👤 Michael Higgins

6 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
6
2026-09-05 – 2026-10-05
Claims per article
31
188 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,064
characters · 6 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
83%
Education
17%
Most-tagged topics
CanadaCanadianCanadiansEuropeanthe European UnionAlbertaCalgaryCharter

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
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 +0.08 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-18 · National Post · Politics
Michael Higgins: Mark Carney’s EU adventure isn’t about Canadians
26 outlets covered this event
2026-09-05 · National Post · Politics
Michael Higgins: Canadians are proud, angry and want answers from Parliament
22 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-05 · National Post · Education
Michael Higgins: Frances Widdowson sues Lethbridge university for $3M in defamation claim
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-03 · National Post · Politics
Michael Higgins: Governor General has no business musing about ‘denialism’
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-15 · National Post · Politics
Michael Higgins: Is Mark Carney using Canada to make up for Brexit?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-14 · National Post · Politics
Michael Higgins: Women assaulted in prison by trans inmates doesn’t violate Charter, Liberals say
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-05 · National Post
Michael Higgins: Canadians are proud, angry and want answers from Parliament
🔮 A new Postmedia Leger poll reveals that most Canadians are resilient and stoic in the face of a tariff war they expect will raise the cost of living. assertive
2026-09-14 · National Post
Michael Higgins: Women assaulted in prison by trans inmates doesn’t violate Charter, Liberals say
🔮 She might have added that it has weakened protection for female prisoners in Canada. mixed
2026-09-15 · National Post
Michael Higgins: Is Mark Carney using Canada to make up for Brexit?
🔮 If Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Carney is now trying to integrate Canada into the European Union, a move that would surely entail a loss of sovereignty and independence far greater than anything we could surrender to America. assertive
2026-09-18 · National Post
Michael Higgins: Mark Carney’s EU adventure isn’t about Canadians
🔮 In his speech to the European Parliament Thursday, Carney showered the EU and its officials with praise, pledged strategic cooperation, called for closer ties and predicted an “alliance for the future.” assertive
2026-10-03 · National Post
Michael Higgins: Governor General has no business musing about ‘denialism’
🔮 The movement to punish so-called denialism has flourished since questions first arose in the wake of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation issuing a statement in May 2021 stating that ground-penetrating radar “confirms” finding the remains of 215 children at Kamloops Indian Residential School. assertive
2026-10-05 · National Post
Michael Higgins: Frances Widdowson sues Lethbridge university for $3M in defamation claim
🔮 Widdowson, who is claiming $3 million in damages, also alleges that she was defamed when the university sent out a notice that it would be holding a sacred smudging ceremony to “dissipate the negative atmosphere brought by this individual to our community.” Characterizing Widdowson as a “source of ‘negativity’ and communal or spiritual contamination, personally ‘brought’ by her, so serious that the university community required a formal, public ceremony to ‘cleanse’ itself of it” is defamatory assertive
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