This article, written by Dave Cooper, has statistics listed for flights from Canada to the United States. The problem is he does not attribute the source of this data. In order for this information to be able to be fact-checked he would have to list where he is receiving the numbers from. He lists his email, so contacting to ask about this glaring omission is possible, but the average reader will not do this. Unfortunately, he does not attribute any findings throughout the whole article. I would say this story fails the accuracy test simply because I am unsure of where he is getting his information. He also mentions a new non-stop flight to Liberia, which does not make any sense to me. A direct flight from Edmonton to Liberia?Without accurate referencing a person has to assume the article is not based on fact. It is important to check whether what you are reading is fact without blindly assuming it is correct. The internet has many unreliable writers on it and fact-checking is more important than it has ever been.
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