Paying attention

La Prensa I've been following two sewage treatment debates this week, in Victoria, where I used to live, and San Pedro Sula, about t...

Every couple of days, a plane carrying discouraged Hondurans lands in San Pedro Sula or Tegucigalpa.  They aren’t business travellers,...

My partner, Jody Paterson, has been helping out the local orphanage/foster home, a fairly grim place. I have been doing a little too, mostly...

(Reposted, because I accidentally deleted the first version.) It's easy to see what's wrong in Honduras. It's hard to figu...

What is it with granite countertops? I thought I had left them behind in Canada, slowly leaking radon gas into all those updated kitchens,...

OK, Christy Clark's approval rating in the latest Angus Reid poll is worrying for Liberals. Only 28 per cent of British Columbians appro...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...