Thanks to @cbcradiocanada for inviting me to be a guest on last Sunday’s episode of Cross-Country Checkup (which aired November 30, 2025). Show host Ian Hanomansing was away, so I spoke with Rebecca Sandbergen. Listen to Cross-Country Checkup’s transit episode. I’m the first interview at the 2:25 mark. The episode focused on a recent original investigative CBC report. They […]
Were you at the Raptors’ victory parade in June 2019? I was. That morning, I traveled downtown by TTC with my children and my parents. We decided not to go to Nathan Phillips Square at the end of the route, figuring the crowds would be largest there (and we were correct). Instead, we found a […]
Ten years ago, I stopped believing I would finish writing a novel. And I have never been so wrong. Editor’s note about “Don’t Stop Believing”: I originally published this essay on Medium. But their analytics are getting increasingly weird, so I’m giving it a permanent home here. * * * It was raining that night. […]
I originally wrote this post on Medium in 2015. I remember being excited that some ‘important’ Twitter accounts engaged with it. I’ve left the references to the manuscript that would eventually become Chaos Calling as-is. Once upon a time, I wrote a post assessing the pros and cons of the Wattpad platform for aspiring writers on my […]