👤 Alex Ballingall

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-09-06 – 2026-10-23
Claims per article
22
176 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,118
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
75%
Crime & Law
12%
Economy/Business
12%
Most-tagged topics
OTTAWAAlbertaCanadaCanadianAmericanU.S.AlbertansAmericans

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
4 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.
2026-10-22 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
Canada’s top soldier vows action as investigations probe deadly Wainwright fire
22 outlets covered this event
2026-09-06 · Toronto Star · Economy/Business
How Howard Lutnick became Donald Trump's 'ultimate disrupter' in Canada's trade war
22 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-09-15 · Toronto Star · Politics
Carney government will allow private ownership of Canadian airports
10 outlets covered this event
2026-10-23 · Toronto Star · Politics
Maine senator says she secured tariff exemptions for some Canadian goods
5 outlets covered this event
2026-09-21 · Toronto Star · Politics
Carney government tables sweeping bill to overhaul environmental and labour rules
5 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-21 · Toronto Star · Politics
Carney says Ottawa in talks with provinces about sharing 'economic immigration' powers
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-09-06 · Toronto Star
How Howard Lutnick became Donald Trump's 'ultimate disrupter' in Canada's trade war
🔮 The Americans spoke of how they would now exempt goods from tariffs if they complied with the North American trade deal that Trump had signed during his first term. assertive
2026-09-15 · Toronto Star
Carney government will allow private ownership of Canadian airports
🔮 The federal government will allow private ownership of four major airports — including Toronto’s Pearson, Canada’s busiest — in a move that breaks with a decades-long arrangement that saw them run by non-profits on government-owned land. assertive
2026-09-21 · Toronto Star
Carney government tables sweeping bill to overhaul environmental and labour rules
🔮 Carney said last week that the bill was part of a legislative program that would include some of the “most consequential” policy changes in decades, as his Liberal government grapples with the ongoing trade war with Donald Trump’s United States and tries to bolster the economy through deeper commerce and stronger relations with other countries and the European Union. assertive
2026-10-10 · Toronto Star
Carney broke pledge to visit, discuss Pacific Link pipeline before announcement, First Nations chief says
🔮 In an interview Friday, Cold Lake First Nations Chief Kelsey Jacko said Carney told him during last year’s federal election that he would come to the First Nations territory and discuss the project “before anything is announced.” assertive
2026-10-21 · Toronto Star
Carney says Ottawa in talks with provinces about sharing 'economic immigration' powers
🔮 The prime minister said his government will for now focus on pragmatic solutions rather than constitutional reforms. assertive
2026-10-22 · Toronto Star
Canada’s top soldier vows action as investigations probe deadly Wainwright fire
🔮 Carignan, who is the top-ranking officer in the Canadian military, said any “interim” findings from investigations to improve training safety will be implemented quickly, and to make any improvements deemed necessary to prevent anything similar from happening again. “I am heartbroken by the loss of our members,” Carignan said, offering condolences to the loved ones of those killed: Pte. Shaun Farrell, Sgt. Morgan Wong, Pte. Aidan Goulding, and Pte. Hayden Lykkemark. 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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