Audit Trail · Article #2347573

Man dead after shooting at west Edmonton trade school: EPS

Source article ↗ · Edmonton Journal · outlet lean: center-right · owner: Postmedia (corporate)

published 2026-10-16T20:26:05.372205 · ingested 2026-10-16T16:26:05.372205

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: -0.20 vv3

The article is neutral in tone and does not include any overtly biased language or editorial commentary that would indicate a strong left or right bias.

Trigger phrases: police responseinvestigation ongoing

      computed at 2026-10-16T17:22:51.701271
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

RIGHT score: 0.259 confidence: 37% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-10-16T17:14:17.649326-04:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER RIGHT score: 0.259

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1+full

Tier-1 at: 2026-10-16T17:22:51.701271

Tier-2 at: 2026-10-16T17:22:51.701271

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-10-16T17:22:51.701271

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: AB

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (2)

unverified A man died after being shot at a west Edmonton trade school.

        fact_v1 · 2026-10-16T17:23:00.588504
      

unverified Police arrived on the scene just before 8:30 AM on Friday.

        fact_v1 · 2026-10-16T17:23:00.588504
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Police scenes in west Edmonton, Parkland County after deadly college shooting 2 articles across outlets

      clustered at 2026-10-16T16:25:53.901032
    

Governance — C.R.E.E.D.

A+

overall grade

100.0

By Category

Accountability {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Environmental {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Fairness {'events': 3, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'below minimum volume (3 events; minimum 100 for a non-provisional score)', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Privacy {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Safety {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Transparency {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Ethics audit by C.R.E.E.D. Institute · 3 events tracked

Raw Audit Trail (2 events)

2026-10-16T16:26:05.372205 ingested

payload

{
  "bias": {
    "band": "center",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: none \u2014 NO SIGNAL DETECTED (not a centrist finding)",
    "score": 0.0,
    "signal_detected": false
  },
  "source_id": 13758
}

2026-10-16T17:14:17.649326 bias_v2_scored

payload

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  "confidence": 0.37,
  "ensemble_band": "center-right",
  "ensemble_score": 0.259,
  "label": "right",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": 0.259
}

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