The Globe and Mail Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

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

Bias: -1.14

Reliability: 43.99

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.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 36 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-36 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and/or analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between content pieces.

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 the bias score of a piece of content, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting 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 source’s overall bias score.

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 source’s overall reliability score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the horizontal axis of the Media Bias Chart®️, 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, selective/incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate/fabricated information.

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
In Kamala Harris’s first major interview, little substance but plenty of reassurance-0.6742.0
Biden touts NATO, Ukraine’s resilience as allies convene in Washington-3.6743.0
Opinion: Canada can make a decisive difference in ending violence by men against women-3.3342.67
Opinion: Artificial intelligence makes Bill C-18, Canada’s Online News Act, already outdated1.3333.33
Foreign-interference office coming ‘soon’ but not yet ready to launch, Medicino says0.042.33
Sajjan says he was unaware of senator sending travel documents to Afghans because ‘I wasn’t reading my e-mail’0.041.67
RCMP say Myles Sanderson was causing havoc at James Smith Cree Nation days before deadly stabbing rampage0.042.67
First two Canadian military evacuation flights leave Sudan0.044.67
CMHC forecasts 32 per cent drop in new home construction due to inflation, labour shortages0.043.33
Toronto-area housing developments at risk as lenders accuse StateView Homes of wrongdoing0.044.0
Sound of air strikes echo in Khartoum as U.S., African nations push for ceasefire extension0.044.0
Scientist argues for review around deadly food preservative0.043.33
Glencore would take offer for Teck directly to shareholders if board keeps rejecting merger negotiations0.041.0
Ottawa’s plans to airlift Canadians from Sudan stalled by inability to find landing spots0.043.33
Why Teck Resources’ proposed split never made much sense and shareholders shot it down0.040.67
Seven stats to amaze and depress all who own a house or hope to own1.3339.33
Flood-damaged Vancouver, southern B.C. railways expected to remain impassable for days0.049.33
My friends all want to buy homes. Should I stretch to do the same - or keep renting?0.042.67
Abbotsford’s mayor tells Trudeau that cost of local recovery could hit $1-billion0.047.0
Opinion: Canada’s largest school board doesn’t seem to understand the indispensable role of defence lawyers in our justice system1.033.67
Rogers CEO Joe Natale’s demands rejected by board, leading to his exit0.045.0
Mortgage Rundown: Why variable rates won’t wait for the Bank of Canada to start increasing0.046.67
Biden non-committal about relieving Canada from Buy America tax incentives on U.S.-made EVs1.045.33
Pipeline companies scramble to restore service after B.C. floods, natural gas prices spike0.047.0
‘Three Amigos’ summit: North American cooperation part of fight against international authoritarianism says Biden0.6747.33