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.
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.
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.
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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.
As part of their annual Precedent Setter awards series, I profiled lawyer Brendan Van Niejenhuis for Precedent magazine.
In Maclean’s, on the proposed ‘Italy-cization’ of the Cabot Trail’s namesake, and the subsequent cross-provincial spat.
In Canadian Business, I learn that warnings about the impact of elections on economic growth are misplaced.
For EyeWeekly.com (may it R.I.P.), I check in on the rebirth of Dovercourt’s legendary den of decadence.