👤 Barbara Yaffe

4 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-10-17 – 2026-11-01
Claims per article
34
136 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,367
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
100%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaU.S.CanadiansAlbertaAlbertansAmericanAmericansB.C.

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.
2026-10-17 · Toronto Star · Politics
Why a booming Alberta's discontent mostly confounds the rest of Canada
19 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-11-01 · Toronto Star · Politics
Donald Trump continues to daydream about swallowing Canada whole
9 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-24 · Toronto Star · Politics
Donald Trump misread Canadians but can't let go of his foolhardy 'Blame Canada' initiative
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-22 · Toronto Star · Politics
What’s with Trump? Why would he hug the Russian bear?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-10-17 · Toronto Star
Why a booming Alberta's discontent mostly confounds the rest of Canada
🔮 Ontario is well positioned to insulate itself from potential geographical problems that would result from Alberta or Quebec opting to quit the federation; Canada’s most populous province does not have to fret about getting cut off from the rest of the country. assertive
2026-10-22 · Toronto Star
What’s with Trump? Why would he hug the Russian bear?
🔮 Trump has decided, the U.S. will sell Europe its weaponry, rather than donate it, as former president Joe Biden did. assertive
2026-10-24 · Toronto Star
Donald Trump misread Canadians but can't let go of his foolhardy 'Blame Canada' initiative
🔮 Sands posits that Carney might even be moved soon to call an election in order to score a bigger majority government than he has now. assertive
2026-11-01 · Toronto Star
Donald Trump continues to daydream about swallowing Canada whole
🔮 The U.S. president insists Canada is now willing to give the U.S. whatever it wants. 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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