Google Responds To Misattributed Content Saying They May Show The Canonicalized URL

A few weeks ago, we reported on cases where Google was misattributing content for select news publishers.
We showed examples of Google showing URLs of large news publishers but those URLs listed were not the source URLs and thus, redirecting from Google’s search results to a completely different URL.
Yesterday, a few weeks after we reported the issue, Google’s Matt Cutts responded to us saying:

In response to URL or site: queries, we occasionally show URLs that would otherwise be canonicalized to a different URL.