For Slate‘s DoubleX website, a look at the recent suggestion that women boxers wear skirts when fighting in the ring.
Boom Boom Pow
Posted in Media, Society, Sports
Leave a comment
Mr. America
When Canada’s biggest businesses need access in Washington, they call Paul Frazer. A profile for This magazine.
Posted in Politics, Public Policy
Leave a comment
What’s happening at 1011 Lansdowne?
For OpenFile Toronto, a look at planned renovations to one of the city’s most notorious addresses — 1011 Lansdowne Ave.
Posted in Business, Public Policy
Leave a comment
Nice shot, Comrade
For Maclean’s, a piece about Canadian developers who are involved in building two high-end golf resorts in Cuba. Not surprisingly, an issue about much more than simply playing a round of golf.
Posted in Business, Travel
Leave a comment
Going Deeper Underground
In the fall issue of Corporate Knights, I look into human rights abuses against indigenous peoples in Guatemala by Canadian mining companies. The Education Issue of the magazine looks at how human rights training at business and law schools might change the tide in how we deal with corporate abuse abroad.
Posted in Business, Politics, Public Policy
Leave a comment
The Wizard of Odd
For a few months throughout 2010 and 2011, I was able to follow around eccentric and bon vivant Bill Jamieson. My profile of him ran in the Globe and Mail after his shocking death in July 2011.
My scan of the piece is hard to read (though visually appealing), so I’ve pasted the article below, as well.
—
Bill Jamieson was a treasure-hunting rareity
The apartment is a cabinet of curiosity. The entrance is ringed with warrior shields from New Guinea. The back room holds an electric chair. The kitchen, a replica machine gun. Downstairs, the walls are covered with framed butterflies.
The owner of this one-bedroom, three-storey, 6,000 sq. ft. loft also has a fondness for shrunken heads – he owns almost a dozen. During an evening tour of the space last winter, he grabs one from a case with his bare hands, placing it under the nose of a nearby young woman.
“Do you smell that? That’s sage!” he says.
Posted in Arts & Literature, Society
Leave a comment
Precedent Setter
As part of their annual Precedent Setter awards series, I profiled lawyer Brendan Van Niejenhuis for Precedent magazine.
Posted in Public Policy
Leave a comment