Regret the Error

An answer in the Q&A column on Oct. 19 about the hazards of hail misstated the year that a hailstorm in India caused 246 deaths. It was 1888, not 1988. Link  Report an error

An article in The Age on October 15 stated that a Monash University study found that more than 87 per cent of people shot dead by police in the past 30 years had a mental illness. The actual number was one third of those killed had a mental illness. The report found that 87.5 per [...]

  Sometimes, we make mistakes, and we're owning up to this one. Last week, a story ran on our website about the City of Portage la Prairie running out of money to finish work cleaning out the lime and sludge of the city's wastewater treatment tanks. After talking with a worker and the owner of [...]

In our HTML version of last week's SNCJ, we noted that Iowa had ended their fiscal year with a $755 budget surplus. This was supposed to say $755 million. We regret the error. Link (at bottom of page)  Report an error

The price for a red cape shown in Weekend magazine's All ages fashion spread (18 September, pages 60-61 ) should have been £350 rather than the more optimistic £35 listed. Link  Report an error

Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Mail had 97 million unique visitors in August. In some Sept. 11 editions, a Corporate News article about Yahoo's email makeover incorrectly said it had 97 visitors. Link Thanks, Daniel!  Report an error

The story "Ageing population won't burden system'' last week incorrectly stated the 1991-92 and current expenditure on health care as $8 billion and $10bn. It should have read 8 and 10 per cent.  Report an error

A Sept. 11 Business article misstated the amount Torstar Corp. paid in 2005 for a 20 per cent stake in CTVglobemedia as $283 million. In fact, Torstar, parent company of the Toronto Star, paid $378 million for the asset. On Friday, it said it would record proceeds of approximately $345 million as a result of [...]

The Advertising column on Tuesday, about real companies entering the online market for virtual goods, misstated the number of users of Mall World, a Facebook social game that offers a virtual replica of the singer Beyoncé’s diamond ring. It has 4.75 million users a month, not 400,000. Link  Report an error

A sentence in Kirk Wickersham's editorial page Compass column on Page A-7 Tuesday about U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's idea of cutting federal spending should have read: "This is a 95 percent reduction from existing spending levels for all government programs and services except the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." A typographical error had the [...]

The Niger delta supplies 8.2%, not 40%, of the crude oil imported by the US, as we stated in a story yesterday (Niger delta spills released twice as much oil as Deepwater. But it’s not Shell’s fault, UN says, 23 August, page 17). Link  Report an error

In a story Aug. 22 about the rally in Treasury bonds, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Treasury bonds maturing in 20 years or more have returned 2.1 percent so far this year. They have returned 21 percent. Link  Report an error

An article on Tuesday about a Los Angeles women’s club founded in 1927 paraphrased incorrectly from comments by Michele Mount, the spokeswoman for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, about the estimated number of women who were members of the federation in the mid-20th Century. Ms. Mount said there were about one million members, not [...]

In a story Aug. 2 about the Census of Marine Life, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the 15,374 species in the Gulf of Mexico amount to 10 per square kilometer. The correct figure is one per 100 square kilometers. Link  Report an error

An article on July 21 about David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, and his austerity measures to slash the national budget, misstated the number of unemployed people in the country. It is 2.5 million, not 8 million. The article also misstated the government portion of the total work force in Britain. It is 21.1 percent, [...]

A July 19 editorial about Canada’s infrastructure deficit incorrectly stated that one estimate is that Canada needs $123 million to bring municipal infrastructure up to a minimum state of repair. In fact, the estimate is $123 billion. Link  Report an error

BankSimple: An article in Thursday’s Business section about BankSimple, a new Internet banking firm, said that conventional banks collect at least $24 million a year in overdraft fees. The amount is $24 billion. Also, the article said Alex Payne was a co-founder of Twitter Inc. He is not; Payne, a former Twitter employee, was brought [...]

A dropped digit meant we seemed to be saying that about 60 demonstrators were arrested during the G20 meeting in Toronto – instead of about 600, as the local police said at the time of writing (Cameron plans to downgrade G8 summit, 29 June, page 8). Link  Report an error

The two sub-penthouses on the 51st floor of the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton are priced at $9 million each. A June 19 article about real estate agent Pat Baker incorrectly stated the price at $9 billion each. Link  Report an error

BP cleanup costs: In Thursday’s Business section, a chart of BP’s annual profits that accompanied an article about the company’s costs associated with the gulf oil spill used an incorrect scale. The range of the chart’s scale was shown as $1.0 billion to $2.5 billion; it should have been $10 billion to $25 billion. Link [...]

A June 8 Metro article about a pregnant woman who was shot with a Taser and beaten in Montgomery County incorrectly said that the victim was 35 1/2 months pregnant. She was 35 1/2 weeks pregnant. The article also referred to the suspect, Christine R. DeVaux, as a New Zealand medical student. DeVaux had attended [...]

A chart on Monday with the continuation of an article about the possibility that the oil spill cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico could continue well into the fall misstated, in some editions, the number of gallons in one barrel of oil. A barrel holds 42 gallons, not 42,000 gallons. Link  Report an error

A music review on Friday about the opening-night gala of the World Science Festival, at Alice Tully Hall, which included a work by Philip Glass that used a version of the Icarus story told in a children’s book by Brian Greene, misstated the distance to the star Proxima Centauri in describing the book’s plot. It [...]

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the restoration of the historic Parisian palace that once served as headquarters of the Marshall Plan, the American plan for Europe’s postwar reconstruction, misstated the rough equivalent in today’s dollars of the $13 billion disbursed by the plan. It is $117 billion, not $1.2 trillion. [...]

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