Journalist
The return of the collective economy
Corporate Knights, June 2025
Ken Dryden's long game
Corporate Knights, June 2025
How to pull off a corporate transformation
Corporate Knights, May 2025
Can fossil fuel lobbyists be blocked from global climate talks?
Corporate Knights, January 2025
Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance
Corporate Knights, June 2024
The backroom battle for Canada's climate future
Corporate Knights, May 2024
How Newfoundland is becoming a green hydrogen hotbed
Corporate Knights, April 2024
The urban tree revolution that's underway in North America
Corporate Knights, April 2024
How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers
Corporate Knights, January 2024
How green the MBA
Corporate Knights, November 2023
Kathy Bardswick: leading Canada's sustainable finance reform
Corporate Knights, July 2023
The ascent of the activist accountant
Corporate Knights, June 2023
Meet the man calling out Big Tech's climate hypocrisy
Corporate Knights, June 2023
Welcome to the circular city
Corporate Knights, April 2023
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
Women lead the most sustainable cities
Corporate Knights, June 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
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
Climate/Sustainability
Urban Issues
Welcome to 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
SUVs are killing the planet - and pedestrians
The Globe and Mail, December 2019
Why did our children stop walking to school?
The Globe and Mail, October 2019
Doug Ford: Moving Toward What?
The Globe and Mail, May 2019
A lesson in homelessness
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
Why the SUV mentality needs to change
The Globe and Mail, November 2015
Slow Down
Toronto Life, May 2015
Education
Ontarians: what about education?
The Globe and Mail, February 2025
Should students be sent to rallies?
The Globe and Mail, September 2024
Home Improvement
The Globe and Mail, August 2024
School boards are not innocent in the social media crisis
The Globe and Mail, April 2024
No really: Hold the Phone
The Globe and Mail, January 2024
Hold the Phone
The Globe and Mail, September 2023
Podcast: smartphone use is out of control
The Big Story, October 2023
The fallacy 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 June opt-out
The Globe and Mail, June 2022
The lesser evil that are masks
The Globe and Mail, March 2022
The emptiness of school board "equity"
The Globe and Mail, November 2021
A pandemic hangover: screens take the classroom
The Globe and Mail, August 2021
Technology is killing education
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
Doug Ford's government: for which people?
The Globe and Mail, January 2020
When did recess become a problem?
The Globe and Mail, February 2019
Size matters in education
The Globe and Mail, January 2019
Doug Ford is failing on the education file
The Globe and Mail, August 2018
The problem of absent teachers
The Globe and Mail, June 2018
The digital classroom gets failing marks
The Globe and Mail, May 2018
Our kids face real dangers – cartwheels and pizza aren’t among them
The Globe and Mail, September 2017
There's nothing optional about phys ed
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
Parenting
Youth violence is on the rise: is social media to blame?
The Globe and Mail, December 2024
At the breaking point
The Globe and Mail, March 2021
Trick or treat, no matter what
The Globe and Mail, October 2020
Mothering during a pandemic
The Globe and Mail, May 2020
Abduction: a parent's worst 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
Human Rights (from CHRC reports)
Financialisation of Housing
Algorithmic Policing
Climate Change and Human Rights
Bots at the Borders
Tackling Homelessness
Social determinants of health
Where disability and hunger meet
Migrants in Detention
No support on reserve
Philanthropy
Meddling billionaires
Corporate Knights, October 2015
The Rich-Giving Paradox
Corporate Knights, January 2014
Our Home and Native Land
Return to Tremblant
Ski Canada, November 2023
The last flight of Ariel V
Cottage Life, August 2023
Far from Home
Chatelaine, November 2017
Digital Publishing Award nomination
Canadians don’t know how to vacation
The Globe and Mail, March 2018
Oh Christmas Tree
The Globe and Mail, December 2017
Canada's two-tiered refugee system
The Globe and Mail, December 2017
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