The broken foot belongs to our esteemed Web Editor Carl Hall. While there’s cause for empathy, there’s no cause for alarm. Carl Hall is young and tough (aside from brilliant) and his broken right foot is, as they say in Swahili, well on-the-mend.
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Words of caution
We’ve got a lot in this edition, so much that we’ve introduced Files to reduce the space on our cover. For example we have a Cuba File, a Clinton File, and there will be more.
The Cuba File is of interest because it reveals the economic and political salivating that’s going on because of the ill health and resignation as president of Fidel Castro. I’ll let the articles speak for themselves except to underline that a buck is not a buck in Cuba. When the Washington Post article gives wage numbers it doesn’t include the fact that food at government markets is very inexpensive, that housing costs are also very low, and that you can become a doctor or nurse in one of the most prestigious medical training and practicing systems in the world without paying a cent (or should I say peso) for tuition. Education is free in Cuba from start to finish. Wrongheaded American policy has tried to crush the Cuban experiment, to Canada’s advantage. Read more about the latter in the Cuban File.
Meanwhile, let honesty prevail — it will contribute strongly to a better world for our children.
Looking forward
Carl Dow
Editor and Publisher
True North Perspective