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Enter The Holy Now, The Walrus (June/July 2009)
How African Pentecostalism is going global.

African Gothic, Maisonneuve (Spring 2009)
After decades of international aid and global trade, many African farmers are still only one step ahead of starvation.

The Can-Do Spirit, Azure (June 2009)
Sanjeev Shankar and the everyday artfulness of Jugaad.

Good Will Funding, Unlimited (March 2009)
Can social entrepreneurs and venture philanthropists do for the Third World what NGOs before them haven’t?

In Burgeoning Ghana, a Case of Too Many Chiefs, Globe and Mail (December 6, 2008)
The West African’s nation’s election this weekend will choose a president to lead it into its oil-producing future. But as the world learned in Kenya last year, when tribal and political institutions overlap, stability weakens and sometimes erupts into violence.

Burning the Midnight Oil, Unlimited (Nov/Dec 2008)
After dark in the boomingest boomtown of the 21st century—Fort McMurray, Alberta.

A Land Apart, The Walrus (September 2008)
Can Turkey fulfill its promise as a bridge between East and West when its own peoples stand divided?

From Russia with Love, Azure (Jul/Aug 2008)
The Russians have for decades fashioned functional objects from such cast-off items as forks, plastic bottles and onion bags. Collector Vladimir Arkhipov sheds light on the artful labour of his brothers and sisters in invention.

Where do you think you’re going?, Unlimited (May 2008)
I used to think tourists were different than travellers (sorta). Then I got mugged back to reality.

Guyana’s Modest Proposal, Globe and Mail (January 19, 2008)
A South American president surprised his people when he offered to let foreign conservationists manage rain forests in return for aid. A new way to reconcile development and the environment, or a new eco-colonialism?

It’s the Freedom B’y, Canadian Geographic (Jan/Feb 2008)
The raw, roadless beauty of Quebec’s Lower North Shore has drawn settlers for hundreds of years. But as residents abandon the coast in search of work,will the region find hope or hindrance in a highway linking it to the province?

Sign of the Black Cross, Canadian Geographic (Jan/Feb 2007)
From my trip to Russia in March 06, when I tried finding the wartime mass grave of my father’s father.

Burning Star: Chernobyl at 20, Outpost (Sept/Oct 2006) *link deleted
Visiting Chernobyl and its exclusion zone, site of the world’s worst technologic disaster, twenty years on.

Science & Environment

“Above all, do no harm”, Globe and Mail (March 3, 2007)
On the emerging movement to green health care (with some severed heads thrown in for good measure).

Culture

Copyfight, Maisonneuve (Spring 2007)
How documentary filmmakers are being stymied by the rising cost of copyright.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Art World, Maisonneuve (Spring 2007)
Controversy in Contemporary Canadian Art: A Retrospective.

The Talented Mr. Lipsett, Maisonneuve (Winter 2007)
An appreciation of the 60s experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, and the new documentary about his life.

Dead Reckoning: George Romero is Alive and Well and Living in Toronto, Globe and Mail (Oct. 31, 2006)
On set with the zombie auteur.

Rebel Anger, Globe and Mail (Oct. 13, 2006)
Very brief bit on cinematic pioneer & famous gossip Kenneth Anger.

Pierre the Who?, Globe and Mail (July 11, 2006)
Profile of Québec singer-songwriter Pierre Lapointe.

Travel

Rising Tide in St. John’s, Up! Magazine (May 2008)
Once shuttered and bypassed, Sin Jawns has plenty to sing about once more.

Where the Ghosts Are, Up! Magazine (October 2007)
As one of North America’s oldest cities, St. John’s is no stranger to the strange. A haunted walking tour provides plenty of goosebumps… and a cracked window into Newfoundland’s predilection for the paranormal.