This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Haida Gwaii Observer newspaper in May 2020.   ___   There are many good reasons to know your tides on Haida Gwaii. Safe navigation, improving fish catch, and in the case of Natasha Lavdovsky, successfully filming a timelapse for a new, art-meets-apocalypse music video. The Victoria-born, […]

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Smithers Interior News newspaper in April 2019.   ___   Checking for spiders, scooping out stones, there are only so many reasons to look inside a shoe. Unless you drive up the dusty, winding Kitseguecla Lake Road 30 km west of Smithers to see the shoe […]

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Prince Rupert Northern View newspaper in March 2019.   ___   Prince Rupert could be going to war with Smithers. That’s if members of the Society for Creative Anachronism decide to play it that way.   The territorial conflict comes after 10 medieval-minded Rupertites held an […]

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Prince Rupert Northern View newspaper in 2019.   ___   Coastal Shellfish hopes to have 15 million farmed scallops in the ocean this year.   “That’s one, five million,” Provan Crump confirmed over the noise of pumps and running water at the hatchery on Wednesday, Feb. […]

This department lead was originally published in the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine in May 2015.   ___   Futurists predict that by the year 2025, the Gigabit Age will have arrived, bringing with it everything from Oculus-like headsets to holodecks to 3-D printed recyclable clothing to immersive 3-D porn.   Plus Skype won’t break up […]

This cover story was originally published as part of the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine in May 2014.   ___   They say some things are best kept secret. Well, try saying that when testifying in front of an ad-hoc public inquiry. As far as Alexander Lucas, Calgary’s mayor in 1892, was concerned, it’s best not […]

This feature was originally published on the Toronto Star’s Africa Without Maps blog in 2012.   ___   Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in the Nkalo village, it grows near one.   In the centre of the village, a tree has become the site of new financial freedom and empowerment for local women—an outdoor […]