Friday, August 24, 2012

Stranger in a strange land

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They do look like TV people I was good at understanding how things worked in Canada, or thought I was. In Honduras, I often ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Scanners come to Bodega Gloria

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I had to walk home in the rain last week, because technology’s tentacles had reached Copan Ruinas. I buy fruit and vegetables in the...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Filling garbage bags with gasoline - what could go wrong?

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Canadian cross-border shopper filling garbage bags with gas. I worry sometimes that my blog posts are too critical of Honduras, especia...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Who was minding the ICBC store?

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A government internal audit has apparently discovered mismanagement at ICBC. The Crown corporation president is leaving, and it has pledged...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

The marketing folly of renaming Copan Ruinas

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President Lobo in Copan Ruinas    La Prensa As a stranger here, I struggle with how much to rely on my observations about Honduras, base...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Our man in Honduras and a gang truce

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Gang members, Adam Blackwell, in El Salvador jail      elsalvador.com Canadians don't make the papers in Honduras very often. Bu...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Pinatas at the wedding

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  Back from a weekend bus trip to Santa Rosa de Copan, a town about 105 kilometres away - or three-and-a-half hours. The roads aren't ...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

A tale of two sewage treatment debates, in Canada and Honduras

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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...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Riding the train of death from Honduras

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Every couple of days, a plane carrying discouraged Hondurans lands in San Pedro Sula or Tegucigalpa.  They aren’t business travellers,...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

And now, the hokey pokey, from Honduras

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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...

What Honduras needs most

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(Reposted, because I accidentally deleted the first version.) It's easy to see what's wrong in Honduras. It's hard to figu...
Friday, July 20, 2012

The bizarre cult of granite countertops

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What is it with granite countertops? I thought I had left them behind in Canada, slowly leaking radon gas into all those updated kitchens,...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Christy Clark three times as popular as President Lobo

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