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Kudos to Babylon Project for providing a thorough rundown of current news from Haiti. If only commercial media sources such as the Star were willing to discuss any of the facts surrounding Canada's involvement...rather than discussing Canada's current involvement with pablum like this:

Right now, Canada's largest commitment in the Latin American-Caribbean region is in Haiti, which hopes to go to the polls next month.

Canada has spent $180 million over two years for reconstruction and development in Haiti, has committed 100 civilian police officers to a United Nations stabilization force and plans to send 300 observers to oversee elections in that country.

Apparently in the Star's view, any acknowledgement of the darker side of Canada's "soft power" involvement would be out of place in determining what role Harper should pursue within the hemisphere. Unfortunately, with that position apparently reflecting a consensus among far too much of Canada's media, it seems all too likely that Harper will be able to get away with maintaining Canada's status as an accomplice to the suppression still occurring in Haiti.