Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for CBC Canada according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 44.41

Bias: -5.05

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
Washington state is giving people gift cards to help get them off drugs	0.0	46.33
U.S. star Shiffrin struggling with PTSD after crash, won't defend giant slalom title at ski worlds	0.0	45.33
5th hostage-prisoner swap carried out as Gaza ceasefire holds	0.0	47.0
7.6-magnitude earthquake shakes Caribbean islands	0.0	43.33
America alone: What the U.S. is exiting on the global stage	-10	33.33
Irv Gotti, hip-hop producer and co-founder of Murder, Inc., dead at 54	0.0	43.33
Trump suggests letting 'hell break out' if Hamas doesn't free hostages by Saturday afternoon	-3.33	44.33
Trump slaps 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports 'without exceptions'	-4.33	46.67
Kanye West's X account goes dark after antisemitic rants. Now his website is selling Nazi merch	0.0	45.33
Canadian businesses already feeling the effects of Trump's steel, aluminum tariff threat	-3	46.67
Nevada dairy worker recovers after infection with new strain of bird flu: CDC	0.0	45.33
Cousins found dead weeks apart in Dawson Creek, B.C.	0.0	42.67
Is there really a competitive advantage? Debate over trans athletes tests science and inclusion	-7.33	46.67
Explosions kill at least 73 at event honouring Iranian general slain by U.S.	0.0	47.0
Air force will have to wait even longer to get armed drones, Defence Department says	0.0	44.33
Icelandic women — including PM — stage 24-hour strike for pay equity, end to violence	-4.67	43.0
St. Lawrence Seaway strike leaving goods, ships stranded at Port of Thunder Bay	-1.33	44.0
Russian lawmakers unanimously vote to de-ratify the nuclear test treaty. Here's what that means	0.0	44.33
U.S. journalist detained in Russia after visiting for family emergency	0.0	43.0
First window, then middle, then aisle? United Airlines launches new boarding system	0.0	45.0
Professional Women's Hockey League unveils new logo	0.0	44.33
With growth in clean energy 'unstoppable,' fossil fuels will peak by 2030, energy agency says	-6	45.0
City of Markham apologizes after cancelling public artwork featuring queer subject in drag	-10.33	45.0
This father felt 'helpless' as his daughter succumbed to opioids. She died aged 14	0.0	47.0
Freed Israeli hostage describes 'hell' of abduction by Hamas	0.0	48.33