Short-sighted, bad timing on Niger aid
North Americans didn't follow Carter's plea to turn down thermostats, choose conservation over consumption and opt for public transit over gas-guzzlers.
How ironic that Niger and Burkina Faso—two of the word's poorest countries and credited with playing a major role in the freeing of kidnapped Canadians Robert Fowler and Louis Guay—had just been unceremoniously dropped by the Harper government from the list of countries eligible to re...
