CTV News
CTV News is the news division of CTV, Canada's largest privately owned television network, operated by Bell Media. Its flagship program CTV National News has long ranked among the country's most-watched newscasts, and its website provides national and local coverage from newsrooms across Canada. Its reporting is generally regarded as mainstream and centrist.
CTV News front page, right now
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Is CTV News left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists CTV News as Center within Canada's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side. In Canada, CBC News and Toronto Star are listed as Left-leaning, while National Post is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open CTV News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read CTV News beside another title from Canada and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Broadcast newsrooms build around what can be shown and who can be booked, so CTV News's online front page tends to track its on-air running order — watch which stories carry video and which are text-only. Because CTV News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning Canada title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
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