Angel >> Melca Salvador After an eight-month battle, the tenacious Filipina who came to Canada under the strongly criticized Live-in Caregiver Program and faced deportation when she became pregnant has finally won the chance to stay in Canada. Immigration Canada has approved her application on humanitarian and compassionate grounds and has granted Salvador a one-year open work permit. For those who know how easy it is to become paralyzed in the face of overwhelming bureaucracy and indifference, Salvador's persistence and success is a remarkable victory.

Insect >> CIDA Once again, ignorance and the bottom line lend fodder to anti-globalizationists' claims that Western countries are only harming developing nations. As reported in Monday's Gazette, a $500-million West African dam project, supported by the Canadian International Development Agency along with European investors, has created more disaster than it solved. Critics attribute the proliferation of water-borne diseases, outbreaks of war over water rights, and the loss of traditional farming methods that have left many local farmers in debt to the Manantali hydro-electric dam project. Canada has so far spent a reported $80-million on the project, at least half of which went to Canadian companies such as Hydro-Québec.