Editorial standards and corrections
These standards guide how Canada Showcase selects, prepares and maintains its reporting. Updated September 23, 2026.
Evidence and attribution
Use accessible original reporting or primary documents, not search snippets alone. Identify the source of a claim and distinguish reported facts from opinion, allegations, estimates and forecasts. Headlines must reflect what the evidence supports. A press release represents its issuer; a claim by a political party or business is attributed rather than treated as independently verified.
Meaningful context
Preserve the date of the event or reporting period as well as the article’s publication date. Explain whether a policy is proposed, announced, enacted or in effect. Avoid converting estimates into guarantees, diagnoses into newly acquired infections, loans into grants, or planned funding into money already spent. When details are unavailable, say what remains unknown.
Assisted drafting and editorial responsibility
Canada Showcase uses AI tools to help prepare some source-based drafts. Articles that include AI-generated writing carry a disclosure. The publication remains responsible for the result. Drafts must be checked against sources, including names, dates, figures and qualifications, before publication. A tool’s output is not an independent source and does not replace editorial judgment.
Original reporting and source-based briefs
Our briefs explain information from credited reporting and public documents in our own words. We link to the original and do not present another newsroom’s reporting as our own fieldwork. Quotations must be accurate, limited and attributed. We do not reproduce full third-party articles or use a paywall bypass as a source-gathering method.
Images and rights
Photographs must be relevant and have an accurate caption, alternative text, credit and source link. File and illustrative images are labelled so they cannot be mistaken for the reported event. Credits identify a photographer or agency when known. Attribution alone does not confer reproduction rights; applicable licences and permissions must be respected. Rights holders can raise a concern through Contact.
Requesting a correction
Use the corrections form with the article URL, the passage you dispute, your suggested correction and supporting evidence. We assess the request against source material and may ask for clarification. A disagreement with an opinion is different from a factual error. We do not promise a particular response time or outcome.
Corrections, updates and complaints
A substantive factual correction should include a dated note describing what changed. Newly available information should be identified as an update rather than silently presented as part of the original report. If you believe a request was not addressed, use the general contact form with the earlier correspondence and explain what remains unresolved.
Advertising and conflicts
Paid placements and sponsored content must be clearly identified. Advertising does not purchase editorial conclusions. Material relationships relevant to a story should be disclosed. We do not invent traffic figures, endorsements, specialist qualifications or author identities.