Was this written during a brain freeze?

This is the headline and, more importantly, the subheadline for "Missing man Adam Moore sought in northwestern B.C." on CBC News online on January 3, 2014. Please note both Dec. 19 and 7-11. Then,

this is the article's third sentence/paragraph. Your assignment: compare and contrast the date and the store name, in regards to what is in the subheadline. Papers should be between 8,000-10,000 words and are due first thing tomorrow morning. Click an image to enlarge it.

[The subheadline has now been updated to match the information in the third sentence. Oh, CBC - you and your subheadline shenanigans.]

The cost of inaccuracies

The subheadline for "BC Ferries hiking fares 3.5% to cover rising fuel costs" on CBC News online on January 2, 2014, states that the cost to BC Ferries for every 1 cent per litre increase in the price of fuel is "$12M per year", but

the article's third sentence claims the cost is $1.2M. I don't know which figure is correct and both figures remain the same. Click an image to enlarge it.

It was my understanding that there would be no math

This is the subheadline of "Tri-Cities find success in fight against homelessness" on CBC News online on November 15, 2013. Nothing wrong here - just want to point out the word fewer. Then,

this is found in the article's second sentence, and fewer has become less. Booooooo. Then,

the writer somehow thinks that 206 is nearly double 154. Oooookay. Click an image to enlarge it. Also, the term "Tri-Cities" is used five times in the article, and not once is it said which cities are included in the Tri-Cities. Here are two of the 20 comments below the article:

• It would be nice if you could identify the "Tri-Cities." Perhaps the locals know but other people ...? I gather Coquitlam is one. What are the others?
• I've often wondered what the "Tri-Cities" were, and I still don't know!

This article have an error

This is the beginning of the photo caption at the top of the article - "Grouse Mountain stabbing suspect arrested in North Vancouver" on CBC News online on November 13, 2013 - and

this is the beginning of the article's first sentence. C'mon, CBC, is it has or have? Have some consistency. Click an image to enlarge it.

There are probably 11 featured

Here's the headline of the article ("9 Sex Kinks That Are Kind of Dumb" on truTV online on April 9, 2013) and,

here's the third and final intro paragraph to the slideshow, in which readers are told twice that the article features 10 kinks. Click an image to enlarge it.

Here's another poInsert Blockquotest

In the headline (for "Former advisor to Stephen Harper apologizes for supporting right to watch child porn" on Yahoo! Canada News on February 28, 2013), the word advisor is present. Then,

in the article's second sentence, the word adviser is used in the same context. Consistency much? Then,

I'm not quite sure what's going on with members - or, rather, meInsert Blockquotembers. Click an image to enlarge it.

Playing fast and loose with the writing

This article ("Remarkable Colorado full court shot in girls hoops game goes in off a bounce" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on February 11, 2013) includes an embedded YouTube video after a short opening paragraph. It seems the writer - who thinks that Anna Olson "grabbed a loose ball" right before scoring the amazing basket - didn't watch the video because it very clearly shows Olson's teammate grabbing a defensive rebound and then passing the ball to Olson. Then,

the ball's bounce wasn't straight up, as there was obviously momentum towards the basket. And long-range needs a hyphen. And the writer says the basket was worth two points, while the YouTube video's description claims the basket was worth three points. Either way, there needs to be a period after that closing parenthesis. Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahooo! January 2013

January 2013 was a light month for errors on the Yahoo! Canada homepage, but some were detected. First up, on January 22 someone screwed up the order of the Dancing with the Stars acronym. Then,

on January 23, I'm told that I could do worse than 19 litres per kilometre, which is pretttttty bad itself. Then,

on January 31, the word of was missing from between sea and reports. Also, both lip-syncing and lip-sync have hyphens, but

the headline of the Beyonce article ("Beyonce Admits She Lip Synced at Inauguration" on Yahoo! Canada omg! on January 31, 2013) doesn't have a hyphen. Click an image to enlarge it.

It's a date!

It's a book and, if I'm to judge a book by its cover, it looks to be about the Mayan calendar and the possible end of the world on 12.21.12 - a date also known as December 21, 2012. But

while the top of the back of the book again has 12.21.12 as the date, the text of the first paragraph has the date as December 12, 2012, and

a bit farther down the back, it's again December 12, 2012. On the book's Indigo webpage, the description includes, "foretold to occur on December 21, 2012". The plot thickens! Click an image to enlarge it.

But it feels like it just happened

My young son has a habit of saying that something happened yesterday when it actually happened much longer ago. But I expect a bit more from a news site such as CBC. The incident happened either last year or in 2011. Which one is the truth? From "B.C. Transit Police forgot explosive on Air Canada plane" on CBC News online on January 21, 2013. Click the image to enlarge it.

Mind your ths and rds

This is posted where I work. How would you pronounce December 3th? Would it be December thirth? December threeth? Reminds me of the 2rd floor post. Is it the 18th annual or the 16th annual? Also, is the event REALTORS® CareBlanket Drive or is it REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive? It's twice the former and once the latter, making me think it's the former, but the logo on the left makes me think it's the latter. Click the image to enlarge it.

Get the editor onn the phone!

Paul McCartney was in town on Sunday, and by all reports it was a fantastic show. Not so fantastic is the of/off error in this photo caption for an article ("Paul McCartney's setlist promises the Beatles' best in Vancouver" on The Georgia Straight online on November 25, 2012) that was posted just after noon on the day of the show. Then,

in another article ("Paul McCartney fans are not going berserk like they did before the 1964 concert in Vancouver" on The Georgia Straight online on November 25, 2012) posted right before the show, the error was repeated. What makes it worse is that it wasn't a copy-and-paste job, because the stage was changed to our stage. Click an image to enlarge it.

Wear or where? Meh, I don't car

Here's the headline of an article ("Sidewalk-driving woman ordered to wear ‘idiot’ sign as punishment" on Yahoo! Canada News on November 6, 2012), which states that a woman was ordered to wear an "idiot" sign. Wear the sign. Wear it. Wear. Got it? Good. Then,

in the article's second sentence, it changes. Now the woman was ordered to hold the sign. Hold it. Then,

there was a careless misspelling of cares. Then,

apparently there once was a case of someone having to where a sign. Not hold a sign. Not wear a sign. They had to where a sign. Where. Click an image to enlarge it.

1,000 meters = 1 kilometre = 1,000 metres = 1 kilometer

The above sentence was on display on the CBC British Columbia homepage on August 22, 2012. It looks fine, right? I mean, other than the threat to residents of a nearby fire. The issue is the spelling of kilometers. CBC stands for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and in Canada the spelling of words like kilometre (and metre, and centre) is -re instead of -er. The first sentence of the article is exactly the same as the homepage, and then

later in the article ("B.C. evacuation order for Big Bar Creek residents downgraded" on CBC News online on August 22, 2012) there is an incorrect meters. Then,

out of left field to cap it off, a misspelling of what should be lightning.

This is one for CSI: MSN

This is the first paragraph of the article ("Facebook user satisfaction plummets, Google+ shines, says survey" on MSN Canada Tech and Gadgets on July 17, 2012) and I don't know how something with the initials ACSI can be shortened to ASCI. But that's how it's done, according to the article's writer. It's written twice more as ASCI and never as the correct ACSI. The underlined American Consumer Satisfaction Index is a link that takes readers to an ACSI page where ACSI is displayed several times in the top third of the screen. Click the image to enlarge it.

As Canadian as apple pie

The subheadline of the article ("Elliot Lake prepares for mall collapse victim's funeral" on CBC News online on July 3, 2012) identifies the victim as Doloris Perizzolo. But,

the first mention of her in the article has her last name as Perrizolo. Also, note the non-Canadian spelling of Center (as opposed to Centre) on a Canadian news site (CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) while identifying a Canadian mall. Then,

the two-R, one-Z Perrizolo spelling is repeated two sentences later, but

in the article's next two sentences, it is now the one-R, two-Z spelling that we saw in the subheadline. Then,

in the article's photo caption, her name is again consistent with the subheadline, and we now see the Canadian spelling of Centre. Then,

a collection of related articles on the sidebar has a heading that includes the non-Canadian spelling. Then,

wanting to make sure it is indeed Algo Centre Mall, I went to the mall's own website. I took note of the spelling of the web address - www.algocentremall.com - and the logo, seen above, that is featured prominently in the top left corner of the homepage. However,

in the bottom left corner of that same homepage, there's this. Click an image to enlarge it.

Fault!

The first error of this article ("B.C.'s Peliwo loses French Open junior tennis final" on CBC Sports online on June 10, 2012) is in the photo caption at the very start. Filip Peliwo's name is written correctly right off the bat, but then the writer can't repeat that success. Then,

in the article's second paragraph, the the between managed and save should be to. Do you see how Peliwo smashed his racket? Well,

in the subheadline, it was his racquet. Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahooooooooooooooo! May 2012

 The start of June 2012 means it's time for a look back at May 2012 and all the errors that the Yahoo! Canada homepage assaulted our eyeballs with during that month. First, from May 1, 26 years old should not have included any hyphens. Then,

 again on May 1, it wasn't Dustin and Moskovitz (Dustin Moskovitz is one person), so are should have been is. Then,

 on May 5 Yahoo! couldn't decide if it should be do's and don'ts or dos and don'ts, so went with one of each. Then,

 on May 11 your should have been you. Then,

on May 14, even if vie had been spelled correctly, this would not have made sense. It should have read either Men who will be vying for her or Men who will vie for her. Then,

 again on May 14, including both the dollar sign ($) and the word dollar was redundant. Then,

 on May 15 there was a creative spelling of unique. Then,

from May 23, how does Dancing With the Stars get initialised as DTWS? I suppose one has to undergo Yahoo! training to find out. Then,

 again from May 23, someone added a T to Skechers. Then,

 again from May 23, someone added an L to Motorola. Then,

 again from May 23 (not a good day at Yahoo!), I saw that Seinfeld got mistreated. Then,

 on May 27 the hyphen was placed incorrectly in Shiloh Jolie-Pitt's name. Then,

 there was an extra E in fragrance on May 28. Then,

 on May 29 there was an extra to. Finally,

 on May 31 there was a misspelled receives - twice. I still don't understand how nonwords can regularly appear on Yahoo!'s homepage. It's ridiculous. Anyway, that concludes this collection of errors. Click an image to enlarge it.