The antics of the Toronto Port Authority board are usually hard for media to ignore.

Until last week, the Star was doing a pretty good job, cooking up positive spin for the TPA’s (now shelved) plans for a pedestrian tunnel to the Island Airport and for Porter Airlines’ sky-high dreams of expansion.

But charges that the board allegedly altered its minutes proved too tasty for the TPA-friendly Star to resist. The paper is, after all, in a newspaper war. And so Storm In The Port, a three-part series, was unleashed.

Now the TPA is demanding that the newspaper print corrections of “errors and falsehoods.” Those allegedly altered TPA board minutes the Star raised questions about, along with the expenses of former TPA head and current Harper cabinet minister Lisa Raitt, hit a nerve.

The TPA’s reaction was swift – a detailed rebuttal of what it says were five errors in the first two stories in the series. 

When one correction appeared on page 2 of the paper’s Saturday edition, but the promised third article did not, it looked like the Star had decided to spike it.

The TPA said as much in a statement Monday, November 9, reiterating its call for corrections, this time claiming the Star had made nine errors. 

On Tuesday, the Star published the third article, on the TPA’s media guru, one-time Liberal party strategist and self-described “top Canadian spin doctor” Warren Kinsella. Old news.

The Star’s director of communications, Bob Hepburn, says the last in the series was published late because additional reporting needed to be done.

The Star, he says, stands by the series.