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Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, development researcher, anthropologist, and award-winning author with more than three decades of international experience, much of it on the African continent.

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Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, development researcher, anthropologist, and award-winning author with more than three decades of international experience, much of it on the African continent.

Recent Posts

  • Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”
  • “Please don’t sell Nova Scotia:” Additional taxes on non-resident landowners have been discussed since the 1960s. Now the debate is on again as non-residents snap up property in Cape Breton.
  • Developers are selling off Cape Breton, one subdivision after the other, to German-speaking non-residents? What — if anything — is wrong with that?
  • Marketing Cape Breton as a “refuge” for “clear thinkers.” Development companies selling properties to German-speaking non-residents who “want to live with the values of Germany from 1933 to 1945.”
  • “It pains me to tell you that the image of Canada is severely damaged:” damning testimony in a new book reveals the horrific record of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala

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