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I.N.K. · one event, many tellings

Story clusters

Articles describing the same story are grouped across the outlets we track, so the spread of framing sits in one place. Clusters carried by at least two outlets appear here, widest framing spread first.

Clusters in window 2,947two or more outlets · last 30 days · showing 40
Showing framing spread 73425% of them — most coverage of an event shares one band
Widest cluster 12outlets on a single story
Blindspot seeds 2,917under 6 outlets — may be a small story, or one the press missed
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B.C. Premier Eby calls early election for Oct. 24, says Trump is ‘existential’ threat

5 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 6h · updated 28d ago
establishedBlindspot seedCheckable dispute
Center-Left median spread 45/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 5 outlets.

OneBC says former Conservative leader Findlay and husband Chapman were threatened

4 outlets · 4 articles · picked up over 4h · updated 14d ago
Blindspot seed
Center-Left median spread 62/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 4 outlets.

West Coast pipeline deadline day: Carney, Smith to make announcement in Fort McMurray

4 outlets · 4 articles · picked up over 5h · updated 19d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 50/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 4 outlets.

MPs to hold first vote on federal government’s key economic bill C-39

3 outlets · 5 articles · picked up over 5h · updated 12d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 40/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 3 outlets.

US Marine arrested for alleged murder of a woman on Okinawa, triggers outrage from Japan

3 outlets · 3 articles · picked up over 2h · updated 16d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 67/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 3 outlets.

Trump says Canada is ‘destroying itself,’ Carney to speak at event with European leader. Live updates here. - CTV News

3 outlets · 4 articles · picked up over 3h · updated 27d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 58/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 3 outlets.

Real Madrid demands La Liga president resigns after comparing attacks on referees with Nazi propaganda

2 outlets · 2 articles · picked up over 5h · updated 4d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 100/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 2 outlets.

Is it back? B.C. Conservatives vow to build 10-lane Massey bridge

2 outlets · 2 articles · picked up over 2h · updated 5d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 100/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 2 outlets.

B.C. Conservatives plan to repeal no-fault insurance, leaked letter shows

2 outlets · 2 articles · picked up over 10h · updated 14d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 100/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 2 outlets.

CP NewsAlert: Quebec Liberal Leader Charles Milliard projected to win seat

2 outlets · 4 articles · picked up over 1h · updated 15d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 58/100

Framing runs from Left to Right across 2 outlets.

NewsAlert: Cold Lake First Nations seeks judicial review of pipeline designation

7 outlets · 8 articles · picked up over 3h · updated 12d ago
Checkable dispute
Center median spread 30/100

Framing runs from Left to Center-Right across 7 outlets.

Minimum wage hikes set to begin across five provinces

7 outlets · 7 articles · picked up over 6h · updated 19d ago
established
Left median spread 21/100

Framing runs from Left to Center-Right across 7 outlets.

Part of Ontario to move to permanent daylight time. Here’s where

6 outlets · 7 articles · picked up over 9h · updated 7d ago
established
Center median spread 21/100

Framing runs from Left to Center-Right across 6 outlets.

Former MP Chris Alexander drops out of Toronto's mayoral race

6 outlets · 8 articles · picked up over 2h · updated 14d ago
Center median spread 28/100

Framing runs from Center-Left to Right across 6 outlets.

Carney announces $1.2B for ocean conservation ahead of pipeline decision

4 outlets · 4 articles · picked up over 3h · updated 21d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 46/100

Framing runs from Center-Left to Right across 4 outlets.

Wrestler Benjamin Satterley, known as ‘Pac,’ dies at 40

4 outlets · 4 articles · picked up over 4h · updated 22d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 46/100

Framing runs from Center-Left to Right across 4 outlets.

Voting day in Alberta referendum - CTV News

3 outlets · 36 articles · picked up over 1d · updated 12h ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 7/100

Framing runs from Left to Center-Right across 3 outlets.

‘Extraordinary tragedy’: More about CFB Wainwright's live fire training operations - CTV News

2 outlets · 19 articles · picked up over 19h · updated 1d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 10/100

Framing runs from Center-Left to Right across 2 outlets.

Alberta First Nation taking Ottawa to court over West Coast pipeline

2 outlets · 2 articles · picked up over 1h · updated 12d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 75/100

Framing runs from Left to Center-Right across 2 outlets.

Carney just rewrote the rules for approving big projects. So why does a West Coast pipeline still need ‘national interest’ status?

2 outlets · 2 articles · picked up under 1h · updated 20d ago
Blindspot seed
Center-Left median spread 75/100

Framing runs from Center-Left to Right across 2 outlets.

Carney pledges $82-million to ocean monitoring initiative at UN

2 outlets · 2 articles · picked up under 1h · updated 27d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 75/100

Framing runs from Left to Center-Right across 2 outlets.

Canadians mark fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

12 outlets · 30 articles · picked up over 1d · updated 20d ago
established
Left median spread 21/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 12 outlets.

Trump says he wants potash from Belarus for ‘subtantially less’ than Canada

9 outlets · 10 articles · picked up over 6h · updated 29d ago
established
Center median spread 14/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 9 outlets.

A timeline for Pacific Link, the ‘national interest’ Alberta-B.C. pipeline plan

8 outlets · 11 articles · picked up over 17h · updated 18d ago
establishedCheckable dispute
Right median spread 26/100

Framing runs from Center to Right across 8 outlets.

West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest

8 outlets · 9 articles · picked up over 4h · updated 19d ago
Checkable dispute
Right median spread 26/100

Framing runs from Center to Right across 8 outlets.

How the NWT is marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

7 outlets · 8 articles · picked up over 8h · updated 21d ago
established
Center median spread 21/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 7 outlets.

U.S. food importer sues to block Trump’s new tariffs on Canada

6 outlets · 8 articles · picked up over 7h · updated 6h ago
established
Center median spread 24/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

Waymo to launch robotaxis in Toronto under pilot program for self-driving vehicles

6 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 2h · updated 4d ago
Center median spread 17/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

Carney’s Thanksgiving message directed at Alberta ahead of separation referendum

6 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 17h · updated 7d ago
established
Center median spread 17/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

The Latest: Homeland Security agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home

6 outlets · 9 articles · picked up over 11h · updated 8d ago
established
Center median spread 24/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

QuickQuotes: Leaders react as Parti Québécois forms minority government

6 outlets · 8 articles · picked up over 10h · updated 14d ago
established
Center median spread 12/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

Ottawa Senators name Thomas Chabot as captain

6 outlets · 7 articles · picked up over 5h · updated 21d ago
Center median spread 14/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

LNG Canada to go ahead with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. - Toronto Star

6 outlets · 8 articles · picked up over 7h · updated 21d ago
established
Center median spread 20/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

Carney tells NYT he studied risk of U.S.-led military action in Canada

6 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 13h · updated 27d ago
established
Center median spread 22/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 6 outlets.

Supreme Court will hear appeal of federal ban on single-use plastics

5 outlets · 5 articles · picked up over 4h · updated 5d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 25/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 5 outlets.

Poilievre heads to Detroit to make the case for ‘tariff-free auto pact’

5 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 5h · updated 7d ago
Blindspot seed
Right median spread 17/100

Framing runs from Center to Right across 5 outlets.

TC Energy announces Indigenous investment in Coastal GasLink

5 outlets · 5 articles · picked up over 3h · updated 7d ago
Blindspot seed
Left median spread 25/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 5 outlets.

Russian attacks kill 7 in Ukraine after Trump strikes diesel deal with Putin - Toronto Star

5 outlets · 5 articles · picked up over 7h · updated 10d ago
establishedBlindspot seed
Left median spread 30/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 5 outlets.

US hits International Criminal Court with sweeping sanctions as part of drive to dismantle tribunal

5 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 6h · updated 11d ago
establishedBlindspot seed
Center median spread 27/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 5 outlets.

Statistics Canada set to report September jobs data this morning

5 outlets · 6 articles · picked up over 4h · updated 11d ago
Blindspot seed
Center median spread 22/100

Framing runs from Left to Center across 5 outlets.

How a cluster is built

I.N.K. groups articles by their headlines. Each headline is reduced to its distinctive words (common words and words under three letters are dropped), and a new article joins an existing cluster when the overlap between the two sets of words — Jaccard similarity — reaches a threshold (by default 0.25) and the cluster was active within the last 24 hours (by default). Otherwise it starts a cluster of its own.

That method is simple and fully inspectable, and it has known limits: one story told in different words can be split across two clusters, and two different stories that share distinctive words can be merged into one. It does not read entities, dates or quoted figures. Treat a cluster as a strong lead on “the same event”, not a verdict.

The spread shown on each card is the 0–100 score of how far the scored articles sit from one another on the five-band scale (0 = no spread, 100 = a full left-to-right split). A cluster carried by fewer than six outlets is flagged as a blindspot seed: it may be a small story, or one only part of the press noticed.

How a cluster's lean is reported

The median lean is the middle band across the cluster, not an average. Averaging a bimodal cluster — half Left, half Right — would report a centre that nobody actually published. The spread line names the two ends of the range, so a tight cluster and a split one can never read the same. Bands are scored per article, not fixed to an outlet: the same newsroom can land in different bands on different stories.