April 10, 2015 - The Vancouver Observer wrongly reported that Vivian Krause, who writes this blog, was part of a planned attack on environmental charities involving suspended senator Mike Duffy, now in court on criminal charges, and Ezra Levant, a former broadcaster with Sun News. Within days, The Vancouver Observer retracted 15 sentences from its article, including the entire headline, and substantially re-wrote the rest. Some errors have still not been corrected but a vague apology was added. Over the weekend that it was first published, this article was widely tweeted (while I was blocked on Twitter) and then a dozen tweets were quietly deleted. For more about this, click here.
April 22, 2015 - The National Observer published a story by Mychaylo Prystupa about references to Enbridge in Mr. Duffy's agenda. The original version incorrectly reported an entry in Mr. Duffy's agenda as a "telcon" involving Mr. Duffy, representatives of Enbridge and myself. Mr. Prystupa failed to note the "s" on "telcons," giving readers the false impressions that there was one conference call involving all three parties. There was never any such call. I wrote to Mr. Prypstupa to ask him to correct this error. He did so promptly but did not add a proper correction to let readers know that an earlier version of his article had been incorrect.
April 28 - Mr. Prypstupa sent me an e-mail with 17 questions about speaking engagements that I had during the spring of 2012 and whether they had been set up by Mr. Duffy. I replied the following day. Mr. Prypstupa sent another e-mail with 6 more questions and again, I replied immediately. At 5:42 pm of the Friday of the same week, Mr. Prypstupa sent a third e-mail with 17 more questions and gave me a "deadline" of 9 am Sunday morning. He later extended his deadline to 8 pm. I sent a short reply.
May 7 - The Vancouver Observer and the National Observer co-published an article written by Sandy Garossino and Mychylo Prystupa with the headline, "Duffy Connected Charity Critic To Lucrative Industry Cash." This headline and the gist of the article is entirely untrue. Moreover, this reporting ignores the detailed information that I had emailed to Mr. Prystupa on April 29, April 30 and May 3, 2015. The Vancouver Observer tweeted its story at least 16 times, incorrectly reporting that Mr. Duffy had connected me to "oil money" and "lucrative industry cash."
May 11 - I sent a letter to Mychaylo Prystupa, Sandy Garossino & Linda Solomon, asking them to please correct the errors in their article published on May 7, 2015.
May 13 - I received an e-mail from Sandy Garossino saying, "this matter is high on our agenda" and that a response would be coming the following day.
May 14 - I received a letter from Sandy Garossino & Linda Solomon Wood. None of the errors that I brought to their attention were corrected.
May 15 - I wrote back, asking for corrections to the inaccuracies in the article by the end of the week.
May 19 - An e-mail from Linda Solomon Wood saying that she would get back to me the following day. She didn't.
May 22 - A letter from Linda Solomon Wood & Sandy Garossino but still no corrections to any of the errors that I had pointed out in my letter of May 11.
June 3 - I sent a letter that included correspondence from The Vancouver Board of Trade, the Association of Mineral Exploration of B.C., the Canadian Energy Pipelines Association and the organizers of the Inuvik Petroleum Show. All of the organizations that hosted events at which I spoke in the spring of 2012 have confirmed that Mr. Duffy played no role in me being invited to speak. The Vancouver Board of Trade wrote, "Any assertion that Mr. Duffy was involved with this event is without merit or evidence." The others said the same thing.
June 4 - I received another letter from Sandy Garossino and Linda Solomon Wood. Still no corrections. I wrote back saying that at this point, I feel that there is no good reason that the errors have still not been corrected.
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