Audit Trail · Article #2509139

Unemployment ticked up to 6.7% in October, says StatCan

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

published 2026-11-06T15:28:59 · ingested 2026-11-06T11:19:49.782288

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: 0.00 vv3

triggers: none — NO SIGNAL DETECTED (not a centrist finding)

      computed at 2026-11-06T11:19:49.782288
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

CENTER score: 0.000 confidence: 57% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-11-06T11:21:50.968291-05:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER score: 0.000

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1

Tier-1 at: 2026-11-08T09:23:24.776519

Tier-2 at: —

AI analyzed: ✗

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: —

Province: —

Scope: unmappable

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (1)

true Canada's unemployment rate increased 0.2 percentage points to 6.7 per cent last month as more people looked for work — especially younger Canadians.

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

        heuristic-v1 · 2026-11-06T11:19:49.797104
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Unemployment ticked up to 6.7% in October, says StatCan 2 articles across outlets

      clustered at 2026-11-06T11:19:49.789679
    

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)

2026-11-06T11:19:49.782288 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": 4
}

2026-11-06T11:21:50.968291 bias_v2_scored

payload

{
  "confidence": 0.573,
  "ensemble_band": "center",
  "ensemble_score": 0.0,
  "label": "center",
  "model": "valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3",
  "score": 0.0
}

Every signal computed about this article, with timestamps. Source for the transparency promise behind our methodology.