The Aporia · Georgie Smyth

Articles

2

2026-09-16 – 2026-10-02

Claims per article

38

77 extracted in total

Hedged claims

13%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

6,788

characters

Writes for CBC News.

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.

Environment

50%

Politics

50%

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AustraliaAustralianB.C.BCWSCanadaChinaPentagonSummerland

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2 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 -0.20 (centre).

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2026-10-02 · CBC News · Environment

Why are B.C. firefighters still using wildfire data from the 1990s?

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-09-16 · CBC News · Politics

G'day, USA: Why is the U.S. accelerating military ties with Australia?

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly right

2026-09-16 · CBC News

G'day, USA: Why is the U.S. accelerating military ties with Australia?

🔮 The high-level talks ended with a declaration that the U.S. would accelerate its military presence in Australia — which already includes a remote desert intelligence base and annual rotations of thousands of U.S. troops across Australian bases. assertive

2026-10-02 · CBC News

Why are B.C. firefighters still using wildfire data from the 1990s?

🔮 Forecasters say prediction models are underperforming during province's extreme fires Neal McLoughlin, superintendent of predictive services with the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS), is trying to get one of B.C.'s most challenging fires, the Bald Range wildfire, to behave in his modelling software the way it did on the ground in the Okanagan Valley on Aug. 7. assertive

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