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All Our 2024 Corrections and Clarifications

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You can also have a look at our 2023 Transparency Report here.

The Backbench

Episode: “How Canadian Voters Could Sway the U.S. Election” (November 5)

CORRECTIONS: (November 5)

Episode: “The Hate U Post” (March 12)

CORRECTION: (March 18) This episode’s description originally stated that the proposed Online Harms Act would permit “users to sue each other for hate speech online.” In fact, it would allow the Canadian Human Rights Commission to consider complaints related to allegedly discriminatory online speech and to refer such complaints to the quasi-judicial Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

CANADALAND (Monday show)

Episode: “Why Government Is Addicted to Cigarettes” (January 22)

CORRECTION: In a previous edition of this episode, the guest Max Krangle said that, to account for tobacco revenue loss, income tax would have to increase by 10%. Host Jesse Brown, misinterpreted this and asked if that would mean that tobacco revenue accounts for 10% of total tax revenue. Krangle mistakenly agreed. That exchange has been removed.

COMMONS

Episode: “The Crucible of Confinement” (June 5)

CORRECTION: We stated in this episode that this was Zakaria Amara’s first interview with a member of the press. But it was in fact his first broadcast interview since his release. We regret the error.

SHORT CUTS

Episode: “The Missing Piece for International Students” (January 25)

CLARIFICATION: (January 31) Canadaland would like to clarify there are other requirements to maintain a permanent residency in Canada. One such example is a residency requirement. While there are some exceptions, individuals generally need to have spent at least 730 days (the equivalent of two years) in Canada over the previous five years.

Episode: “No Sex Please, We’re Albertan” (February 8)

CORRECTION (February 8): This episode originally described Susan Kim as a member of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, and suggested that Premier David Eby allowed her to continue in her role after she apologized for casting doubt on the use of sexual violence by Hamas. Kim is in fact a Victoria city councillor who added her name to a late-October open letter that made reference to “the unverified accusation that Palestinians were guilty of sexual violence.” While Municipal Affairs Minister Anne Kang called on Kim to apologize (which she subsequently did), and declined to call for Kim’s resignation, Premier Eby himself did not weigh in.

Episode: “Mulroney: One of Canada’s Most Divisive Prime Ministers” (March 7)

CLARIFICATION (March 18): While the Investigative Journalism Foundation’s Open By Default database includes roughly 20,000 records released by federal departments and agencies in response to access-to-information requests, The Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada project is broader in scope, encompassing summaries of more than 300,000 requests made to over 600 federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal institutions across the country.

Episode: “The Musk of Censorship” (March 21)

CLARIFICATION: When Jesse reads from Bill C-63 Online Harms Act 17 he says “”A person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit hate speech.” He meant to say  Section 17 “refers to existing parts of the criminal code that govern hate speech.”

Episode: Did Beijing Tamper With the Globe and Mail? (June 20)

CLARIFICATION:(June 21) An unclear statement in an earlier version of this episode could be interpreted to mean that Shree Paradkar spread messages advocating for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel, which she did not. This statement should have been that Shree Paradkar spread messages from someone (Amanda Gelender) who has advocated for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.

Episode: Pierre Keeps it Hot After Trump Gets Shot (July 18)

CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this episode, we incorrectly referred to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as “Allison Smith”. An updated version of this episode has fixed the error.

Pretendians

Episode: “Pretendian Hunters” (June 4)

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this episode stated that “the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in the state of Virginia” Since publishing it was brought to our attention that The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is one of seven federally recognized tribes in the state of Virginia.

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