I'm listening to a 5 p.m. newscast on CBC Radio 2 on Monday afternoon.

The lead story is about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address to the United Nations. The announcer intones that here are the Iranian president's words, as offered through a translator:

"We have 80,000 workers in Canada (blah, blah, blah) ..."

And that left me immediately asking myself the following question: Why is Buzz Hargrove translating for Ahmadinejad?

He wasn't. The announcer apologized for the error. The clip from the Canadian Auto Workers president came later as part of an item on the just-launched GM strike in the U.S.