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Denied, not admitted

May 15, 2008 – 8:00 am

A caption under a photo of Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in the May 10 Sun was incorrect in saying Olmert “admitted wrong” in taking cash from a U.S. financier. Olmert denied any wrongdoing.

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Gender issues

March 17, 2008 – 8:00 am

A story on Page 20 of yesterday’s Sun about health care in Ontario incorrectly identified Lindsay McCreith as a woman. Lindsay McCreith is, in fact, a man.

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Resurrection

January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am

In Jim Slotek’s review of the film All Hat published in yesterday’s Toronto Sun, the late Bruno Kirby was listed as one of the stars. In fact, it is Luke Kirby who stars in the movie, and he is very much alive. The Sun apologizes to Luke and regrets the error.

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Toronto Sun apologizes for lifted paragraph

January 23, 2008 – 8:00 am

The Torontoist blog recently put up a post noting the similarities between one of its articles and a subsequent one in the Toronto Sun. (Disclosure: I recently joined some of the Torontoist folks on the bloggers team for a broadcast of Test The Nation on CBC.) Some folks took to the comments section to object [...]

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Toronto Sun column about errors

December 3, 2007 – 8:00 am

Toronto Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski was inspired to write a column last week about newspaper errors after spotting this correction in the Toronto Star, a competing newspaper:
Brian Mulroney’s Memoirs 1939-1993 is 1,152 pages, which means that its price per page is 4.5 cents. An incorrect page count was given in a Nov. 25 comparison between [...]

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