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Monday, July 02, 2012

Health care in a poor country

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I'm still getting used to living in a really poor country. I know all the stats. I've been doing research for the last six days for ...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Héctor Delgado came to town, and we missed him

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What me missed I think we blew it last night, victims of shoddy research.  For the last while, posters have been up around Copan Ruina...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Thinking of Honduras as an African country

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I've been doing some research on Honduras for a project, and, while it's early days, I'm working toward a theory that would see ...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Living in the space between cultures

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We're finishing a brief trip back to Canada to visit friends and families and so my partner could pick up an honourary degree from the U...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Wise words from the doctor

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Dr. Jody Paterson: 'There's nothing saintly or special about social justice - it's just work.' We're back from Hondu...
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Sunday, June 03, 2012

A few acres of beans and corn, a cow that fell off a cliff: Farming in Honduras

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I’ve been reading about land occupations and protests in the Honduran papers since April 18, when several thousand campesinos and supp...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Swimming with the happy angels

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It's been a stretch without posting, and I'm not sure why. But today I headed to the piscina to help Jody on an outing with the orp...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Two dead pregnant women, and the war on drugs

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I meant to do a post last week, when the the New York Times carried a story saying the U.S. was taking the war on drugs into Honduras. DE...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Lost in Translation, or in conference with OCDIH

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Back from a two-day annual planning meeting with OCDIH, the agency I'm to help in Honduras, and I must say it went brilliantly. I su...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Starting from scratch in Honduras

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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...
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Monday, May 07, 2012

The Liberals and the point of no return

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Having been in the provincial press gallery during the collapse of public confidence in Glen Clark and the NDP, I can claim some familiarity...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Van Dongen raises a good question about the BC Rail scandal legal deal

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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....
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

My driving test in 2039

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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...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

The distinct allure of abandoning democracy in Honduran cities

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Three months ago, when I was new in Honduras, I probably would have dismissed the 'charter cities' idea pitched in a column in toda...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Byelections not great for Conservatives, or Liberals

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Four thoughts on the byelection results. First, New Democrats should obviously be pleased. Tidy campaigns, two wins, no apparent effect from...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

PIne beetle jobs disaster and government inaction (and secrecy)

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Independent MLA Bob Simpson yesterday raised questions about a government document forecasting half the forest jobs in the Interior would d...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The strange world of Honduran teachers

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There's no end of baffling stories in Honduran newspapers. Today, I read about a three-toed sloth - endangered here - rescued from a San...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

The politics of buying dead white men's clothes in Honduras

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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...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Semana Santa in Honduras

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We've made it through our first Semana Santa - Easter Week - in Copan Ruinas. It's a fascinating phenomenon. For starters, it's ...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

'When the premier speaks, we would rather her comments not be reported'

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