Several readers drew my attention to this story about a group of British Columbia high schoolers who chanced to be in Haiti when the earthquake struck. They’ve been returned safely to Canada, and good for them. But the CP report contains one of the wackiest sentences I’ve ever read:

The group, which arrived in Montreal via military transport, was in Haiti on a mission to set up a goat farm in a town about 45 kilometres outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Even by the standards of Third World dysfunction, what country is such a basket case that it needs outside help to set up a goat farm?

[see also Kate McMillan]