Guides
Canadian Dental Care Plan: Who Is Eligible and How to Apply
The Canadian Dental Care Plan has four eligibility tests, a free application through My Service Canada Account or by phone, and a yearly renewal that ends the June 30 benefit period.
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Lucas A. Hughes
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Features
How a newsroom corrects an evolving story: a worked example
How a newsroom corrects an error in an evolving story, shown step by step through an invented example: evidence check, visible correction, alert repair and follow-up.
Rules
Election reporting problems: counts, audits and claims
Election reporting problems explained: why counts change after election night, what "100 percent precincts" means, and how audits, recounts and claims differ.
Guides
How to read an election results page without misreading the count
Read the election results page issuer, timestamp and status label before any margin, then follow the count through canvass, audit and certification.
Rules
International conflict reporting problems and fixes
Conflict reporting fixes for unattributed claims, recycled media, casualty totals, legal overreach, false balance, map certainty, document confusion, and risk.
Rules
Science reporting problems: How to check announcements
Science reporting problems often start when a proposal is presented as a result. Learn how to check status, comparisons, milestones, funding and updates.
Maintenance
Science announcement reporting checklist
Science announcement checklist for source status, methods, sample, comparison, uncertainty, funding, conflicts, data, practical readiness, headlines, and updates.
Guides
Science announcement reporting guide for daily news
Science announcement reporting guide: verify a claim, label its status and readiness, and track corrections so the story stays accurate as the record changes.
Maintenance
Public safety alert checklist: what to confirm before publishing
Public safety alert checklist for verifying sender, event, area, timing, expected impact, protective action, accessibility, updates, and cancellation.
Reviews
Hazard measures and public safety products compared
Hazard measures compared across earthquake magnitude and intensity, storm tracks and impacts, forecast probability, observations, watches, and warnings.
Rules
Special Counsel vs Attorney General: How US Federal Investigations Differ
Special counsel vs attorney general: how US federal investigations differ in appointment, scope, removal and reporting, plus a criteria table and shared limits.
Rules
What Is a Continuing Resolution? A US Government Shutdown Explainer
What is a continuing resolution? Learn how temporary federal funding works, how it prevents a shutdown, and what happens when it expires.
Guides
What Is a Rate Case? How US Utility Regulators Set Your Electric Rates
What is a rate case? It is a state commission review of a utility's request, and the test is whether the utility's return on equity lands in an allowed range.
Guides
Daily news explainers: How Chicago boil orders work
Daily news explainers: How Chicago issues and lifts boil orders, what residents should do, and why a water main break can trigger one.
Guides
How Phoenix and Los Angeles handle heat and water advisories
Phoenix and Los Angeles split heat and water warnings across county health, city water and utility desks, so readers must check two sources.
Rules
Public records and open meetings rules in California, Texas and New York
This latest guide compares the California Public Records Act, the Texas Public Information Act and New York FOIL, covering response clocks and main exemptions.
Guides
BLS CPI and BEA GDP Releases: What They Measure, When They Land and How to Read Them
The BLS CPI and BEA GDP releases explained: what each agency measures, when figures land, seasonal adjustment, real versus nominal, and why revisions happen.
Features
Cross-border trade and climate stories that reach US readers
Latest news on US-Canada trade and climate: energy, autos, agriculture, the International Joint Commission, USMCA rules, and border policy shifts.
Rules
Health news alert problems: how to read notice limits
Health news alert problems explained: read a notice’s category, evidence, scope, recall status and current instructions without overstating its claims.
Rules
Government reporting problems: how readers can check claims
Spot government reporting problems by checking proposals, votes, and spending stages against public records and dates to see what changed.
Rules
Live update problems and how to fix them
Live update problems explained: why a breaking news stream gets confusing, and the concrete fixes for chronology, timestamps, corrections, and closure.
Rules
Daily news explainer problems, and the fixes that hold
Daily news explainer problems diagnosed with practical fixes for weak scope, buried answers, stale facts, missing context, overload, false balance, and poor updates.
Guides
Breaking news updates and timelines: a reader's guide
Breaking news updates guide for readers: how to read a live page, its timestamps, status labels, pinned summary and timeline, and how corrections show up.
Reviews
Daily explainer formats compared, and when each one fits
Six daily explainer formats do different work. Match the container to the reader's question, then count what it costs to keep a recurring series accurate.
Maintenance
Daily explainer story-selection checklist
Daily explainer selection checklist for novelty, verification, consequence, reader need, scope, context, uncertainty, format, timing, resources, and update plans.
Reviews
Government decision documents compared: what each one actually decides
Government decision documents compared by status and effect, including bills, laws, rules, orders, resolutions, guidance, budgets, contracts, and notices.
Guides
Health alert reporting guide for daily news
Health alert reporting guide for daily news: how agencies classify notices, what they establish, and what reporters should verify before publication.
Reviews
Health evidence and alert types compared
Health evidence types compared across surveillance signals, case reports, observational studies, clinical trials, diagnoses, advisories, and recalls.
Guides
What a public meeting packet can tell you about a vote
A public meeting packet can show what officials considered, which text was adopted, how the vote was recorded, and what records to check after the meeting.