ABOUT
About CanadianWorldReport
A Canadian view of world events, and what they do to all of us.
CanadianWorldReport is a free public-interest news site reporting world events and what they do to the people who never chose to be part of them. It covers conflict, sanctions, energy and food from a Canadian vantage point, and it is built so that every sentence on it can be checked by the reader rather than taken on trust. There is no advertising, no subscription and no mailing list. Everything here is open to read.
The gap this site exists to fill
Conflict reporting stops at the event. Market commentary starts at the price. The distance between those two is where an ordinary household actually lives, and almost nobody reports it.
So every piece here answers one question: what does this do to what an ordinary person pays, eats, or relies on, and how confident can we be about that. If the chain from an event to a household cannot be traced, it is somebody else's story and we do not run it. A piece that traces the chain and finds it stops short of your bill is a legitimate piece, because that is also a finding.
What we cover
| Beat | What it reaches |
|---|---|
| Conflict and security | Energy prices, defence spending, migration, insurance |
| Sanctions and export controls | What you can buy, what it costs, which employers lose contracts |
| Energy and chokepoints | Fuel, heating, electricity, and the inflation that follows them |
| Food and fertilizer | The grocery bill |
Who this is written for
Anyone who wants to know what is happening in the world that reaches their life, and who does not have the time, the inclination or the appetite to assemble it from primary documents themselves. That is most people, most of the time, and it is not a criticism of any of them.
The audience also includes whatever retrieval system a reader asks. A fact a machine cannot reach is a fact the reader does not get, whether or not anyone intended to hide it, and we have watched primary government sources fail that test without anybody restricting anything. So every claim on this site carries a machine-legible status label, every source address is printed in full as copyable text, and the structured markup on every page is written into the HTML itself rather than injected by a script that a plain fetch would never run.
What it costs, and who pays
It is free. There is no advertising, no payment, no gate and no email collection, and nothing published here is placed or sponsored by anybody. There is no mailing list to join and no algorithm being courted. The site is found through search, through direct links, and through people passing pieces to each other.
How to check us
Read the verification methodology, which sets out the five claim labels, the classification every number carries, and the two tests every source passes through. Read the corrections policy, which sets out what happens when that fails. Read the editorial standards, which set out the sentences we do not write and the subjects we refuse to cover. Then check an article against the addresses printed at the foot of it, and write to us on the contact page if it does not hold up.