If you read this blog regularly, you'll know how incensed I was at  the incompetent story the NYT did in early March linking the Alberta shootings of four RCMP officers to "B.C. Bud."

Well, now the Guardian -- possibly my second-favourite foreign newspaper -- has gone and done a mirror image of that story.

An excerpt:

BC Bud is so well thought of on the west coast it has been known to trade at the same price as cocaine, more than $3,000 a pound. In fact, it is commonly bartered for cocaine and guns, which travel in the opposite direction, north into Canada, making it a less safe and predictable place - and more like America - every day.

Drive-by killings are on the rise in the Vancouver area, as are house invasions, by which one gang seeks to take over another's marijuana crop without the bother of grow lights and hydroponic cultivation.

About a month ago four officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were shot dead when they stumbled on a BC Bud-growing operation - the most Mounties lost in one day since the middle of the 19th century.

The killings shocked Canada, and have challenged the country's generally tolerant attitude towards drug offences.

"It showed Canadians that the people who have grow-ops [growing operations] aren't all nice guys with mom-and-pop operations," said Inspector Paul Nadeau, the head of the force's coordinated marijuana enforcement team in British Columbia. "Nothing could be further from the truth. Every single criminal organisation in the region is involved."

Read this to see why I'm outraged.

The writer, Julian Borger, even quotes some of the same sources from the NYT piece while making exactly the same mistakes!

Unbelievable!!!!