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Digital journalist with CBC News. Previous stints at newspapers, magazines and broadcasting companies in Halifax, Ottawa, Tokyo and Dubai.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined April 2009
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How can journalists covering immigration prepare for the incoming presidential administration? Develop expert sources. Familiarize yourself with the intricacies of immigration law. Read the data. Gather research tools. Start here: poynter.org/reporting-editin…
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“As of right now, every piece of information that we have is already lost.” My story on a future technology that’s already reshaping cybersecurity around the world. For @CIGIonline cigionline.org/articles/q-da…
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For our January/February 2024 issue, The Atlantic examined Donald Trump’s bid for reelection, and the potential ramifications of a second Trump term. Read essays from 24 contributors here: theatlantic.com/if-trump-win…
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This is the best book I've read in a really long time. Go listen to our chat and buy "The Tech Coup"
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‘Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s climate-fighting forests reut.rs/4ecuVT7
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Shootings, arson, gangland executions...Toronto is on edge because rival tow-truck gangs have fueled a 50% rise in Toronto shootings, mostly with guns smuggled from the U.S. wsj.com/world/americas/toron… via @WSJ
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Kamala Harris’ Westmount High School yearbook entry. She graduated in 1981 after moving to Montreal at age 12.
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"Video is becoming a more important source of online news, especially with younger groups. Most consumption is done on online platforms (72%) increasing the challenges around monetisation and connection #DNR24 Key findings in video Read the report in full digitalnewsreport.org/2024
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Putting the candidates aside for a moment, @CNN has performed poorly — the “moderators” are anything but. No substantive follow-up; no push-back to dozens of lies; no pressuring to actually answer stated questions. Silence. A real disservice to the American people.
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Manulife chief economist Frances Donald says it is going to take at least a decade before housing in Canada gets to affordable levels. She says Canada is struggling, and what require low rates relative to the US for an extended period. On WSJ wires:
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Some Canadian provinces logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, prompting at least one province to build a new storage facility, with demand for memorial fundraisers surging and funeral costs growing reut.rs/3K5KE9x
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“Opposing authoritarian regimes is not easy, so you need to have all the tools in the toolkit that you see history provides.” Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring a conversation with Stephen Kotkin: trib.al/xMCZWqM
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A superb interview by @onthemedia's @OTMBrooke with acclaimed war photojournalist @lynseyaddario about the new movie "Civil War." (I've seen it and have so many thoughts.) Don't miss this conversation: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm…
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This interview by @ezraklein of (my ex-editor) Adam Moss about his new book The Work of Art may be the best, most lucid, earthbound & maybe even useful conversation I’ve heard about the creative process. Wanted the book before, now getting it ASAP. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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In a critical election year, the @BBC has launched its first brand campaign outside the U.K. to position itself as a more trusted news source in the U.S. and international markets. adweek.it/3Qg4t1E
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Read a new interview with the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, on the the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course. nyer.cm/qz5cQ6a
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CNN’s live coverage of the man who set himself on fire near the courthouse where Donald Trump was being tried drew both praise and criticism of the legal analyst and anchor, Laura Coates, and the network’s split-second decision to show the graphic footage. nyti.ms/3UojQay
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