I’m extremely pleased with this week’s cover story in The Grid on 10 young Toronto scientists. Thanks to The Grid for having the guts to run with a slightly offbeat pitch.
Tag Archives: Portfolio
A few opinions
From my new, semi-regular column for the Globe and Mail online:
Wedding and Baby Showers Are Hideous Relics: Don’t Throw Them
On Rehtaeh Parsons, and why the term “rape culture” isn’t the best tool for stopping rape
Buying Your First Home
In the Grid, an exhaustive and (I hope) helpful guide for first-time home buyers.
Toronto’s multicultural theatre is not having A Moment
In the Grid, some thoughts on the latest batch of over here/over there plays, which are funny, thought-provoking and packing the theatres (including Pomme is French for Apple, pictured at right and starting a run at the Young Centre tonight, February 28).
Make Mine a Lowball
There’s lots of condos, and way less buyers. In the Grid, a roundup of units that might just go for a lowball (you know, an offer under the asking price).
More Ashbury coverage
Scandal!
Thanks to the Ottawa Citizen for a pretty interesting last-minute assignment: the disciplinary hearing for two Ottawa teachers from a fancy private school accused of covering up a case of sexual assault among their students.
Career Change: Nicole Barry and Teresa Chang
For Canadian Business’ Everyday Hero column, two former accountants on starting their dream businesses:
Nicole Barry is a Winnipeg woman who started a craft brewery
and Teresa Change is a Torontonian who opened a shop selling the fermented dairy product kefir.
Kids + gender
In the Globe, on parenting, gender and kids before puberty. I interviewed a lovely Hamilton family with a darling MTF girl named Rose.
Latest Grid stuff
I don’t post every real estate roundup I do for the Grid, but they’re still happening. Some recent On the Market columns:
Homes off the St. Clair streetcar line
and interviews with First Time Buyers at Dufferin and Dupont, and in East York.
I also did a charticle that seemed to amuse people: how to tell if you’re a concerned citizen or just a grouchy NIMBY.