Centre-right estimate · not a score

National Post

🇨🇦CA · newspaper · independent · nationalpost.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1998-10-27 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada no source on file
Funding	Advertising- and subscription-funded newspaper published by Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (publicly traded, Toronto Stock Exchange: PNC.A/PNC.B). Majority equity (63.1%) is held by Chatham Asset Management, a U.S. hedge fund which, under Canadian media-ownership rules, may elect only one-third of Postmedia's board and is stated not to directly control operations.
Reach	Print circulation reported as 142,509 copies (Tuesday-Friday) and 132,116 copies (Saturday) as of March 2013. No more recent circulation or reach figure was found/verified.
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Framing of the sequence

Canada's action framed as response, with the US measure named first in law and rate — in 1 article

Which figure was chosen

gives the Canadian tariffs as 28 billion dollars, the same figure as the U.S. measure they answer — in 1 article

Which measure was chosen

$28 billion of US imports, the same figure it gives for the American tariffs — in 1 article

Who is named as acting

Trump named as the actor imposing the tariffs, in an active verb — in 1 article

From 42 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 2 disputed1 unverified
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Postmedia Network Canada Corp.	company	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Chatham Asset Management	company	63.10%	—	equity	—	link
Allianz Global Investors	company	17%	—	equity	—	link
Leon Cooperman	person	13.30%	—	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Rob Roberts

Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-chief of the National Post since 2019.

Journalists

John Ivison

Political Columnist / Ottawa Bureau Chief · federal politics · Ottawa

Ottawa-based political columnist and Ottawa bureau chief for the National Post since joining its launch team in 1998; author of a 2019 biography of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Barbara Kay

Columnist

Columnist for the National Post since 2003.

Terence Corcoran

Columnist and Comment Editor, Financial Post · business · economic policy

Columnist and comment editor for the Financial Post section of the National Post, with a career in Canadian business journalism dating to 1969.

Diane Francis

Editor-at-Large · business · economics

Editor-at-large for the National Post since 1998 and former editor of the Financial Post (1991-1998).

Raymond J. de Souza

Columnist

Columnist for the National Post; also an ordained Catholic priest and economics lecturer at Queen's University.