Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Grimmer news for League Investors - some $355 million of their money gone

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The news keep getting worse for investors in Victoria-based League Assets. And the financial disaster is still not getting adequate media c...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Honduras: The new president gets a lavish swearing-in

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There’s a certain over-the-top, bread and circuses aspect to tomorrow’s ceremonies for the swearing in of the new president of Honduras. ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

The strange obsession with school uniforms in Honduras

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I’ve come up with a clever, no-cost way to reduce poverty and increase school attendance in Honduras. Get rid of school uniforms. The u...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Another bad quarter for Postmedia, and a plan that's not working

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The latest grim quarterly report from Postmedia sharpens questions about the company’s future. Continuing declines in revenue and circul...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Tax increases in Honduras, and linking aid to fair, effective tax policies

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Taxes are big news in Honduras, as the outgoing Congress pushes through a bunch of last-minute increases. The Congress is controlled by t...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Gildan, maquillas, model cities and simplistic responses to complex problems

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It’s amazing how simple the problems of Honduras seem to some people a few thousand kilometres away. A handful of slogans, some recycled ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Update: Shaky Honduran election process adds to challenges for winner Juan Orlando

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It appears Juan Orlando Hernandez has won the Honduran presidential election for his National Party.  Libre is challenging the results an...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

With half Honduran votes counted, two candidates claim victory

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Juan Orlando Hernandez (centre, white shirt) leads supporters in election night prayer It’s never a great thing when two candidates cl...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

League group collapse likely to cost investors $320 million

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The collapse of Victoria-based League Assets, unfolding in grim fashion in B.C. Supreme Court, isn’t getting nearly enough media attention....
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Bono 10,000: Is giving poor Hondurans money creating real change?

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President Porfirio Lobo hands out the Bonos... and helps his party's election campaign Instead of all those complicated, multi-year...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

VLTs on ferries open door to new wave of gambling expansion

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The B.C. government’s idea of putting VLTs on the ferries so people would lose money - on top of the soaring fares - looked at first like a...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

In Honduras and Canada, the strange political silence on inequality

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Ten days left until the Honduran national elections, and I’m thinking about inequality. It’s stunning in Honduras. There are the obvious ...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Six thoughts about the Rob Ford disaster

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I’ve resisted adding to the flood of words about Rob Ford. But no more. Here are six thoughts. First, this is sad. Ford, as a human being...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

The anti-regulation crowd should visit Ciudad de Angel

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Governments of a certain stripe are always complaining about red tape, those darn regulations that stop people and businesses from gettin...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Another grim year for Postmedia, and what lies ahead

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It’s tough to pick the biggest problem for Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper company. And it’s just as hard to figure out where the cor...
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