👤 Tonda MacCharles

24 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
24
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-30
Claims per article
24
576 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,169
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
62%
Crime & Law
29%
Economy/Business
4%
Health
4%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaCanadianOTTAWAU.S.Albertathe European UnionEuropeanMONTREAL

Leaning

-0.45 average ± 0.08 · -0.40 median · 10 scored articles
Sits to the left of their own outlet, which averages -0.26 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-17 · Toronto Star · Politics
Mark Carney says Canada welcomes EU offer of associate membership despite Trump warning
26 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
Troops were throwing grenades while engaged with a simulated enemy: Maj-Gen. Rutland
22 outlets covered this event
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
Maj.-Gen. Wade Rutland names victims of 'serious fire incident'
22 outlets covered this event
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
39 patients in hospital, 19 in critical condition after 'massive' response, says Danielle Smith
22 outlets covered this event
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
‘Heartbreaking’: Premier Danielle Smith lowers flags for CAF members
22 outlets covered this event
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star · Crime & Law
Detailed briefing expected as official information gap fuels rumours
22 outlets covered this event · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney's blueprint for Canada is a lot more than just 'an anti-Trump strategy'
🔮 “And then he says, ‘Maybe they’ll shoot you.’ assertive
2026-09-17 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney says Canada welcomes EU offer of associate membership despite Trump warning
🔮 Speaking to a half-full European Parliament chamber that belatedly filled up, Carney brushed aside Donald Trump’s late-night warning that any move by the EU to accept Canada as its first associate member would be a “hostile act” that could warrant steep tariffs on Europe, if not outright trade bans. assertive
2026-09-19 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney's relationship with Trump is changing in real time. Is anyone keeping up?
🔮 In the face of what he calls the rupture in the international rules-based order, Carney has — literally at a whirlwind pace — moved on to other places, government leaders, and investors, and wishes that Canadian political figures, business developers and the public would too. assertive
2026-09-23 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney emphasizes international cooperation in wake of Donald Trump's UN speech
🔮 She said 40 boats in the 2028 Vendée Globe sailing race will carry scientific instruments to provide new data from some of the most isolated ocean waters. assertive
2026-09-25 · Toronto Star
Who's anxious about a Canada-U.S. trade deal? That depends who you ask
🔮 There are effectively no U.S. tariffs currently on Canadian oil, gas or potash, and Canada’s Liberal government under Mark Carney has rejected calls to leverage Canada’s resource assets, saying the notion of imposing export taxes or throttling energy or fertilizer exports to the U.S. would risk Canada’s reputation as a reliable supplier. assertive
2026-09-30 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney blasts U.S.-owned Stelco after Hamilton layoffs, says workers were 'betrayed'
🔮 OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a terse rebuke Tuesday to steelmaker Stelco and its parent company for breaching “legal obligations” to maintain jobs in Canada, saying Ottawa will pursue legal action against the company if it fails to meet those obligations. assertive
2026-10-01 · Toronto Star
What a leaked Canada-EU summit document reveals about Mark Carney's turn to Europe
🔮 Remember, that was a big part of the prime minister’s pitch to the U.S. in May, when he said Canada could help “make America great again.” assertive
2026-10-05 · Toronto Star
Report linking Alberta separatists to Americans sparks call for emergency debate
🔮 “What I will say in general terms is, as electoral events take place, democratic events take place, we expect them to be governed in .... democratic principles, where foreign interference or actors influencing local electoral events does not occur,” he said. assertive
2026-10-06 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney's government demands answers from Stelco on layoffs
🔮 OTTAWA—The Carney government wrote Stelco Monday night to demand that the company provide a plan within five days for how it will maintain jobs in Canada as promised, reinforcing the threat that it would face legal action if it failed to act. assertive
2026-10-14 · Toronto Star
Carney government rejects Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russia — but not his 'energy ceasefire'
🔮 The confusion demonstrates once more how Trump may claim a deal where none really exists, and the dangers for international U.S. allies to take sides quickly. assertive
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star
‘Heartbreaking’: Premier Danielle Smith lowers flags for CAF members
🔮 In a statement, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she would meet in Edmonton Sunday with provincial ministers and federal officials. assertive
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star
Detailed briefing expected as official information gap fuels rumours
🔮 They will be joined by provincial ministers and senior officials. assertive
2026-10-18 · Toronto Star
Troops were throwing grenades while engaged with a simulated enemy: Maj-Gen. Rutland
🔮 They were also preparing to go to Latvia in April and May. mixed
2026-10-19 · Toronto Star
Pierre Poilievre urges Albertans to vote for a united Canada in video message
🔮 Unlike many of his unity pitches which have carried a distinct partisan flavour and told Albertans his policy prescriptions would address their “legitimate grievances,” the short video message is an informal riff on how Poilievre feels about the province where he was born and lived until age 22, where his extended family lives, and about Canada. assertive
2026-10-21 · Toronto Star
Mark Carney and Doug Ford to unveil new supports for steel, auto sectors hit by tariffs
🔮 — Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney will roll out new measures Wednesday to support Canada’s steel and auto sectors hard hit by the tariff war, the Star has learned. assertive
2026-10-28 · Toronto Star
Just weeks into the job, Quebec's premier clashes with Carney over EU summit seat
🔮 After the 1995 vote, I realized that I would never be seen as a real Quebecer, although I had The PQ leader quickly found a parliamentary ally in Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, who accused Carney of trying to “muzzle” Quebec’s duly elected leader, and demanded an apology. assertive
2026-10-29 · Toronto Star
Canada won't get associate membership of the EU. Here's what we might get instead
🔮 It would be the first country outside Europe’s continental territory to align in a formal-still-to-be-defined way with the 27 other states that make up the world’s largest single market and trading bloc. assertive
2026-10-29 · Toronto Star
EU chief von der Leyen pushes Canada as 'associate member'
🔮 Our idea is simple: It is an accession that we of course would not look at. assertive
2026-10-30 · Toronto Star
Canada and EU sign deals charting path to 'associate member' status
🔮 At the end of a two-day summit, Canada and European Union leaders set the two allies on a course toward greater integration in defiance of U.S. threats that would be viewed as a “hostile act” warranting possible stiffer tariffs. mixed
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