👤 Richard Woodbury

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-08-31 – 2026-11-01
Claims per article
47
379 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,463
characters
Writes for CBC News.
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
25%
Crime & Law
12%
Entertainment
12%
Environment
12%
Health
12%
Science
12%
Most-tagged topics
N.S.HalifaxNova ScotiaU.S.ANBLAviva CanadaCBCCanadian

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 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 -0.20 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-11-01 · CBC News · Entertainment
Big Jim MacLellan, 92, remembered as six-decade pillar of Men of the Deeps
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-31 · CBC News · Politics
Drug runner? Arms dealer? The Adeline-C made waves in Halifax and beyond
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-04 · CBC News · Science
'The Night of the UFOs': Remembering the Oct. 4, 1967, skies over Nova Scotia
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-03 · CBC News · Crime & Law
3 Cape Bretoners were hit and killed by a train in Maine in 1970. Some want the case reopened
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-24 · CBC News · Environment
4 years after Fiona, N.S. family lives in garage due to unresolved insurance claim
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-20 · CBC News · Health
N.S. gave Saint Mary's University $25M to transform health care. Then it quietly killed the program
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-08-31 · CBC News
Big markup on Nova Scotia mead for New Brunswick Renaissance fair highlights trade barriers
🔮 An $11K order ballooned to $25K under N.B. liquor fees, forcing a Renaissance fair to slash its order A week before Nova Scotians Connor and Maria Jeffreys were set to deliver nearly 600 bottles of mead to a New Brunswick Renaissance fair, the owners of Fireside Meadery hit a regulatory wall that threatened the deal. assertive
2026-09-05 · CBC News
'A surreal moment': Lunenburg's Logan Taylor reflects on making NFL's Chargers
🔮 The 6-7, 312-pound offensive lineman is one of few born-and-raised Nova Scotians to make an NFL team Logan Taylor spent last Sunday hoping his telephone wouldn't ring. assertive
2026-09-20 · CBC News
N.S. gave Saint Mary's University $25M to transform health care. Then it quietly killed the program
🔮 The money was intended to create health-care data analytics and management programs at the Halifax school, but Brian Wong offered few details on how that funding would lead to better health care. assertive
2026-09-24 · CBC News
4 years after Fiona, N.S. family lives in garage due to unresolved insurance claim
🔮 "She'd look at the old house and cry because she couldn't understand why, that she couldn't live in her house 'cause we've had her since birth and to see her like that, that really got to me," said Alma. assertive
2026-10-03 · CBC News
3 Cape Bretoners were hit and killed by a train in Maine in 1970. Some want the case reopened
🔮 Novak, who has Parkinson's disease and is in failing health, has the same thought every morning as he lies in bed and hears the train. "The first person I think of [is] Kenny, Terry and David, and what it would be like under that train and why would you choose the tracks?" said Novak. assertive
2026-10-04 · CBC News
'The Night of the UFOs': Remembering the Oct. 4, 1967, skies over Nova Scotia
🔮 Remembering the Oct. 4, 1967, skies over Nova Scotia Besides Shag Harbour, sightings were reported in Dartmouth, Sambro, Wedgeport and elsewhere Chris Styles was just 12 years old on a clear night when he looked out his bedroom window and spotted a strange light moving along the shoreline a few blocks from his house. He grabbed his grandfather's binoculars to get a better look and then ran out of the house, much to his dad's dismay, down to the water's edge. assertive
2026-10-31 · CBC News
Drug runner? Arms dealer? The Adeline-C made waves in Halifax and beyond
🔮 The 32-metre trawler with a maximum width of seven metres had arrived in Halifax on Oct. 31, 1981, and was abandoned by most of the crew. But it would be years later that the Adeline-C's role in a complex U.S. drug smuggling operation worth as much as $200 million US became fully known. assertive
2026-11-01 · CBC News
Big Jim MacLellan, 92, remembered as six-decade pillar of Men of the Deeps
🔮 "We often tormented him that, you know, he would practise singing at home on Sunday afternoon before going to the concert and all the windows were open … as kids of seven, eight years old, we were thoroughly embarrassed," he said. assertive
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