Thursday, October 21, 2010

Coquitlam native

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1958. His family moved to Surrey, BC, in 1966, before settling in Port Coquitlam, BC, in 1968. (See this Wikipedia article.) How does someone get "Coquitlam native" from that? Note that Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam are two different cities, which is something CBC apparently doesn't know. From "Coupland gets Fox gig" in yesterday's 24 hours Vancouver.

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