# Huffington Post Canada

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huffington-post-canada/583302>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 26, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huffington-post-canada/583302 "2011-05-26T15:41:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huffington-post-canada/583302/1 "2011-05-26T15:41:33Z")

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I was checking the Huffington post out today, and darned if it didn’t pop up with a bunch of Canadian stories on the front page! I was momentarily baffled, until I figured out that they are launching a special Canadian site www.huffingtonpost.ca

So much for keeping out of the spotlight…

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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huffington-post-canada/583302/2 "2011-05-26T15:50:30Z")

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Hmmmmm…

It seems that there is an automatic redirect from [huffingtonpost.com](http://huffingtonpost.com) to huffingtonpost.ca if your IP address is in Canada. I cannot get to [huffingtonpost.com](http://huffingtonpost.com). At all.

The comments on the page are not reflecting happpiness:

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> “Just a heads up - Canadians don’t go to Huffington post for Canadian news.”

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> “I don’t mind the Canadian content, I do mind being automatically redirected to the Canadian address simply due to my location. Shouldn’t that be my choice?”

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> "I don’t want to be automatically directed to a website I DID NOT CHOOSE. Give Canadians a choice like Yahoo and many other sites. Until you change this policy my family and I are signing off! Thanks for the epic fail! "

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> "Based on reader responses, the thought that Canadian readers will be “grateful” to have their own Canadian HF is a huge misfire - if they could not get the original version. It’s another Cherry Coke idea. They go for Canadian news at their Canadian news sites. "

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> Harvard Business Review should write this up as another case study on how managerial decisions so often misread their customers.

Oh Oh.