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Oct 19, 2026
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People Are Dying of Heart Attacks at Nanaimo’s Outdated Hospital
Original article ↗What we measured
Outlets covering
2
Lean bands spanned
2
Widest spread
Left → Center-Left
Verdict
None yet
Key figures
Nanaimo Regional General was designated a tertiary care hospital in 2008, which means it should be able to offer just about any care a patient on the central or northern Vancouver Island may need, outside of specialist cardiac, neuro and transplant surgery, which are centralized in Vancouver or Victoria.
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B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
CENTER LEFT
Where the 2 outlets covering this sit
Left
50%
Center-Left
50%
Healthcare framing
Left majority
2-outlet cluster
Broad pickup
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
-0.60 · LEFT
ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.000 · CENTER
Ensemble
-0.300 · CENTER LEFT
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Rolling outlet bias
CENTER LEFT
avg -0.527
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7-day bias trend
LcenterR
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Excerpt from Turtle Island News
By Michelle Gamage, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Tyee Doctors at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital say the province has delayed critical hospital upgrades for 18 years, which is causing patients to unnecessarily suffer and die. Nanaimo Regional General was designated a tertiary care hospital in 2008, which means it should be able to offer just about any care a patient on the central or northern Vancouver Island may need, outside of specialist cardiac, neuro and transplant surgery, which are centralized in Vancouver or Victoria.…
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1 outlet covered this story
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