Audit Trail · Article #2544605

90-year-old veteran selling poppies says he was ‘harassed’ by Montreal metro security

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

published 2026-11-11T03:26:25 · ingested 2026-11-10T22:56:09.568478

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: 0.20 confidence: 60% vv3

The piece portrays the veteran sympathetically and frames him as a victim of harassment, indicating a mild positive bias.

Trigger phrases: harassedveteranselling poppies

      computed at 2026-11-10T23:24:26.598087
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

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

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1+full

Tier-1 at: 2026-11-10T23:24:26.598087

Tier-2 at: 2026-11-10T23:24:26.598087

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-11-10T23:24:26.598087

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: CA

Province: QC

Scope: provincial

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (1)

mixed 90-year-old Carl Andersen has been selling poppies in the Montreal metro since 2007, but he says he recently ran into a bit of an obstacle.

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

        heuristic-v1 · 2026-11-10T22:56:09.593164
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

90-year-old veteran selling poppies says he was ‘harassed’ by Montreal metro security 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-11-10T22:56:09.582668
    

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)

2026-11-10T22:56:09.568478 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
}

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