👤 Chris Selley

10 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
10
2026-09-07 – 2026-10-17
Claims per article
36
361 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,949
characters · 10 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
80%
Crime & Law
20%
Most-tagged topics
CanadianCanadaCanadiansNDPQuebecthe European UnionAmericanB.C. Supreme Court

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
5 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 +0.07 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-13 · National Post · Politics
Chris Selley: Revoking the Stanley Cup from the NHL is a trade-war bargaining chip worth trying
7 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-03 · National Post · Crime & Law
Chris Selley: If judges now can’t even tell what a ‘fact’ is, we’re really cooked
5 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-09-29 · National Post · Crime & Law
Chris Selley: If we’d prefer drug-free prisons to ‘safe snorting,’ we need a system rethink
2 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-07 · National Post · Politics
Chris Selley: Quebec cannot afford this anti-anglo decadence
2 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-17 · National Post · Politics
Chris Selley: Wab Kinew walks a fine line on residential school ‘denialism’
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-20 · National Post · Politics
Chris Selley: Hating our airports is just what Canadians do. Demanding they improve isn’t
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-07 · National Post
Chris Selley: Quebec cannot afford this anti-anglo decadence
🔮 Among several live linguistic issues in the ongoing Quebec election campaign, the one that seemed to make the biggest dent in anglophone media in recent days was Élections Québec’s announcement that it would only distribute printed election materials, including voter information cards, in French. assertive
2026-09-09 · National Post
Chris Selley: There are American eggs in our midst!
🔮 Canadian egg colossus Burnbrae Farms explains on its website: “On rare occasions, the available supply of eggs cannot meet the demand from our customers and on these occasions we will import eggs from the United States … assertive
2026-09-10 · National Post
Chris Selley: Trump has killed Canada’s anti-monarchy delusions
🔮 Finally we might (as some pundits hoped) “grow up,” “move out of our parents’ basement,” and install a resident head of state. assertive
2026-09-13 · National Post
Chris Selley: Revoking the Stanley Cup from the NHL is a trade-war bargaining chip worth trying
🔮 The U.S.-Canada kerfuffle took an interesting tangent this week when the Buffalo Bills announced the Barenaked Ladies would sing the Canadian national anthem on Sept. 17 at the Bills’ new and lavishly taxpayer-funded US$2.1-billion stadium. assertive
2026-09-15 · National Post
Chris Selley: Carney’s EU cuteness is an unwelcome return to Justin Trudeau’s playbook
🔮 No doubt the Journal asked the PMO to comment on this, which is when the PMO could have poured cold water on the idea right out of the gate. mixed
2026-09-17 · National Post
Chris Selley: A European alliance deserves more seriousness than Carney’s treated it with
🔮 It seems like it could only make people more dubious. assertive
2026-09-20 · National Post
Chris Selley: Hating our airports is just what Canadians do. Demanding they improve isn’t
🔮 David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, says he’s willing to support privatizing Vancouver airport so long as the revenues are invested in improving smaller airports in the province. assertive
2026-09-29 · National Post
Chris Selley: If we’d prefer drug-free prisons to ‘safe snorting,’ we need a system rethink
🔮 We learned this week that Corrections Canada has approved a “safe snorting” program in federal prisons for inmates to reduce “the risk of internal nose cuts that could occur from homemade or plastic straws and reduce infections from diseases such as hepatitis B and C,” which doesn’t sound entirely implausible. assertive
2026-10-03 · National Post
Chris Selley: If judges now can’t even tell what a ‘fact’ is, we’re really cooked
🔮 But to say the Canadian government effectively cannot ban the distribution for profit of certain substances and be in Charter compliance is … well, something I would expect a group called the Drug User Liberation Front to argue. assertive
2026-10-17 · National Post
Chris Selley: Wab Kinew walks a fine line on residential school ‘denialism’
🔮 Say what you will about his government’s performance, you can’t say Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew hasn’t cut an interesting figure. assertive
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