HOW WE WORK
Editorial standards
What we publish, what we refuse to publish, and the sentences we do not write.
These are the editorial standards every CanadianWorldReport article is written to. They cover three things: the sentences we do not write, the advice we never give, and the subjects we refuse to cover. The refusals are as much a part of the standard as anything we publish, and they are set out here in full rather than left for a reader to infer.
We report what happened. We do not predict and we do not judge
Every published sentence has to state something that has already happened and is sourced. Forecast verbs in our own voice, opinion markers, implied instruction, market direction verbs that smuggle a judgement, and intensifiers that grade an event for the reader are all out. Prices rose, fell, or did not move. The number and the date are reported and the sentence stops there. If a number is remarkable, the number says so without our help.
Where a link between two events is inference rather than a documented statement, the two events are reported in sequence with their dates and no connecting verb, and the reader draws the line. Where reasoning is genuinely useful it is labelled as reasoning rather than presented as measurement.
Attributed prediction is a fact. Adopted prediction is not
That a forecaster published a forecast is something that demonstrably happened, so it is publishable. The forecaster, the date and the number are all named. What never happens is the forecast being adopted as our own view, because a prediction cannot be checked, and neither can an opinion. Publishing either would invite a reader to trust us instead of the evidence, which is the transaction every other outlet offers and the one this site is refusing.
No investment, legal or security advice
We state a market fact and stop. No recommendations, no positions, no account of what an event means for a portfolio, no tickers presented as ideas. Every page carries a line saying so. This is an editorial standard and a regulatory one at the same time: advising on securities in Ontario generally requires registration with the Ontario Securities Commission unless an exemption applies, and we stay well clear of that line rather than near it.
What we cover
Four beats, each chosen because the chain from the event to a household can be traced.
| Beat | Scope | What it reaches |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and security | Iran and its adversaries, Russia and Ukraine, Saudi posture, the crossovers between them | Energy prices, defence spending, migration, insurance |
| Sanctions and export controls | OFAC, the Entity List, EU, UK and UN designations, procurement routes | What you can buy, what it costs, which employers lose contracts |
| Energy and chokepoints | Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, the Bosporus, Kerch, pipelines, storage, refinery outages | Fuel, heating, electricity, and the inflation that follows them |
| Food and fertilizer | Grain corridors, Black Sea shipping, potash and nitrogen, drought and harvest failure | The grocery bill, which is the most direct chain of the four and the least covered |
What we refuse to cover, and why
Domestic Canadian politics. Elections. Culture war. Personalities. Any subject where the piece would be read as picking a side rather than tracing a chain.
The refusal is not a claim that those subjects are unimportant. It is that covering them costs the non-aligned position that makes everything else here checkable. A reader who can predict our conclusion from our masthead has no reason to read our evidence, and the evidence is the entire product.
Free, and paid for by nobody
There is no advertising, no subscription, no payment, no gate and no email collection. Nothing on this site is placed, sponsored or supplied by anyone with an interest in what it says. The standard that follows from that is a short one: no story is worth more to us than another, so the only thing left to sort them by is whether the chain to a household can be traced.
How the tracing is done is set out in our verification methodology, and what happens when it fails is set out in our corrections policy.