Journalist
Education
The rise of seclusion rooms represents the failure of inclusion in schools
The Globe and Mail, March 2023
Why Canada’s corporal punishment law misses the mark
The Globe and Mail, January 2023
Educational assistants deserve a living wage
The end of year fizzle-out
The Globe and Mail, June 2022
Masks don't really have a downside
The Globe and Mail, March 2022
What's behind a school board blunder?
The Globe and Mail, November 2021
The post-pandemic classroom shouldn't be based around screens
The Globe and Mail, August 2021
There's too much screen time in the classroom
The Globe and Mail, November 2020
No child left behind
The Globe and Mail, September 2020
Home school: lessons from a pandemic
The Globe and Mail, March 2020
The real losers in the teachers strike
The Globe and Mail, January 2020
When kids dread recess, we have a problem
The Globe and Mail, February 2019
Removing class size caps doesn't solve problems
The Globe and Mail, January 2019
Doug Ford is failing on the education file
The Globe and Mail, August 2018
Absent teachers aren't solving problems - they're creating new ones
The Globe and Mail, June 2018
A hard lesson: the digital classroom can really fail
The Globe and Mail, May 2018
Our kids face real dangers – cartwheels and pizza aren’t among them
The Globe and Mail, September 2017
More Phys Ed in Schools!
The Globe and Mail, September 2017
Why do French Immersion, if it means more tutoring?
The Globe and Mail, March 2017
Report cards are failing parents and their kids
The Globe and Mail, June 2016
Lunchtime Lunacy
The Globe and Mail, November 2016
Banning cartwheels: what’s the point of recess with no fun?
The Globe and Mail, October 2015
Could WiFi in schools be harming our kids?
The Globe and Mail, May 2014
The Anti-Nut Nutiness
The Globe and Mail, February 2014
Urban Issues
Welcome the circular city
Corporate Knights, April 2023
Women lead the most sustainable cities
Corporate Knights, June 2022
Toronto's measures to prevent pedestrian deaths have fallen short
The Globe and Mail, November 2021
Driving past the point of no return
The Globe and Mail, December 2019
Why did our children stop walking to school?
The Globe and Mail, October 2019
Who's Doug Ford trying to please?
The Globe and Mail, May 2019
The home and school association
The Globe and Mail, November 2018
Lord of the Flies on Wheels
The Globe and Mail, November 2018
Kids in Public Transit - Who could object to that?
The Globe and Mail, September 2017
What is a fit penalty when a driver takes a pedestrian’s life?
The Globe and Mail, December 2016
Concrete Jungle
Corporate Knights, June 2016
Buerger Power
Corporate Knights, March 2016
Why the SUV mentality needs to change
The Globe and Mail, November 2015
Once Upon a City: R.C. Harris, the man behind the Bloor Street Viaduct
Toronto Star, July 2015
Slow Down
Toronto Life, May 2015
Once upon a time there was a Mayor
my blog, February 2014
Parenting
At the breaking point
The Globe and Mail, March 2021
Halloweening during a pandemic
The Globe and Mail, October 2020
Mothering during a pandemic
The Globe and Mail, May 2020
A parent's nightmare
The Globe and Mail, April 2019
Why I don’t shield my kids from the news
Today's Parent, September 2017.
The Story of Us was not a failure: ask my kids
The Globe and Mail, June 2017
Has Old-fashioned fun been trumped by fears of injury and liability?
CBC - Crosscountry Checkup, January 2016
Shelf the Elf!
The Globe and Mail, December 2015
Sometimes there are monsters under your bed
This was first heard on the Doc Project, CBC Radio, September 2015
Best Summer Ever
Cottage Life, July 2015
Take my kids, please!
Toronto Life, September 2012
National Magazine Award nomination
Climate
BASF quietly lobbies against strong climate policy while talking a big game
Corporate Knights, January 2023
How one company cut more carbon than any other on the planet
Corporate Knights, October 2022
Is geothermal energy finally seeing the light of day?
Corporate Knights, March 2022
Lusatia the Green
Corporate Knights, January 2022
Tamara Vrooman is banking on change
Corporate Knights, April 2021
Green recovery can build solidarity, if done right
Corporate Knights, September 2020
A holly, jolly Christmas - while the planet burns
The Globe and Mail, December 2018
Should we bury nuclear waste near the Great Lakes?
Cottage Life, May 2015
Israel’s fountain of youth
Corporate Knights, March 2015
Raising a greener glass
Corporate Knights, June 2014
Debating population
Corporate Knights, December 2013
Immigration
Far from Home
Chatelaine, November 2017.
Digital Publishing Award nomination
Canada’s two-tiered refugee system
The Globe and Mail , May 2016
Philanthropy
Meddling billionaires
Corporate Knights, October 2015
The Rich-Giving Paradox
Corporate Knights, January 2014
Our Home and Native Land
Canadians don’t know how to vacation
The Globe and Mail, March 2018
Amokfahrt in der Frühlingssonne von Toronto
Der Tagesspiegel, March 2018
No ‘fake Christmas’ in our house: Only a real tree will do
Globe and Mail, December 2017
Neither Rhyme nor Reason to Ontario’s beer sales “shake-up”
The Globe and Mail, December 2015
Front Lines, Home Fires
Cottage Life , Summer 2015
International Regional Magazine Award nomination
Bin ich schön?
ubuntu (SOS Kinderdörfer) April 2011
Dispatches from Germany
The Conscience of a Nation
National Post,November 2014
If music can’t change the world, maybe film can
The Globe and Mail, March 2009
Canadians come out strong at Berlinale
The Globe and Mail, February 2009
Procreative Prenzlauer Berg
Spiegel Online, August 2008
Who’s the Papa? Papers, please
The Ottawa Citizen, April 2008
Berlinale Bust or Buzz?
Spiegel Online, February 2008
Let There Be Light
The Walrus, December 2007
Get off my swing set, Grandma!
The Globe and Mail, May 2007
Ich bin ein (hammered) Berliner
The Globe and Mail, March 2007
All eyes are trained on Enemy
The Globe and Mail, February 2007
Requiem for Bruno: We bearly knew him
The Globe and Mail, July 2006
Visitor becomes unbearable
The Globe and Mail, June 2006
Spuddenfreude
The Walrus, June 2006
The medium is English
Sign and Sight, May 2006
Portman storms the Berlinale
The Globe and Mail, February 2006
Behind the Tent
The Walrus, February 2006
The Sound of Music
CBC Dispatches in December 2005.
Phillip Earl of Hessen meets the Fast Runner
CBC Dispatches in January 2005.
The sound of Snow in Berlin
The Globe and Mail, July 2002
All eyes are trained on Enemy
The Globe and Mail, February 2001
Love under Hitler
The Globe and Mail, January 2001