counsel for the defendants to gain access to the redacted rationale for his firing. assertive
2026-10-20 · The Globe and Mail
Ex-husband of Steven Galloway’s accuser testifies in defamation trial
🔮 The woman, who is known as A.B. because of a publication ban on her name, had said she wasn’t going to the authorities and instead would take care of the alleged incident herself, her ex-husband testified on Monday in B.C. Supreme Court. assertive
2026-10-21 · The Globe and Mail
Galloway trial hears accuser first complained of sexual harassment to UBC campus security in 2013
🔮 The ex-husband testified that at that time A.B. refused to file a police report or let him talk to Mr. Galloway, instead telling her partner that she would handle the situation. assertive
2026-10-24 · The Globe and Mail
David Eby’s surprise B.C. election culminates in narrow race between NDP, Conservatives
🔮 “At that point, you just don’t call it and you would have a perfectly good excuse: ‘It’s not a responsible thing to call an election when there’s so much disarray in the main opposition, we’re going to give them a chance to catch their breath.’ assertive
2026-10-31 · The Globe and Mail
From mess to majority: how the BC Conservatives won the election
🔮 It was plagued by staff dismissals, MLA defections, damaging leaks of internal conversations, separate probes by the RCMP and the elections watchdog into alleged political inducements, and – amid the mayhem – a leader unable to calm her dwindling caucus as it sought answers. assertive
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