👤 Leyland Cecco in Toronto

9 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
9
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-30
Claims per article
38
341 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,426
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
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
78%
Entertainment
11%
Technology
11%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaCanadianMontrealTorontoUkraineAlbertaAlbertansAmerican

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
6 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 -0.31 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-20 · The Guardian · Politics
Alberta voters reject plan for referendum to leave Canada, CBC projects
19 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-30 · The Guardian · Politics
‘Deepest possible partnership’: Canada and EU announce new alliance
17 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-28 · The Guardian · Politics
EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks
17 outlets covered this event
2026-09-15 · The Guardian · Politics
Carney says Canada will pursue ‘unique economic alliance’ with EU amid US trade spat
10 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · The Guardian · Politics
Canada to extend assisted dying exclusion for people whose sole condition is mental illness
9 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-29 · The Guardian · Entertainment
Cuts like a knife: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams trolls Trump with new song
6 outlets covered this event · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · The Guardian
Carney says Canada will pursue ‘unique economic alliance’ with EU amid US trade spat
🔮 Mark Carney said Canada will pursue a “unique security and economic alliance” with Europe as he positions his country as a base to build in the “new global economic order”. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Guardian
Canada to extend assisted dying exclusion for people whose sole condition is mental illness
🔮 Canada’s federal government said Wednesday it would advance legislation to prevent people whose sole health condition is mental illness from accessing euthanasia, an effort by the ruling Liberal party to address a clash in the country over who has access to physician-assisted death. assertive
2026-10-13 · The Guardian
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
🔮 Donald Trump is a “corrupt, senile felon” whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, “godfather” of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself. assertive
2026-10-20 · The Guardian
Alberta voters reject plan for referendum to leave Canada, CBC projects
🔮 Voters in Canada’s Alberta have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to begin a process toward independence, the national broadcaster CBC has projected, delivering a victory for prime minister Mark Carney and supporters of Canadian unity. mixed
2026-10-27 · The Guardian
Olivia Chow elected as Toronto mayor for second term in victory for progressives
🔮 The mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, promised more rental housing, free school lunches and reduce fares for frequent transit riders after she was elected to a decisive second term as mayor in a wave of support for progressives councillors. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Guardian
US ambassador suggests Trump could blame Canada if midterms don’t go his way
🔮 The US ambassador Pete Hoekstra has suggested Canada could be blamed if Republicans perform poorly in next week’s midterm elections, the latest intervention from a controversial figure who has been accused of inflaming a bitter dispute that has angered and baffled residents of both countries. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Guardian
EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks
🔮 The EU has backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on becoming an “associate member” after disagreements between members states just as an EU-Canada summit was set to begin in Montreal. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Guardian
Cuts like a knife: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams trolls Trump with new song
🔮 But one thing it will never be called, says Canadian rock star Bryan Adams, is Lake America. assertive
2026-10-30 · The Guardian
‘Deepest possible partnership’: Canada and EU announce new alliance
🔮 Leaders also said future discussions would lead to a more integrated market worth tens of billions of dollars, reduced trade and travel restrictions, and new educational opportunities for both sides. assertive
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