In a recognition of summer’s close I offer up this nostalgic glimpse into my wild & untamed youth, much of which was spent annually working at the Canadian National Exhibition.
That is me above, at 15 years, playing the Campbell’s Soup Girl. In the summer of 1985 I worked in the Food Building at the CNE, [...]

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While in Ghana this summer, I spent a couple days reconnoitering a remarkable neighborhood of Kumasi called Magazine. It’s a district of the city given over entirely to car mechanics and their parts suppliers. I haven’t found an official tally but I was given estimates of between 10,000-15,000 people working in the area, which is [...]

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While in Ghana this summer, I spent a couple days reconnoitering a remarkable neighborhood of Kumasi called Magazine. It’s a district of the city given over entirely to car mechanics and their parts suppliers. I haven’t found an official tally but I was given estimates of between 10,000-15,000 people working in the area, which [...]

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My feature on Turkey’s recent turmoil appears in the current issue of The Walrus. You can read the entire text online here. Also check out Carolyn Drake’s accompanying photo essay on Hasankeyf, an historic, predominantly Kurdish town in Turkey’s southeast potentially living out its last days. The entire area is slated to be flooded when [...]

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