Should the Canadian national anthem should be changed

Should your writers and editors should be more careful? I think they should should. From "Last week's question" in Tri-City News on March 12, 2010.

my six year old daughter

The writer of this article - "So you think you can't dance" in Tri-City News on January 20, 2010 - needs a lesson to show her that six-year-old daughter requires hyphens.

February 1,2009

2009, eh? So then the tickets are already available, will be should be were, and starting should be jettisoned. Either that, or 2009 should be 2010. Yeah, I'm thinking it's the date they screwed up in the City of Coquitlam Olympic Flame advertisement in Tri-City News on January 22, 2010. Also, there should be a space after the comma in the date.

Clarke Avenue; Clarke Drive

The fourth and final post featuring errors from the New Year's Eve edition of Tri-City News. This article - "Bus driver assaulted on Clarke Avenue" - starts with a double-error headline. The street is actually Clark Drive. While it's an improvement that the article's second paragraph features Drive and not Avenue,

the unwelcome E is still haunting the end of Clark. Also, inconsistency between the headline and the article is never good.

(Later it became the butt of jokes. Neverbuilt Line anyone?) because of the way it sputtered and stalled like a tired, old jitney.

The New Year's Eve errors in Tri-City News continue with the jumbled mess above. How does that paragraph - in "2004: Evergreen eyed" - get approved for publication? No editors? No proofreading? No writer pride?

this Chritmas!

The next error found in the New Year's Eve edition of Tri-City News is in "Port Moody's snowfall waste collection plan (City of Port Moody announcement)". Let's make a deal: I won't buy garbage if you don't print garbage. Stick another S in (what's supposed to be) Christmas. As I already mentioned, this was in the New Year's Eve edition. A tad late to be trying to influence shoppers' buying habits, don't you think?

northeast official community plan official community plan (NE OCP); In an effort raise awareness

The New Year's Eve edition of Tri-City News contained an alarming number of errors. First up, in "2000: NE OCP changes face of Coquitlam" we see opposite errors. Above there are extra/repeated words (or else the acronym should be NE OCP OCP), and then

there is a missing word. Specifically, to should go between effort and raise.

the Malcic's

Lisa and her husband have the same last name: Malcic. It may be news to the writer - of "Changing baby leads to inspiration" in Tri-City News on January 15, 2010 - that no apostrophe is necessary to write about the Malcics. In fact, that apostrophe isn't just unnecessary, it's plain wrong.

Should full body scanners should be installed at Vancouver International Airport?

It was "This week's question" in Tri-City News on January 8, 2010. Then it was "Last week's question" on January 15 and the wording was exactly the same. Shouldn't someone have noticed the extra should?

3 Pasta's for the Price of 2 Pasta's

This is a Grigore's Pizza advertisement in Tri-City News on December 2, 2009. I wonder why Pasta's gets an apostrophe both times, while all four Pizzas go without. Other than that, and the oddness of capitalizing Price in each offer, it's all good.

Perseverence is best demonstrated

Seriously? The very first word of the article - "That's why they call it puppy love" in Tri-City News on December 2, 2009 - is misspelled? Young children, let this be a lesson: perseverance (and some spell checking and/or good ol' fashioned proofreading) will help you avoid silly mistakes in the future. A computer's spell check won't catch all spelling errors, but this one would've been flagged.

What to know more about H1N1?

-- Planet Organic advertisement in The Tri-City News on November 4, 2009

Here's want I what to know: who wrote what instead of want?

Life Has It's Moments...

-- Acinda Jewellers advertisement in Tri-City News on October 30, 2009

... and writers have moments of apostrophe abuse.

As long as their is room for them to go, they will go away."

-- "Coyote shot after biting girl in Port Coquitlam" in Tri-City News on July 1, 2009

If their in the first sentence is correct (which it is), then how can the writer think it's correct in the second sentence? However, the writer is quoting someone, so, uhh, maybe the speaker said the wrong word.