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Oct 8, 2026
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Major government economic legislation C-39 clears first vote
Original article ↗What we measured
Outlets covering
5
Lean bands spanned
3
Widest spread
Left → Right
Verdict
Verified
Named in this story
Pierre Poilievre●
Matched by name against the article text.
● also tracked in another Watch product.
Key figures
By David Baxter and Craig Lord OTTAWA-A key piece of economic legislation, Bill C-39, has passed its first vote in the House of Commons and the 243-page bill will now be studied by a special committee.
Quoted verbatim from the article — not summarised.
B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
CENTER
Where the 5 outlets covering this sit
Center
60%
Left
20%
Right
20%
Economy framing
Center majority
5-outlet cluster
Broad pickup
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
0.11 · CENTER
ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.000 · CENTER
Ensemble
0.056 · CENTER
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Rolling outlet bias
CENTER LEFT
avg -0.487
1,531 articles tracked all-time
7-day bias trend
LcenterR
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Excerpt from Turtle Island News
By David Baxter and Craig Lord OTTAWA-A key piece of economic legislation, Bill C-39, has passed its first vote in the House of Commons and the 243-page bill will now be studied by a special committee. The bill proposes giving the government more powers to fast-track projects deemed to be in the “national interest” and making changes to the Canada Labour Code to reduce the number of labour disruptions in federally regulated sectors. The Conservatives voted with the Liberals on the legislation, though leader Pierre Poilievre said his party will table several amendments at committee.…
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Local coverage · Ontario
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How we scored this article
WTF uses a two-tier system: every article gets a heuristic bias score from keyword analysis, and priority articles (high overlap across 3+ outlets or strong heuristic signal) get full LLM analysis from B.I.A.S. and V.E.R.I.F.Y.
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4 outlets covered this story
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