Maybe they're just new

How does he know the bag guys don't like him? Is it because they're always putting the heavy milk cartons on top of his fresh bread? From "More B.C. Mounties complain of harassment" on CBC News online on November 8, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.

Waiting for a fix

The second sentence of this article ("Occupy Vancouver protest wins overnight reprieve" on CBC News online on November 8, 2011) is missing the word time before to prepare his arguments. At least I think that's what the fix should be. The folks at CBC seem to think it's fine as-is, because at the time of the above screen capture the article had been updated at least once, with the most recent update occurring over 8 hours after the article's posting. Click the image to enlarge it.

CBC British Columbia homepagerrors

Some errors to share. Shocking, right? This time it's four screen captures from the CBC British Columbia homepage. First up, from October 17, 2011, the apostrophe in fishermen's was in the wrong place. See where I put it? Yeah, that's the correct place. (It's also wrong in the article's first sentence.) Next,

also from October 17, 2011, the word on should have been included between Taser and an. Then,

on November 4, 2011, there was a misspelling of provincial. Finally,

seen today, writing the word dollar was redundant because the dollar symbol ($) had already been used.

From San to Zanne

If the Metro Vancouver-focussed articles were written by someone in the Metro Vancouver area, I think the number of misspellings of Suzanne Anton's name would decrease dramatically. From "Vancouver seeks end of Occupy camp, not protest" on CBC News online on November 7, 2011.

... followed by a search for the proofreader

The word search does not begin with a vowel sound, so an should be halved to a. From "Man shot dead in Vancouver" on CBC News online on November 6, 2011.

No article too short

All articles, no matter the length, should be proofread before being posted. This opening sentence of a four-sentence article about a tragic incident ("Traffic death shuts eastbound Port Mann Bridge" on CBC News online on November 3, 2011) is missing a word - or two or three - after the word traffic. Also,

the photo caption has a nonword. The word is supposed to be tarpaulin.

Bad

It should be either said Grant's spokeswoman in an e-mail or Grant's spokeswoman said in an e-mail. It shouldn't be a combination of both. From "Hugh Grant is new father of baby girl" on Yahoo! Canada News on November 1, 2011. Then,

the article's final sentence has me scratching my head for more than one reason. A quiet year so far in his career? What does that mean? And I think the word an is missing from between in and animated. Pretty crap writing, especially considering there are two names attached to this five-paragraph article. Also,

going back to the top of the article, why is the editor's name the one attached to this and not the person who did the reporting and writing? Click an image to enlarge it.

Inadiquate proofreading

Including a nonword in your article's first sentence - such as inadaquate when it should be inadequate - doesn't instill trust in your readers. From "Some B.C. employers cheating on minimum wage, union alleges" on CBC News online on November 1, 2011. Then,

three sentences later, categorized should be categorizing. Click an image to enlarge it.

What?

This is the second "sentence" in "Halloween vandalism threat increases security" on CBC News online on October 31, 2011.

Analyze this

This is the online cover image for 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays, Second Edition: With Analysis by the Staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School Newspaper (ISBN 9780312550073). Do I need to write anything more? For the record, that link takes you to the book's page on Indigo, and it's the same image on Amazon.

Use your personal identification number number at the automated teller machine machine

I'm confused. Why was $8,000 correctly left alone with no accompanying dollars, while later in the same sentence (from "Kash Heed's manager alleges $40K more in spending" on CBC News online on October 28, 2011) $5,500 incorrectly - and redundantly - had dollars following it? In the next sentence,

either the word and needs to be inserted between involved and have or the word were needs to be removed. Then,

$40,000 is dollars-free, but $5,500 again sees dollars following closely. Also, Barinder Sall is Sall every time in the article, but when Rankin asks him then he's temporarily short an L. Click an image to enlarge it.

Whose job is it to proofread?

This article ("Bio expected to light up Amazon" in 24 hours Vancouver on October 27, 2011) is about the biography about Steve Jobs. Notice how I wrote Steve Jobs and not Steve Job? Yeah, that's your first indication that the apostrophe in Job's bio from the above paragraph is incorrect.

33.33% = CBC fail

There are three names in this photo caption and CBC misspelled two of them. It started fine with Bill Clinton, but then George W. Bush and Dianne Watts both got mistreated. From "George W. Bush war crime prosecution blocked in B.C." on CBC News online on October 24, 2011.

24 hours Vancouverrors

My friend, Jason, posted the above picture on the Detected Errors page on Facebook. It's from 24 hours Vancouver - a free daily newspaper - on October 24, 2011. As you can see, a professional writer wrote loose when it should have been lose, and that person did it in a very large font, indeed. Jason wrote,

You get what you pay for, and this rag they have to force upon people as they cattle call their way onto the SkyTrain. But jeez Louise, on the same page? Have some professional pride, people!

Later that day,

I saw this headline in the same paper, just five pages after the lose/loose error. The apostrophe is in the wrong spot, as womens' should be women's.

Thanks, Jason!