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    WSJ Misidentifies Canada. Twice.

    By Ryan Tate, 10:18 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008, 2,321 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    This is what happens when you let an Australian-born media mogul buy an American newspaper and import his chief editor from Britain: Suddenly no one on staff can correctly identify the country to the north (for the record, it's "Canada" — just "Canada"). And to think we actually believed Robert Thomson would make the Wall Street Journal more globalist! [WSJ]

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