HOW WE WORK

Corrections policy

Errors are corrected in the open, in the next piece, with the original claim restated. Nothing is quietly edited after publication.

CanadianWorldReport. This page states current practice and is updated when the practice changes.

This is the corrections policy CanadianWorldReport works to. When we get something wrong, the correction is published in the open, in the next piece, with the original claim restated so a reader can see exactly what changed. Published articles are not quietly edited afterwards. The policy exists because the whole proposition of this site is that a reader can check it, and a page that changes without saying so cannot be checked.

What happens when we get something wrong

The correction appears in the next published piece, in the open, carrying the original claim and the corrected one side by side.
The correction is logged with its date, the claim as originally published, the correction, and what caused the error.
Where the error sits in an article that remains live, the article carries a note saying it was corrected, what changed, and when.

Why we do not edit silently

A reader who read the first version of a page is holding something we no longer stand behind, and a silent edit gives that reader no way of knowing. It also removes the evidence that the correction happened at all. The record of what a publication got wrong, and how fast it said so, is part of what tells you how much weight to give the rest of it.

The log is published, not filed. A corrections record kept privately serves the publication. A corrections record published serves the reader. Ours is the second kind.

What counts as a correction

A correction is issued for any error in a material claim, a number, an attribution, a date, or the status label attached to a claim. A misapplied label is a correction in its own right, because the label is a statement about how far the checking went and a wrong one misleads on exactly the point this site exists to be clear about.

A typographical fix, a broken piece of markup or a formatting repair is not a correction and is not logged as one. Nothing that changes the meaning of a sentence falls into that category.

How to tell us we are wrong

Write to the mailbox on our contact page. The two things that make a correction quick to act on are the title of the article and the sentence you are disputing. A primary document that contradicts us is the fastest route of all, and it is the one that gets checked first.

Our verification methodology sets out the labels and tests a claim passes through before publication, which is the process a correction records the failure of.

Nothing published here is investment, legal or security advice. We report what has already happened and what it is recorded as costing. We do not forecast and we do not tell you what to do. Corrections are published in the open and logged, never made by silent edit.