Archive for February, 2010

Pretty soon, they’ll want to vote, too…

So, Team Canada’s women hockey players celebrated their gold medal win with champagne, beer and cigars on the ice, after everyone else cleared out. That seems like a pretty tame celebration by Vancouver standards. Still, the photos caused some pearl-clutching south of the border and hit the headlines of almost every major news organization. [...]

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Haiti: On Roads and Recovery

It’s been almost a month since the earthquake that hit Haiti threw that country into chaos. It’s natural to take a look back, take stock of the response to the disaster and what lessons are to be learned.
Some say that Haiti shows that we need an international relief agency that can coordinate these kinds of [...]

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