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Mike Holmes, sex researchers & St Clair West

It’s great when articles you filed back in May finally come to fruition. Last spring, contractors across the country kindly answered my very basic questions about building closets, knocking out walls, and all things hot water tanks (winning hed: Go … Continue reading

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Canadian Business Press Award Nominee

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.  … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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National News for Take 5, CIUT, on Rememberance Day

National news stories as reported by me on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM this morning — and my photographs from the Service of Remembrance at the Soldier’s Tower, University of Toronto Think you’re biting into wild Pacific salmon? It’s probably … Continue reading

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