Wente’s column in the Saturday TGAM talks about Leaving the Old Economy behind (RIM’s world is our future, GM’s world is our past).

She juxtaposes GM’s woes with Lazaridis’s extra donation to Perimeter. And to describe where the Institute is she says this:

The Perimeter Institute occupies a light-filled building in a non-descript suburb of Waterloo, not far from the cornfields.

Which is a strange thing to say because it is in the middle of Waterloo, in the core, and probably the furthest from cornfields as you can get in Waterloo (Union Street is probably the furthest.)

So it is not a suburb and it is only non-descript to her because she is apparently unable to describe it.
If she glosses over facts like this, how can I rely on other things she writes.

It is like a few years ago when Wells, writing about Perimeter, said that the Institue was “a few blocks” from the Transylvania Club.