December 2011
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I like these things
You know those websites that your fingers automatically crawl to when you approach a computer with no clear directive in mind but amusement? These are mine.
Slate Magazine - General interest magazine. Come for the Dear Prudence, stay for the everything else.
Hark, A Vagrant! – My favourite comic strip. History, especially Canadian history, made clever and hilarious by the fantastic Kate...
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VLTs: Nova Scotia’s Million Dollar Gamble
My investigative workshop in j-school did a collaborative story on VLT gambling in Nova Scotia. It was a messy, frustrating process at times, but the end result was the coolest, most important thing I was involved with at King’s. My job was to track down people who had been affected by gambling, and go around the province interviewing them. The story won the Canadian Association of...
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Minas Basin: Taking leadership role in global...
Published in the Nova Scotia Business Journal, March 2011, which you can see here.
Protecting the environment and increasing revenue can seem like opposing goals, but one Nova Scotia paper company is achieving both at the same time. Minas Basin Pulp and Power sells carbon credits to buyers across North America, making money and helping other groups reach their carbon-reduction goals.
In a...
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African Nova Scotian organizations take lead role...
This was my first story for the Nova Scotia Business Journal in January 2011. You can see the full edition here.
Black cultural groups are gaining a competitive edge in time for the summer tourism season. The Black Business Initiative (BBI), along with provincial partners, has launched the Cultural Tourism Project, a program that will help African Nova Scotian organizations promote themselves as...
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Adrian Fish: A Buddhist of the Next Generation
This is a profile I did during my internship at Shambhala Sun magazine in 2010. You can see the post on their SunSpace blog here.
The current issue of the Shambhala Sun offers a look at young Buddhists and the issues, styles, and passions they’re bringing to their spiritual practice.
Here, Laura MacKenzie introduces us to Adrian Fish, a young Buddhist photographer. While working on a photography...
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Lives Lived: Margaret Vickery
Published in the 2010 edition of Tidings, the University of King’s College magazine. You can see the entire edition here.
Friends, family and former colleagues remember Margaret Catherine Vickery as an outgoing, nurturing woman, and a central character at the University of King’s College.
Vickery worked at King’s from 1979 to 1996 as a switchboard operator and secretary for the Bursar, Donald...
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LIBEL THAW
This was my honours project in the last year of my journalism degree. It was published in the King’s Journalism Review in the fall of 2009.
You can read it in the KJR here.
Truth can be hard to prove in court. A new defence could help journalists fight defamation suits if they prove they did everything they could to get it right.
In 1994, Harvey Cashore helped break one of the biggest...
An Introduction
Hello there. I’ve owned this domain since I was at journalism school, and a prof instructed us all to go buy our names as domains, because eventually, we would need them. I never did much with mine, but today, I wake like the Kraken! I’ll be putting up some stories that I’ve done, and hopefully posting more. Recipes, or essays, or comics, or photos! Who can say? How very...