Some information, including a quote, from The Gulf News appeared without proper attribution in a story about Newfoundland’s first porcupine in the Oct. 27 National Post. The Post regrets the oversight. The offending story is online and doesn’t include this “clarification.” It also doesn’t include any credit or attribution to the Gulf News. The Gulf [...]
Due to unnecessary fiddling by the editor-in-chief, a word in Gary Clement’s Week in Review cartoon was changed on Saturday. The word slán, Irish for goodbye, was replaced by sláinte, Irish for cheers. This change partly ruined the joke. The editor apologizes to our readers, Irish people and Mr. Clement. Link Thanks, Morgan! Report an [...]
The court elimination of Phizer’s Norvasc patent saved Ratiopharm about $170-million a year. Due to an editing error, the wrong figure appeared in The Price Is Wrong by Aidan Hollis in the Financial Post on Tuesday. Link Thanks, Morgan! Report an error
A brief in World Report yesterday incorrectly depicted U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell with a photograph of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. The Post regrets the error. Link Does that mean they confused the two men? Or that the photo somehow depicted Mitchell in a strange way? Report an error
A photo caption on a World page Monday mischaracterized the exchange between two people during a demonstration on Sunday in East Jerusalem. The masked Palestinian and Orthodox Israeli Jew, a member of Neturei Karta, a fringe anti-Zionist bloc, were in alliance, not opposition. Link Report an error
James Elliott Coyne, a former governor of the Bank of Canada, is still very much alive and well. Incorrect information appeared in a column on March 16. The National Post regrets the error. Link Report an error
Earlier this week, news started spreading via both mainstream media and on Twitter that Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot had died. Not true. And after the correct news started making its way around, people started pointing fingers. First off, here are a couple of the mistaken stories, as presented in a good post by Montreal blogger [...]
A story that ran in the National Post yesterday incorrectly suggested that Ehud Telem was a broker in an alleged Ponzi scheme. Mr. Telem was not named or alleged to be a broker in the final report issued by the court-appointed receiver. The Post regrets the error. Link No apology? Report an error
Canwest News Service described Helmut Oberlander as a “Nazi collaborator” in a story about a Nov. 18 court ruling that ordered the federal Cabinet to reconsider revoking his citizenship. Neither the Canadian government nor the Federal Court has stated that Oberlander was a collaborator. A judge ruled in 2000 that Oberlander worked, lived, and travelled [...]
A Howard Levitt column in the Financial Post on Wednesday regarding Kelly McDougald, the former chief executive of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., said the Ontario government should be “suing her for fraud for her own expense account abuse.” However, no evidence has arisen of abuse in Ms. McDougald’s expense account and the Post [...]
In last Saturday’s Post Homes, the cover story about Peter Freedand the Fashion House development incorrectly said his father hadp assed away. Mr. Freed Sr. is very much still with us. We apologize for the error. Link Yes, there’s a typo in the correction. Report an error
This was published on the National Post’s NP Editors blog this evening: Today, a Financial Post reporter responded unprofessionally to another Twitter user on his personal Twitter account. While the remarks were made on the reporter’s personal Twitter account, the conversation first began when the reporter was acting in his capacity as a reporter for [...]
Cathy Carretta was murdered but she was not among the women killed at Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. Incorrect information appeared in a photo caption yesterday. The Post regrets the error. Link Report an error
A story on residential schools payments that appeared in yesterday’s National Post, and was provided by the Canwest News Service, incorrectly attributed quotes to Brenda Reynolds. All of the quotes attributed to Ms. Reynolds, regarding deaths in British Columbia and recipients’ reactions to the payments, were made by Sharon Thira of the Indian Residential Schools [...]
The Putnam Prime Money Market Fund did not post a loss or “break the buck,” nor did its closure and distribution of all fund assets have any impact on retail investors as this fund is solely owned by institutional investors with a minimum initial investment of $10-million. Actions to unwind the fund by Putnam’s Board [...]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suing the Liberal Party of Canada. Incorrect information appeared yesterday in the Financial Post. Link Thanks, Morgan! Report an error
A quotation on Saturday from theologian John Stackhouse about the United Church of Canada should have read, “their Church is just slowly centrifugally swirling apart — there’s nothing centripetally to hold it together.” The quotation failed to distinguish between the opposing forces of nature. Link Report an error
A story Saturday on a Toronto page contained incorrect information. Link This was one of two June 17 corrections issued by the paper. The other correction appears to have no relation to this entry because it refers to a story published on Monday, rather than Saturday. So is this really the full correction, or did [...]
A photo caption accompanying a June 6 article entitled “B. C. Internet firm pays $9M to avoid U. S. gambling charges” incorrectly stated that Dan Parmar is the chief financial officer of ESI Entertainment Systems Inc. and that Mr. Parmar agreed to have ESI pay $9-million in profits in civil forfeiture to the U. S. [...]
With respect to a settlement offer they have made to Maclean’s, the Canadian Islamic Congress and Naiyer Habib of British Columbia say that they have not, at any time, asked the magazine’s editors to relinquish control of the treatment of a possible rebuttal to a Mark Steyn piece published in 2006 or insisted that the [...]
In a story on the CRTC that ran in Saturday’s Financial Post, a paragraph belonging to another story was inadvertently inserted on FP4. It said: “We do creative financing. We don’t want to be guilty of cutting, dumping and running.” The Post regrets the error. Link Part one here. Report an error
Due to an editing error, a section of Richard Salsman’s commentary, The Fed’s Printing Press, on FP Comment last Friday contained a section that should not have been published. The section begins with the words “Losses are not being ’caused’ by illiquidity …” and ends with the words “… It’s only losers who require government [...]
Reader Morgan sent along a shot from the website of Canada’s National Post that showcases two very different versions of the same story: The (sadly true) tragic version: The happier version: Both were on the site at the same time. Report an error
James Wakeford was granted statutory permission to use medicinal marijuana by the federal government on June 9, 1999. A photograph of Mr. Wakeford was inappropriately used to illustrate a Jan. 14 column on compassion clubs, which until a Federal Court ruling in January provided marijuana to patients outside the law. Mr. Wakeford remains opposed to [...]
There is no documented evidence to suggest dance poles sold at Condom Shack cannot bear the weight of a user. An unsubstantiated claim appeared in a Post Homes feature on Saturday. Link Report an error
