Paying attention

OK, I didn’t really kill newspapers. But my career began when newspapers were doing extraordinarily well, and continued as they did les...

Found myself in a lively Twitter exchange today about the future of newspapers, sparked in part by Postmedia’s grisly quarterly report. T...

The mass protests in Brazil are big news down here. In part, Brazilians are mad that the government is spending billions to host the World ...

I’d certainly argue that you don’t have to believe in God to help others. It seems a natural thing to to do for any thinking, feeling creat...

Another grisly warning from the U.S. government  this week about travel to Honduras, and an off-key response from the Honduran government....

Score for one for competent, responsible journalism. A communications officer in the Prime Minister’s Office sent an email to The Advance...

Useful editorial in the Times Colonist today on the big increases in salary scales for political staffers in the Christy Clark government...

I came across the Mona Lisa with a pink gun on a wall near a Tegucigalpa hotel on a previous visit. The work is part of a series by a H...

You can draw a straight line from the Canadian government’s stupid and cynical drug policies to crime here in Honduras. Canada and the U....

It’s been striking how much of the commentary about Honduras in the world press or blogland seems to hit the same strings of clichés, shu...

Gang members, Adam Blackwell, in El Salvador jail The big news in Honduras this week is a gang truce, with a Canadian connection. The d...

I believe market forces and the pursuit of profits often bring creativity and innovation. But not so much for health care. The problem wa...

Sometimes news stories just set off all kinds of alarm bells. Honduras has apparently learned from Japan’s bogus scientific whaling progr...

The Honduran National Gallery of Art locked its doors this week. The government hasn’t provided any money since January. Staff hav...