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Thursday, August 01, 2013

Desperate people, Canadian dreams and the lowest kind of predators

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Backpacks ready for a trip to Canada that won't happen Heartbreaking photo in La Prensa this week of devastated campesinos who had ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

'Nini' youth - not in school, not working - symptom of a failing country

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Parents have to buy uniforms; government doesn't have to buy desks You know a problem has become critical when it gets a snappy nam...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Razor wire, guns and crime: Judging risk in the big city

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Spent the weekend in Tegucigalpa, which almost always gets me thinking about crime in Honduras. It’s hard to avoid. The small hotel we ...
Monday, July 15, 2013

A smarter way to deal with Honduran migrants

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The flood of Hondurans trying to make it to the United States has become crazy. Honduras is opening a diplomatic office in the border c...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

How to save newspapers

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I’ve painted a grim future for newspapers in the last few posts. So what can be done? One option for companies is to cash out. Cut cost...
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Sunday, July 07, 2013

How I killed newspapers, Part Three: The bad news

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Newspapers will find a way out of these bleak times, some journalists maintain. Here’s hoping. But the situation is grim and there’s no c...
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Thursday, July 04, 2013

How I killed newspapers, Part Two

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OK, I didn’t really kill newspapers. But my career began when newspapers were doing extraordinarily well, and continued as they did les...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

How I killed newspapers: Part One

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Found myself in a lively Twitter exchange today about the future of newspapers, sparked in part by Postmedia’s grisly quarterly report. T...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Where have all those post-Olympic tourists gone?

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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 ...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

You don't have to be religious to help - but the people who do mostly seem to be

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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...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

The Honduras' crime problem and 'advisories'

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Another grisly warning from the U.S. government  this week about travel to Honduras, and an off-key response from the Honduran government....
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Laurie Watt scores a win for real journalism over sycophancy

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