Paying attention

From New York Times I wrote not long ago about the plan - or hope, anyway - for charter cities in Honduras. The idea is that all the cur...

Having been in the provincial press gallery during the collapse of public confidence in Glen Clark and the NDP, I can claim some familiarity...

I might have considered MLA John van Dongen's questions on the $6-million payment of the legal fees of  Dave Basi and Bob Virk in the B....

My dad passed his driving test on his 87th birthday Friday in Medicine Hat. My mum passed her's earlier this year. Good going for both...

Three months ago, when I was new in Honduras, I probably would have dismissed the 'charter cities' idea pitched in a column in toda...

Four thoughts on the byelection results. First, New Democrats should obviously be pleased. Tidy campaigns, two wins, no apparent effect from...

Independent MLA Bob Simpson yesterday raised questions about a government document forecasting half the forest jobs in the Interior would d...

There's no end of baffling stories in Honduran newspapers. Today, I read about a three-toed sloth - endangered here - rescued from a San...

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. ...