Ethics and standards
How Corridor 99 reports, sources, corrects and labels its work, including how AI is used.
If it’s on Corridor 99, someone checked it. This page explains what that means in practice.
Sourcing and verification
- Every fact we publish, including addresses, opening hours, prices, distances, dates, populations and council decisions, comes from a source we have looked at, such as an official website, a public record, a business’s own site or listing, or published reporting. Those sources are listed at the end of each piece.
- If we cannot verify something, we leave it out.
- Places in map guides are checked to confirm they are open, using their own website, phone line or an official listing, within 30 days before publishing. Each entry shows a “Last checked” date.
- We do not rank places by their Google or review-site ratings.
- We only quote people when the quote is copied word for word from a published source, which we credit and link. We do not invent quotes, people, places, events or numbers.
- Our byline is an organisation, so we never claim first-person experience. You will not read “we tried” or “on our visit” here. Our opinions are the publication’s, and we give the checkable reasons behind them: what’s on the menu, the hours, the setting, the history, who runs it.
- For safety topics such as wildfire, evacuations, avalanche conditions and road closures, we point you to the official source first (BC Wildfire Service, DriveBC, Avalanche Canada, Environment Canada, local governments) and do not paraphrase live emergency information.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix it and say so. Every article and guide has an updates log at the end. A correction note says what was wrong, what is right and when it was fixed. We do not quietly change facts. Minor fixes to spelling or formatting that do not change meaning are not logged.
To report an error, use the contact form and include the page address and what you believe is wrong. We aim to review correction requests promptly.
How we use AI
Corridor 99 uses AI tools to help draft content. In plain terms:
- Drafts are AI-assisted. An AI model helps research and write first drafts from sources we have gathered.
- A person edits and approves everything. No piece is published without human review.
- Every draft keeps a fact-check trail. Each factual claim is tied to the source it came from, and claims that cannot be matched to a source are cut.
- Sources are listed on the page, so you can check our work.
- Corrections are logged as described above, whether the error came from a person or a tool.
- No invented experience. AI drafts are not allowed to claim that anyone visited, ate, hiked or tried anything.
- Photos are real and free-licensed. Photographs come from openly licensed sources such as Wikimedia Commons and are credited with the photographer, licence and source link.
- AI images are only illustrations. We use AI-generated images only for clearly labelled illustrations, such as section graphics or diagrams, and never as a realistic image of a real place, trail, event, person or news situation.
Independence
Corridor 99 is published by Granny Panties Media. Editorial decisions about what to cover and what to recommend are made on editorial grounds. Businesses cannot pay to be included in, or kept out of, a guide or a news story, and advertisers do not see or approve coverage before it is published. If Corridor 99 or its publisher has a relationship with a business we write about, we disclose it in the piece.
Sponsored content and advertising
We carry display advertising, including Google AdSense, and may publish sponsored content. Sponsored content is always labelled “Sponsored” at the top, names the sponsor, carries links marked as sponsored and attributes the sponsor’s claims to the sponsor. Sponsored content never appears in The Sound, our news report. Full details are in our sponsored content policy.