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Toronto Star

Daily newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fact-Checks

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Dec 21, 2025
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is trump the most documented liar in history

Measured against the modern record-keeping of journalists and fact‑checkers, Donald J. Trump is extraordinarily well documented for making false or misleading public statements: fact‑checking projects...

Oct 19, 2025
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Where does money go from the speed cameras in Ontario

Ontario municipalities historically used automated speed enforcement (ASE) to issue tickets and retain revenue for municipal purposes such as budget stabilization, processing costs, and safety initiat...

Jan 13, 2026
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Laura Robinson Canadian sports journalist

Laura Robinson is a Canadian sports journalist and author best known for three decades of investigative work exposing sexual abuse and racial and gender discrimination in Canadian sport, including a 1...

Dec 5, 2025

What were the most fact-checked false claims by Donald Trump between 2017 and 2021?

Fact-checkers documented thousands of false or misleading claims by Donald Trump between 2017 and 2021: The Washington Post’s database recorded 30,573 such claims across his first term, an average of ...

Nov 13, 2025

Examples of Donald Trump's election falsehoods in 2025

Donald Trump made a series of false or misleading public claims about elections and related topics in 2025, drawn from fact-checking compilations and episode-specific reviews; multiple independent out...

Jan 13, 2026

Which organizations have tracked Trump’s false or misleading claims since 2016 and how do their counts differ?

Several established newsrooms and independent fact‑checking groups have systematically tracked false or misleading statements by Donald Trump since 2016; the most cited numeric tallies come from The W...

Jan 11, 2026

Which organizations tracked and fact-checked Donald Trump's claims during his presidency and how did their counts differ?

Three major, publicly referenced fact‑checking operations tracked Donald Trump’s statements during his presidency, but they produced very different tallies because they used different scopes and metho...

Jan 5, 2026

How many false or misleading claims has fact-checkers attributed to Donald Trump overall?

The most commonly cited aggregate is that The Washington Post’s Fact Checker recorded 30,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump across his four-year presidency, a figure echoed widely in repor...

Jan 3, 2026

how many lies have trump said

The short, evidence-based answer: fact‑checking organizations have documented tens of thousands of false or misleading statements by Donald Trump—most prominently The Washington Post’s tally of 30,573...

Dec 1, 2025

Which food categories and brands in Canada are most commonly linked to harmful additives?

Health Canada permits hundreds of additives but controls use by food category through the Lists of Permitted Food Additives and the Food and Drug Regulations; additives most often discussed as “harmfu...

Nov 29, 2025

How do rates of documented falsehoods compare between modern presidents (e.g., Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton)?

Independent fact‑check tallies and compilations show Donald Trump far outpace other recent presidents in documented false or misleading statements; The Washington Post counted 30,573 such claims in hi...

Nov 25, 2025

How does CNN’s or PolitiFact’s total of Trump falsehoods compare to other major politicians?

Major fact‑checking tallies show Donald Trump far outpaces other politicians in documented false or misleading claims: PolitiFact’s list of Trump “false” rulings is extensive (multiple years of entrie...

Nov 24, 2025

How often has fact-checking found falsehoods in statements by Donald Trump?

Fact‑checking organizations and news outlets have documented thousands of false or misleading statements by Donald Trump across multiple years; for example, The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims...

Nov 21, 2025

Were there documented cases where policy decisions by Carney (2013–2020) directly benefited organizations connected to him or his advisors?

Available reporting shows scrutiny and allegations about Mark Carney’s business ties and the potential for policy decisions to benefit companies connected to him, but the publicly released ethics disc...