What agenda do you think Costas Paris of the Wall Street Journal is pushing here?

There doesn't need to be a hidden agenda—they simply want eye-catching headlines to drive clicks to their site.

"Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year" -- I guess that's somewhat more eye-catching than "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative", but not by much.

It's therefore very frustrating that Google search on factual data is entirely dominated by proprietary data sources like statistia (https://www.statista.com/), whereas the sources are mostly open for free access somewhere lacking the necessary treaks to make them available.

>Cherry picking data to fit your point is stats 101 for "journalists"

What "point"? Shipping rates are down 60% in a year. That is a fact.

I guess business reporting is too complicated for some people here.

I didn't know shipping rates were falling, let alone falling this much. So this is news for me.