Paying attention

I bought a T-shirt yesterday, my first clothing purchase in Honduras. It was overdue. We packed the night before we left, weighed our bags a...

We've made it through our first Semana Santa - Easter Week - in Copan Ruinas. It's a fascinating phenomenon. For starters, it's ...

North Shore News reporter Benjamin Alldritt has a great column on getting kicked out of a Christy Clark rally here . Allldrit got a personal...

Charlie Smith identifies one of Christy Clark's big problems in a Georgia Straight piece today. "With most politicians," Smit...

So, we have a woman who comes once a week to clean and do our laundry in the pila on the terrace. Pilas are a Honduran staple - a large conc...

We met our first Honduran campaigning politician on the weekend, likely the first of many given the nature of the process here. He was Migue...

John Van Dongen has accomplished something at least one very useful thing in reviving a discussion of the many unanswered questions in the B...

First, I don't buy the criticism John Van Dongen is just trying to keep a job in politics and thinks he would lose as a Liberal in his r...

Canada made the news in Honduras again this week, in a confusing kind of way, after a visit by junior foreign affairs minister Diane Abloncz...

I’d noticed a lot of cars driving around without licence plates, but figured it was just another aspect of the casual approach to laws in Ho...

West Edmonton Mall is selling its fleet of submarines , an opportunity that the Canadian Navy has somehow failed to seize. After all, the fo...

Jody Paterson left the regular Monday morning devotional at her Honduran workplace not quite so enthused about the warmth and sharing. ...

I’ve done a lot of business analysis exercises over the years, but never one where African killer bees showed up on the list of threats and ...

Lively read from Harvey Oberfeld on the controversy over Christy Clark's refusal to take questions from the media at a Vancouver photo ...

I spent the last two days at a workshop for small producers, mostly agricultural, in Honduras. (I'll write something in the next day or ...

Great news, my partner said. I'm going along with a church group doing a water project to see how it works, and you can come. CASM, the ...

It's been a big news week in Honduras. Joe Biden was in town. And what everybody wanted to talk about was the war on drugs. Some wanted ...

There has been a remarkable amount of vitriol from those who blame the current educational mess on the Liberal government or the B.C. Teache...

I'm reading the Honduran newspapers every day - either El Tiempo or La Prensa - to work on my Spanish and learn about the country. Some ...

Maybe Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger should try to be an elected representative in Honduras. His lack of understanding of the importance an indep...