That’s A Funny-Looking Maple Leaf!

This is one of the funnier newspaper corrections I’ve seen lately. It comes from the Guardian; this is via Regret the Error. The Guardian story was about multiculturalism in Canada, and it used the Canadian flag as a graphic. The best way to show it is a screen shot:

Yes, that’s the Canadian flag, with a…peculiarly spiky-looking maple leaf. It takes me back to my college days! The Guardian did eventually regret the error.

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