Healthcare entity
All 2 tracked stories fall under one category: regulation. Doug Ford is most often covered alongside Empire Club of Canada, which appears in 1 of these 2 stories. Source depth averages 2 original sources per story, versus 3.6 across the same-window beat baseline.
Last mentioned: Aug 14, 2026
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Coverage balance Negative coverage leads. Negative coverage exceeds positive coverage by 50 percentage points.
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All 2 tracked stories fall under one category: regulation. Doug Ford is most often covered alongside Empire Club of Canada, which appears in 1 of these 2 stories. Source depth averages 2 original sources per story, versus 3.6 across the same-window beat baseline. The 5.5 average consequence score is below the beat benchmark of 5.9 in the same window. Doug Ford appears in 2 tracked Healthcare stories published from March 11, 2026 through March 16, 2026.
Computed from the 2 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 123 Healthcare stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Doug Ford. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
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