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I’m on vacation so posting will resume on June 2. In the meantime, if you spot any errors or corrections of note, please email them to me.  Report an error

A story Saturday about Home Hardware signing on with Jim Balsillie’s bid to bring an NHL team to Hamilton got the number of people employed by the chain wrong. Home Hardware has 18,000 workers, not six million. We apologize for the error. Link Thanks, Eric!  Report an error

An interview with the editor of French Vogue, Carine Roitfeld, said the magazine had recently featured a series of photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco. We had the wrong Monegasque; it was Princess Stephanie (Fashion’s sharpest operator, 20 May, page 4, G2). Link  Report an error

Convicted multiple murderer Gregory J. McMaster has complained about an article published in the Toronto Sun on June 4, 2008, under the headline “Serial killer wants clean slate.” McMaster is serving time in Fenbrook Institute in Gravenhurst for killing three Canadians and a Minnesota police officer in 1978. He denies he is a serial killer [...]

A May 16 article about an upcoming biopic of Frank Sinatra included an incorrect photo. The photo labelled as a picture of Frank Sinatra was in fact the Toronto-based Frank Sinatra tribute artist, Rick Sonata. Link  Report an error

The Media Equation column on Monday, about the future of The New York Times Company, referred incorrectly to the company’s statements on expectations for the second quarter. Company officials have said that they believe the rate of decline in advertising revenue in the second quarter will generally be similar to that of the first; they [...]

‘Bright Star’: In an article in Monday’s Calendar about director Jane Campion and her film “Bright Star,” a descriptive clause was misplaced. “A person with a lively mind and a fine sense of humor” was intended to apply to Campion, not to a camera crew member.  Report an error

An article on Monday about resistance by prosecutors to agree to DNA tests for prison inmates misstated a point made by prosecutors in the case of Kenneth Reed, a Louisiana inmate who was convicted of rape and is seeking such a test. The prosecutors have argued that Mr. Reed’s identity is not at issue in [...]

Seymour Hersh has come out swinging against false reports claiming that he told an Arab TV station that Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered the assassination of for Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Raw Story has a report in which the Pulitzer winner decries articles that completely fabricated comments attributed to him. Raw Story notes [...]

The Washington Times made an embarrassing mistake on its website last week. This picture pretty much speaks for itself: Yes, those are the Obama kids. No, they weren’t involved in the story. After being spotted by one blog, the image quickly spread. Some people said it was an example of the Times’ right-wing bias. The [...]

Editor’s note: A story in last Sunday’s Money & Careers section on how the recession is affecting family life said that Ariel Ayanna is considering becoming a stay-at-home father for a year. After the story ran, Ayanna, who lost his corporate law job last year, said he never meant to suggest that, and is not [...]

ON March 15, in the Sunday Mail, we published photographs which were said to be of Ms Hanson. It is clear that the pictures published are not of Pauline Hanson. We made a mistake publishing those pictures. We apologise to Ms Hanson for the hurt and embarrassment caused by the publication. We have learnt a [...]

In her weekend column, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd included a sentence that later turned out to be taken almost verbatim from Talking Points Memo. (Compare here.) She failed to include any attribution, and this caused TPM and others to accuse her of plagiarism. Dowd emailed a response to the allegations to the Nytpicker [...]

Let’s be clear: the rate at which sunlight delivers energy to the Earth’s surface should be expressed in terawatts. Our “For the record” of 25 April (p 25) not only contained a nonsense of its own (suggesting that a terawatt is different from a terajoule per second), but also failed to address our original blooper, [...]

DOHERTY ALIVE: An article in Crossroads on Thursday incorrectly described Delaware athlete Billy Doherty. He is alive. Link  Report an error

There are approximately 74,000 wind turbines currently operating in Europe, not 1,700 as was stated in a May 11 article about wind power. A May 12 article about wind power incorrectly stated the current estimated cost of a new nuclear plant is $7,000 per megawatt of installed capacity. In fact, it is $7,000 per kilowatt. [...]

City Councilor Andy Holcombe was inaccurately quoted in Wednesday’s Enterprise-Record. Holcombe said he was concerned moving marijuana plants indoors could create a fire hazard because of the lights required. Link  Report an error

In Monday’s Spectator, the Ginger Cake with Macerated Fruit and Lemon Mascarpone incorrectly listed 2 cups of cooked penne pasta as an ingredient. It should have said rice pasta. The recipe is for Celiac Awareness Month.We apologize for the error. Link  Report an error

Bunker bungle: Jarrahdale resident Colin Abbott paid $1500 – not $15,000 as we incorrectly reported – for two concrete pipes he used to build his backyard bushfire bunker (Backyard bunkers to beat fires, page 12, May 12).  Report an error

An item in the PriceWatch page in yesterday s edition, concerning value for money on tuna, made reference to the Spanish stealing Irish tuna. No Spanish fishermen have been charged with illegal fishing of tuna in Irish waters. Link  Report an error

In our article, ‘Taboo-buster: the dark side of Jimmy Carr’ (18 November 2008), we wrote that Jimmy Carr’s mother had divorced his father seven years before her death. We have been asked by Jim Carr, Jimmy Carr’s father, to correct this. They had an amicable separation but never divorced. Jim Carr has also asked us [...]

An article about Adam Carroll, A1 Grand Prix championship driver, published online under the heading Adam Carroll aiming for formula one after A1GP success, 5 May, failed to acknowledge that the quotes from Carroll used in the piece came from an interview by Will Buxton published in the 4 May issue of GPWeek, an online [...]

Barneys New York said it has no plans to close any flagship stores and it hasn’t engaged in any conversations with its landlords about closures. A Marketplace article Wednesday, for which Barneys couldn’t be reached to comment, said the company was seeking to break leases on two stores, including the Shoppes at the Palazzo in [...]

Yesterday’s rave review of the new Star Trek film referred to the “hateful Klingon Nero” (Take it to the bridge, page 9, Film & Music). Numerous readers got in touch to say how very wrong this was. Here is an excerpt from one of the emails that corrected us in a stern yet graceful way: [...]

A story in yesterday’s Telegram & Gazette incorrectly reported the parents of Jeffrey B. Mullan, who was named acting executive director of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, still lived in Worcester. Both parents are deceased. Link Thanks, Heather!  Report an error