Author: Wendy Holm

Cuba - Current Issues

Mavis our heart is proudly broken. You will remain our hero forever…

Wendy Holm

Mavis was truly my Cuban sister. She was my hero. She was brave and strong and principled and funny and kind and when she walked into a room the room was better for it. When I was not with a group, I was with Mavis. And Mavis became my teacher. Sitting on the stool in her kitchen, she shared her stories of the Cuban countryside and fed me the dishes she learned from her mother in Palma Soriano. As ANAP’s Head of International relations, Mavis took my groups of visiting Canadian farmers under her protective wing in 2002 and ANAP … Continue reading Mavis our heart is proudly broken. You will remain our hero forever…

Hot Topics, Uncategorized, Water - Site C, Water and Trade

Want a selfie of you with Trump’s tap?

Wendy Holm

Canada’s discussion  of Trump’s designs on our water has been focused – in the West – on the Columbia. But it is the Peace River that connects the dots to fulfill the long term dream of USACE engineers to bring northern water south to American communities east of the Rockies. Want a selfie of you with THE TAP? Go to Dunvegan, Alberta, just on the border of BC. Future site of the Amisk Dam, designed as the “elbow” that will siphon off water from the north-flowing Peace River and send it flowing south. Conveniently, all the upstream storage capacity is … Continue reading Want a selfie of you with Trump’s tap?

Cuba - Current Issues, Hot Topics

Captured by Magic

Wendy Holm

March 2025 Magic sneaks up on you, and all of a sudden you are immersed in it. Like a child in a bubble bath, you find yourself surrounded in and delighted by the magic that happens when good people do good things.   Such was my experience taking 13 Canadians to Cuba in January 2025.   One traveller brought with them the book Infectious Generosity, which they shared with the rest of us.  It quickly began to feel like our theme… Even before we left, there was the spontaneous donation of $1,000 CAD from a dairy farmer couple in Ontario who had … Continue reading Captured by Magic