Corrections
Every correction to a published figure or statement, newest first: when it went live, which pages it touched, what changed, and what prompted it. Interface fixes are not listed; wrong numbers and wrong words are.
How corrections work
Every page carries a "Spot a mistake" box that reaches the person who runs the site. A report is answered within one school day. Where it is right, the figure is fixed in the data file it comes from, so every page built from that file changes, and the fix is live within three school days. Most are fixed the same day. A correction that reveals a wrong source is fixed at the source, not patched on one page, and the sources page for that part of the site is updated at the same time.
Entries from 24 October 2026 onward are logged as they are made. Entries before that date were reconstructed from the site's change history, which records every change since it opened (the earliest here is from September 24, 2026). Reports from readers are described without naming the person.
The log
Licence needed: judged across the whole country, and "Depends" where it does
Pages: Every career page, its quick answers and one-page summary, /ca/compare-careers and /us/compare-careers, /ca/quiz and /us/quiz
The licence answer had followed Ontario's rules on Canadian pages, so a welder read "No, anyone can do it" although Alberta and Quebec require certification, and an auto body repairer read "Yes" although only four provinces do. Each career was checked against every province and territory, or every state. Where it depends, the page now says so and names the places, for example "Depends, needed in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec" for an industrial electrician. In Canada 113 careers changed to depends; in the United States 70. Some careers with no licence anywhere, such as accountant (the licence is for public accounting and the CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant) title), now say so plainly.
Prompted by: Our own review, after the owner found industrial electrician and powerline technician shown as needing no licence.
Every career page, guide and school page re-checked and corrected
Pages: All 449 Canadian and 454 US career pages and their one-page summaries, All 36 guides, University, college and program pages, /ca/program-finder, /ca/deadlines, /ca/courses
Every career file was re-read against the same list of mistakes found on the registered nurse page. Pay cards that only repeated the range were replaced with the highest provincial or state medians, or a published starting grid. Cost totals that disagreed with their own tables were made to agree. Admission ranges now come from the program data. Placeholder cards were filled from an allowed source or removed. Outdated facts were corrected, among them: Ontario pharmacists treat 28 minor ailments (not 19), Alberta's machinist and millwright trades are optional, both federal apprenticeship grants closed on 31 March 2025, Ontario now pays Level 1 class fees, and the first Skilled Trades Ontario exam is free. Several US careers now use the closest survey line (case manager, social worker, office administrator, park ranger, parts technician, pest control worker, plastic surgeon, psychotherapist). Every self-reported or crowd-sourced figure was removed (seller and creator surveys, Doximity, the APA salary survey, Esports Earnings, Reddit). Bare abbreviations such as BC, AI and IT now carry their meaning on every card. On the school pages, 1,780 source links that had a note stuck to the address now work, 172 college programs moved to their correct field, admission ranges read the first regular figure only, and the finder no longer treats "or" choices as separate required courses.
Prompted by: Our own full review of the site, started from reported issues on the registered nurse page.
Registered nurse page corrected throughout
Pages: /ca/careers/registered-nurse, its one-page summary
The starting pay card said Job Bank publishes no starting rate; it now gives the first step of the ONA (Ontario Nurses' Association) hospital grid from 1 April 2026, $41.15 an hour. The upper-end card, about $113,000 a year from the top of Job Bank's range, was replaced by the highest provincial medians: $58.00 an hour in the Northwest Territories, $57.99 in Nunavut, with Ontario at $42.00 and Quebec lowest at $40.00. The cost note now matches the table, $30,000 to $44,000 (was $35,000 to $45,000). The path names the college nursing degrees (Algonquin, Conestoga, Fanshawe), the admission range comes from the program data instead of a flat 80% to 90%, and the University of Toronto was taken out of the high school examples because it only admits students with two years of university. French is now stated as required for the licence in Quebec. Shift hours were made consistent (three 12-hour shifts in most weeks, about 36 to 40 hours). Weak factoids were replaced with sourced ones.
Prompted by: Reported issues on the registered nurse page, checked against Job Bank, ONA and each school's own page.
Program finder: course requirements read correctly for dozens of programs
Pages: /ca/program-finder, Ontario college program pages, Ontario and Canadian university program pages
Requirement lines joined by "or" were read as two required courses; they are now one choice, so 21 college programs (among them Conestoga Power Systems, Sheridan Electrical Engineering, Georgian's nursing degree and Niagara Massage Therapy) no longer say a course is missing. Sheridan Athletic Therapy and Kinesiology require Grade 12 Biology again. "Any two" science rules at St. Lawrence and Fleming now need two sciences, not one. "One other Grade 12 U course" rules (18 lines in 17 Ontario programs) and minimum averages written in words (OCAD U, UBC, UBC Okanagan) are now checked. A Conestoga selection note (88% for fall 2025) was taken out of its course list. Lambton's online programs are listed as online, not Sarnia. Collège Boréal's program names have their accents back, and four of its programs' campuses were corrected from its own pages. Laval was taken out of the finder, as the RMC (Royal Military College of Canada) already was. Concordia's computer science program carries the name its own page uses.
Prompted by: Our own walkthrough review of the program finder.
McMaster: an obsolete application step removed
Pages: /ca/deadlines, 22 McMaster program pages, /ca/supplementary
Twenty-two McMaster programs listed a step to rank an alternate track. McMaster's engineering supplementary application page no longer mentions tracks, and its engineering answers say it does not factor the program choice into decisions or send alternative offers, so the step was removed.
Prompted by: Our own re-read of McMaster's pages.
Teacher: an Ontario teaching degree now takes about 12 months
Pages: /ca/careers/teacher
The page said the Ontario B.Ed (Bachelor of Education) takes two years. From May 2027 most Ontario programs take about 12 months, three terms in a row, with a few such as Lakehead still two years. Years to qualify are now 4 to 6, sourced to the Ontario Tech, York and Lakehead program pages.
Prompted by: Our own research on Ontario teacher education programs.
Screen reader problems fixed, and five category colours darkened
Pages: Every page
The owner used the site with the NVDA screen reader, by ear and keyboard only, across ten tasks. Twenty-one problems were found and fixed: moving through a career's screens and the quiz now announces the new screen or question; the search boxes for careers, schools, programs and courses announce how many results match, move through them with the arrow keys and say what was added; "queens" now finds Queen's without the apostrophe; the deadline calendar's days say what is due; closing the menu or a dialog returns to the button that opened it; several buttons and links now say which career, course or service they are for. The health, business, engineering, creative and science colours were darkened so white text on them reaches 4.5 to 1 (they were 3.1 to 3.9 to 1).
Prompted by: The owner's screen reader pass, 26 October 2026, and a follow-up automated check.
Two site-wide pages brought up to date
Pages: /schools, /ca/how-to-use-careerhelp
The schools page said the comparer covers "2,531 first-year programs at all 51 Ontario universities"; 51 is the number across Canada, of which 23 are in Ontario, and it now says so. The how-to guide still described the student-reported admission marks removed on 25 October, in its text and its pictures; the text was rewritten and every Canadian picture retaken from the live site.
Prompted by: Our own review of every page that describes the site.
Every admission average now comes from the school itself
Pages: Canadian university pages, Program pages, Field pages, The comparer, The program finder
Admission averages reported by students on an unofficial spreadsheet were removed from the site. Every average shown, ranked or compared is now the school's own published figure, in its own words.
Prompted by: Our own review.
Text colours and markup brought up to WCAG 2.0 AA
Pages: Every page
Muted captions and small labels were at 3.2 to 1 against the cream background where the standard asks 4.5 to 1; they are now 5.5 to 1. Coral eyebrow text, the trades colour and two colours in the career comparer were darkened for the same reason. Description-list and list markup was corrected on the card tables, the US comparer and the quiz; every deck screen has a level-one heading; the Back button has a name on phones; the Ontario map is announced as a group because its markers are links.
Prompted by: Our own automated accessibility pass (axe rules, 33 page types at desktop and phone width), run for the service commitments.
When the site was started: September of Grade 12, not Grade 11
The owner's account said he started the site in Grade 11. The idea came in Grade 11; the building started in September of his Grade 12 year. Both pages and the schools document now say so.
Prompted by: The owner, reading the published text.
US test policies re-read on every school's own page
Pages: 215 US university pages, /us/compare, /us/program-finder, /us/guides/is-the-sat-optional
The policy for each of the 215 US universities had been taken from FairTest's list. All 215 were re-read on the schools' own admissions pages. Tuskegee requires a score (we said optional). Alaska Fairbanks says scores are not required, not that they are not considered (we said not considered). Nine schools say they encourage a score and are now shown as recommended rather than plain optional. Fifteen policies depend on a GPA or class-rank line, now shown in the school's words beside the policy. 194 pages cite the school's own page; the 21 whose sites refused automated reading keep FairTest's value and are named on the sources page.
Prompted by: Our own review: the new SAT guide's figures disagreed with three schools' pages, so every school was re-read.
Two source links repaired
Pages: /us/careers/phlebotomist, /us/guides/how-colleges-calculate-your-gpa
The phlebotomist page's certification link had been rewritten to a not-found page by the redirect fixer, which cut the address at a bracket; the original address was restored and the fixer corrected. The GPA guide's Wisconsin source had moved; it now points at the live page that carries the quoted sentences.
Prompted by: The scheduled link check.
"Easiest programs" ranked by the school's own figure
Pages: Canadian university pages, easiest and hardest programs
The easiest-programs list had not ranked by what the school asks for. It now ranks by the school's own published minimum or range, and shows one row per program stream instead of one per track.
Prompted by: Our own review while building the US score pages.
Demand ratings recomputed by one fixed rule
Pages: Every career page, Canada and the US, the careers-in-demand lists
Demand had been rated case by case. Every Canadian career now takes Job Bank's most common provincial three-year outlook, and every US career takes the federal 2025 to 2035 projection, applied by the same rule throughout. The demand sentences on each card were rewritten to match. The entrepreneur figures were rebuilt from IRS data, and the scam guide's figures were re-sourced to the FTC or put in plain words.
Prompted by: Our own review of how the ratings had been assigned.
Pay figures matched to the official surveys; unsourced pay removed
Pages: Every career page, Canada and the US, the finance, day-trading and online-careers guides, search answers
Every pay figure was checked against Job Bank (Canada) and the federal wage survey (US). Figures that did not match were replaced; figures with no official source were removed or labelled as estimates. Accountant now carries Job Bank's figures plus CPA Canada's 2025 study for designated accountants; electrician carries Job Bank's pay and is marked as paid from the first day of training. The guides and search answers were brought into line with the corrected career pages.
Prompted by: Our own audit of every pay figure against its source.
Career text corrected for Quebec
Pages: Canadian career pages in health, trades, transport, law and safety, education, business, engineering, science and hospitality
Statements that were true for Ontario but wrong for Quebec were corrected: engineering experience is 24 months in Quebec, not four years; the engineer title is reserved there; the librarian title is protected; English-as-a-second-language teaching has its own Quebec degree; guidance counselling is a professional order; accountant experience is 24 months; insurance adjusters always need an AMF certificate; and the financial-planning institute's name was updated. Funeral directors, settlement agencies, planning degrees, design titles and public-relations schools were corrected in the same pass.
Prompted by: A reader at a Quebec high school who wrote in about the Quebec system.
Training-cost floors and one salary corrected
Pages: 24 Canadian career pages (cost to train), one career page (pay)
Twenty-four Canadian cost figures answered "what is the cheapest school" where the US pages answered "what is the cheapest way anyone really gets this job"; they now answer the same question, so a database administrator is no longer shown as costing $8,300 to become in Canada and $300 in the US. Seven careers that genuinely require a degree were left as they were. One salary that was plainly wrong was replaced with the official figure.
Prompted by: Our own review of the cost cards.