Yep, that’s me. O’ Mother Where Art Thou? a piece on the realities of family life for female lawyers working on Bay Street, in Precedent’s winter 2009 issue, has been nominated for best feature at the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards. Woot! Woot! Precedent is also in the running for magazine of the year and three [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘journalism’
February 19, 2010
Why Turkey’s Southeastern villages are (Ilisu) damned
Find out why harnessing water is so dam important to the Turks in my article for the New Internationalist. See more photos from my journey to Turkey’s largest dam, the Ataturk, and the villages along the Tigris River slated for flooding here.
December 2, 2009
New chair of TDSB; Home for the Games; China welcomes Canuck bacon but shuns pigs; Spend stimulus or lose it say Feds; Monbiot says Canada biggest climate change criminal; UK’s crack rape team; Rwandan genocide banker jailed; Brit sailors freed by Iran
My morning newscast for CIUT 89.5FM – listen to today’s Take 5 show – and my best newscast yet – here In National News Last night’s election of Bruce Davis as chair of Toronto District School Board promises to strengthen director Chris Spence’s ambitious plan to makeover the Board with ideas like an all-boys learning [...]
October 27, 2009
Take 5 News: Voice for missing Aboriginal women under threat; Toronto tap water now with extra bacteria; Jarvis now Ted Rogers Way; Tory Senator ties to Quebec funding scandal; All-day kindergarten costs another $400 million in Ontario
Don’t turn out the light on missing women Federal Liberal critic for women’s issues, Anita Neville, is calling on the Conservative government to guarantee a renewal of the five-year mandate for Sisters in Spirit. The national organization has become the main voice for the epidemic of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. Neville’s call [...]
