Drammens Tidende - 1 Story

1) Cowboy i Canada (Ragnar Edvardsen) 27 September (no year posted)
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There is not too much wrong with this story other than a few mistakes. First, the journalist writes that Province of Alberta in Canada is a "state". Alberta is a province in Canada, not a state. Canada does not have states like Australia, the USA and Mexico, but provinces like in China, France, Afghanistan, and other countries. Canada has never used states, this journalist has used an American term to describe a province in Canada. Why when the Norwegian press writes about China, Afghanistan, and other countries using provinces do they get it write, but with Canada, they call Canadian provinces "states"? How does a story even go to press without this simple fact correct? Second, the Province of British Columbia, located beside Alberta is spelt "British Columbia, not "Colombia" ("Colombia" is the spelling for the country in South America). Third, Canada's famous national police force are called the "Gendarmerie royale du Canada" (GRC) / "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" (RCMP), not the "Royal Canadian Mountain Police." They use the word "mounted" because the are on horses, not because of the mountains.