Audit Trail · Article #2442027

News of the day: Labour board: wrong to discipline officer for giving middle finger to federal buildings; New round of CRA layoffs targeting 260 employees; Defence workers' union questions pushback against event to honour Wainwright fire dead and injured

Source article ↗ · Ottawa Citizen · outlet lean: center · owner: Postmedia (corporate)

published 2026-10-29T22:21:15 · ingested 2026-10-29T18:30:11.925029

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

LEFT score: -1.00 confidence: 80% vv3

triggers: union(-0.40×3)

Trigger phrases: LABOUR BOARD: wrong to discipline officerNew round of CRA layoffs

      computed at 2026-10-29T18:30:11.925029
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

CENTER score: 0.000 confidence: 47% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-10-29T18:36:08.217663-04:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER LEFT score: -0.500

Analysis Tier

Tier: pending

Tier-1 at: —

Tier-2 at: —

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-10-29T18:45:21.926939

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: ON

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (0)

No claims extracted yet.

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

News of the day: Labour board: wrong to discipline officer for giving middle finger to federal buildings; New round of CRA layoffs targeting 260 employees; Defence workers' union questions pushback against event to honour Wainwright fire dead and injured 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-10-29T18:30:12.117615
    

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)

2026-10-29T18:30:11.925029 ingested

payload

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  "bias": {
    "band": "left",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: union(-0.40\u00d73)",
    "score": -1.0,
    "signal_detected": true
  },
  "source_id": 595
}

2026-10-29T18:36:08.217663 bias_v2_scored

payload

{
  "confidence": 0.471,
  "ensemble_band": "center-left",
  "ensemble_score": -0.5,
  "label": "center",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": 0.0
}

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