The case of the sausage-fingered man
I’m in the Munich airport, on my way home. Hopefully I’ll blog more when I’m back in Canada. In the meantime, here’s a post I wrote for Kosovo 2.0, a multilingual magazine currently planning their...
View ArticleReview: Travels in Siberia
While I was away, the Journal published my review of Ian Frazier’s Travels in Siberia. I’ve posted it below. (Original link here.) Travels in Siberia Ian Frazier, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 529 pp;...
View ArticleMarching for Gaddafi in Belgrade
I wrote this story from Belgrade for Postmedia News, the wire I worked for back when it was Canwest News Service. As far as I can tell the piece was picked up by zero papers. I blame . . . me?...
View ArticleKai Nagata, Janet Malcolm and Journalism Today
Just about everyone in Canadian journalism has had something to say this week about Kai Nagata’s now infamous cris de coeur. I don’t have much to add really. But I do think people should know he’s not...
View ArticleHome News
When I was in Kosovo earlier this year I met an American journalist named Nate Tabak. Nate was quite good to me during my time in the Balkans. He introduced me around and let me move into his...
View ArticleTopics on which I have written lately, featuring the West Edmonton Mall,...
Longtime no blog, intermittent readers. But I have been writing elsewhere. Some highlights: a short piece on former Harper spin chief Dimitri Soudas; a slightly longer one on the Edmonton family...
View ArticleUpdates abound
Check out the new “about” section for stuff about me that is slightly more current. Plus, new clips in both “reporting” and “criticism.”
View ArticleSelf-Serving Updates Vol. 1
Hello, rare readers. I have even rarer news: I won an award. A series I wrote for the Tyee, published in May, won a gold medal at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in the best online-only article...
View ArticleNew job, new blog post
Hello occasional Googlers of my name! I have a new job and some other news. After two years, I’ve left Canadian Business, which remains a lovely place full of lovely people, for the National Post. I...
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