Feds list Port of Vancouver expansion as project of national importance
Original article ↗What we measured
Outlets covering
9
Lean bands spanned
3
Widest spread
Center-Left → Center-Right
Verdict
None yet
Key figures
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon made the announcement on Friday afternoon, touting the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 proposal as a "megaproject" that would contribute $3 billion each year to Canada's GDP.
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B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
CENTER RIGHT
Where the 9 outlets covering this sit
Center
67%
Center-Left
22%
Center-Right
11%
Transportation framing
Center majority
9-outlet cluster
Broad pickup
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
0.00 · CENTER
ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.332 · RIGHT
Ensemble
0.332 · CENTER RIGHT
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Rolling outlet bias
CENTER LEFT
avg -0.228
1,242 articles tracked all-time
7-day bias trend
LcenterR
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Excerpt from iPolitics
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon made the announcement on Friday afternoon, touting the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 proposal as a "megaproject" that would contribute $3 billion each year to Canada's GDP.
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8 outlets covered this story
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