Paying attention

Another excellent story by Sarah Petrescu in the Times Colonist on cuts to services for sex workers in Victoria, despite all the findings ...

Safely back in Copan Ruinas after two weeks in Canada and the northwest U.S., and still thinking about differences between the countries. ...

I’ve written about how desperate Hondurans are to make it to North America, about the risks they take, including riding La Bestia , a fre...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...