Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Lawlessness and instability in Haiti keep getting worse.

It's a country that suffered even more from natural disasters than it has from bad governance

and international aid has poured in for decades, so why hasn't all that cash improved Haiti's

situation?

And if you know it at all, you probably know it from doctors offices.

Readers digest as of this month been around for a century, so far defying the death spiral

of so many print magazines.

We look into how it got its start and why it stuck around.

Just up though.

In the center of Ottawa, Canada's capital protests led by truck drivers are into their

third week, keeping the city at a noisy standstill.

It began as a gripe against a government requirement that truckers entering Canada show

proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

But it's grown into far wider anti-government protests in Canada and elsewhere.

So, are you guys truck drivers?

Yes.

Carly Wana writes for the economist and was in the freezing temperatures of Ottawa last

night.

Among those she spoke to was Sean, a trucker who said he'd joined the protest after a

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