Audit Trail · Article #2497567

Too broke to leave: Alberta domestic abuse victims trapped by rising cost of living

Source article ↗ · Global News · outlet lean: center · owner: Corus Entertainment (corporate)

published 2026-11-04T22:41:08 · ingested 2026-11-04T17:47:43.010024

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

LEFT score: -1.00 vv3

triggers: food bank(-0.15×1)

      computed at 2026-11-04T17:47:43.010024
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

ML scoring pending — backlog worker processes ~50 articles per ingest cycle.

Analysis Tier

Tier: pending

Tier-1 at: —

Tier-2 at: —

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-11-04T18:38:35.651374

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: AB

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (1)

mostly_true The Alberta Council of Women's Shelters said since 2019, the cost of housing, groceries and gas have all grown more than 30 per cent while food bank visits are up by 134 per cent.

Rule-based: source_credibility=True, has_stat=True, hedged=True

        heuristic-v1 · 2026-11-04T17:47:43.025204
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Too broke to leave: Alberta domestic abuse victims trapped by rising cost of living 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-11-04T17:47:43.017090
    

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 (1 event)

2026-11-04T17:47:43.010024 ingested

payload

{
  "bias": {
    "band": "left",
    "heuristic_version": "v3",
    "rationale": "triggers: food bank(-0.15\u00d71)",
    "score": -1.0,
    "signal_detected": true
  },
  "source_id": 4
}

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