👤 John Ivison

13 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
13
2026-08-19 – 2026-10-15
Claims per article
39
512 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,970
characters · 13 tagged analysis
Writes for National Post.
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
77%
Education
15%
Economy/Business
8%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaCanadianU.S.AlbertaConservativeConservativesFranceHamilton

Leaning

-0.07 average ± 0.39 · -0.08 median · 8 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages +0.08. On this many articles the difference between the two is inside the margin. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-03 · National Post · Politics
John Ivison: The truth about why trade talks broke down has yet to be told
22 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-03 · National Post · Education
John Ivison: France is in flames and it’s a gift to the far right
20 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-09-14 · National Post · Politics
John Ivison: If Canada really is open for business, Carney needs to rein in labour strife
10 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-02 · National Post · Politics
John Ivison: Carney pipeline boosting hasn’t yet convinced investors that Canada has changed
8 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-01 · National Post · Politics
John Ivison: The loss of Scott Aitchison is a grim warning for Conservatives
4 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-09-29 · National Post · Economy/Business
John Ivison: There’s more to the Stelco shutdown than Trump winning and Canada losing
4 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-08-19 · National Post
John Ivison: Churchill Falls deal will outlast any damage Trump inflicts
🔮 Rather, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney, the most consequential event was Monday’s announcement in St. John’s, N.L., of a multi-billion-dollar clean energy deal with Quebec that will see a tripling of the generating capacity of the Churchill Falls hydro-electric project. assertive
2026-09-03 · National Post
John Ivison: The truth about why trade talks broke down has yet to be told
🔮 The prime minister has told a version of the past that cannot be disproved by the available facts, but which places heavier emphasis on culture, language and sovereignty issues than the events may warrant. assertive
2026-09-14 · National Post
John Ivison: If Canada really is open for business, Carney needs to rein in labour strife
🔮 According to people close to the negotiations, the U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, would prefer to deal with a Republican-dominated Congress, something that is unlikely to survive November’s midterm elections. assertive
2026-09-17 · National Post
John Ivison: Liberals ponder an early election as Poilievre confronts his Macbeth moment
🔮 But Carney seems supremely uninterested in Parliament and likely views an election campaign as a distraction. The same could not be said for the political people around him. mixed
2026-09-18 · National Post
John Ivison: Repairing Trudeau’s salmon-industry sabotage is next on Carney’s agenda
🔮 When Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa next week, the subject of farmed salmon will be high on the agenda. assertive
2026-09-21 · National Post
John Ivison: Has Mark Carney peaked? The curse of the Rolling Stone would say so
🔮 Sooner or later, he will come down to earth with a bump – quite possibly because he has decided to expend some of the political capital he has accumulated. assertive
2026-09-22 · National Post
John Ivison: Carney throws the NDP a lifeline with his new labour bill
🔮 (But) we’re trusting this man with massive changes that will accelerate projects at the cost of Indigenous rights, at the cost of the environment, and at the cost of protections for workers, including the fundamental right to strike.” assertive
2026-09-29 · National Post
John Ivison: There’s more to the Stelco shutdown than Trump winning and Canada losing
🔮 U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in the White House on Monday that he thinks a trade deal with Canada that gets rid of tariffs will be struck, possibly within three to four weeks. assertive
2026-10-01 · National Post
John Ivison: The loss of Scott Aitchison is a grim warning for Conservatives
🔮 The Conservatives will try to spin the departure of Scott Aitchison, the popular MP for Parry Sound–Muskoka, as being of negligible importance. assertive
2026-10-02 · National Post
John Ivison: Carney pipeline boosting hasn’t yet convinced investors that Canada has changed
🔮 The first was the people of Alberta, who will be asked on Oct. 19 to vote on whether the province should remain in Canada, or whether it should negotiate to hold a binding referendum on independence. assertive
2026-10-03 · National Post
John Ivison: France is in flames and it’s a gift to the far right
🔮 LFI politicians turned up to support some protests, including the left-wing mayor of Saint Denis in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, Bally Bagayoko, who was filmed dancing with students, while garbage cans burned in the background. assertive
2026-10-07 · National Post
John Ivison: On the eve of pro-Hamas vigils, universities finally seem ready to tackle campus antisemitism
🔮 A meeting to that end was attended by representatives of 70 institutions on Monday, with the goal of creating a national strategy that might turn the tide. Gabriel Miller, president of Universities Canada, said universities have done work at ground level to improve policies to protect Jews and fight antisemitism by beefing up campus security, improving training in diversity offices, and so on. assertive
2026-10-15 · National Post
John Ivison: Russia’s deadly crosshairs could be aiming at the heads of Canada’s defence contractors
🔮 When Sentinel R&D, a Hamilton, Ont.-based defence firm, signed a deal with a Ukrainian drone firm, Airlogix, in May, the response from the Kremlin was unusual. assertive
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