Regret the Error

Erased

The Financial Post has no reason to believe that Canada's forest products sector is worried by a new "erasable paper" being developed by Xerox Corp., which would create temporary images on the paper that would self-erase in 24 hours or less. Incorrect information appeared in an illustration in yesterday's Financial Post. Link

But "Happy New Year" is forbidden

Sears encourages sales associates to welcome shoppers with a Merry Christmas greeting and has Christmas decorations throughout its stores.
A story in The Enquirer on Nov. 19 contained inaccurate information about company policies. Link

Capture, not kill

In a Comment piece, Don't rush to judgment, page 30, November 27, we said: "Russia has killed people abroad, it is true, and recently. In 2004 two military-intelligence agents blew up the Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev in Qatar (the Americans helped)." The Americans helped capture the agents, not to assassinate Yandarbiyev. Link

English go home

A story Monday about Bishop O’Hara High School students’ visit to Quebec City, Canada, mistakenly attributed a statement about the Quebecois having a reputation for being rude to English speakers to Carmel D’Angelo, a school official and chaperone for the trip. Mrs. D’Angelo did not express the sentiment, which was actually an observation made by the reporter. Link

Love that objectivity!

Vet to the rescue

A story in Saturday's Gazette-Mail incorrectly described how Jo Ann McCoy rescued a cat. McCoy trapped the cat in the restroom of an abandoned building but called her veterinarian, Dr. Joe Blair, who used an animal noose to actually catch the cat. Link

Rest is fine

In a fund focus article on November 21, the name of wealth manager Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch was spelt incorrectly. Rodrigo Araya, the manager, said Telecom Italia was "at worst a BBB credit", not a DDD credit as wrongly quoted. The wrong graph was also used to illustrate the article. We apologise for the errors.

Love that specificity

A Thursday main news section caption accompanying a photograph of President Bush "pardoning" a turkey contained incorrect information on the holiday tradition. The National Turkey Federation began the tradition of a holiday turkey gift to the President in December 1947. The tradition of pardoning began later, probably in the 1980s. Link

Fuzzy numbers etc.

A chart in Business Day on Wednesday with an article about Google’s share price surpassing $500 misstated the performance of New River Pharmaceuticals, which was listed among the best-performing initial offers. Shares of New River increased 1,154 percent through Tuesday since its offering in August 2004, not 527 percent. In addition, two companies listed in the chart, New River and Atlas America, did not reflect the split-adjusted share prices. The split-adjusted price for New River was $4, not $8; and for Atlas America, it was $10.33 instead of $15.50. Link

Lessons in geography etc.

Because of a reporter's error, the City Streets column in Sunday's Metro section incorrectly described Albania as a Baltic nation. It is a Balkan nation. Link

But we won't say why

The headline 'Cops nab shooting suspect' appeared incorrectly on page A1 of yesterday's Mercury.