Selected Work

Investigations

National Defence plans to solve its housing crunch by developing contaminated sites, The Narwhal

🏆National Newspaper Award Nominee

Is contamination on a Canadian Armed Forces base making employees sick?, The Narwhal

🏆Canadian Online Publishing Awards Best Investigative Article (Gold)

Your neighbourhood gas station could be making you sick, Canada’s National Observer

A Mississauga factory is using a known carcinogen. Residents had no idea, The Narwhal

Chemicals are forever: a new factory opens near Lake Nipissing, where water is already contaminated, The Narwhal

Science & Environment

Tiny Invaders of Canoe Country: Spiny Water Fleas, ON Nature Magazine

Lake Superior’s Cruise Ship Problem, The Walrus

Canada’s biggest sustainable forest label has a clear-cutting problem, Corporate Knights

Lisbon’s COVID-19 Dolphin Resurgence is Coming to an End, BioGraphic

End Times at Ontario’s Roadside Zoos, The Local

🏆National Magazine Award and Digital Publishing Award Nominee

People & Place

Northern Ontario has become an unlikely film and TV production hotspot, The Logic

Dating Is Hard. Dating in Northern Ontario Is Something Else, The Walrus

Under its wing: How Shawanaga First Nation is protecting a key endangered species, The Narwhal

🏆Canadian Online Publishing Awards Best Feel Good Story (Silver)

Squeaky wheel with data: How Nipissing First Nation is healing environmental damage, The Narwhal

🏆Canadian Online Publishing Awards, Best Feel Good Story (Gold)

In North Bay, a pancake breakfast raises questions about inaccessible health care, TVO Today

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