STORIES
Selected clippings from print, radio and online publications:
This Magazine
Scott Gilmore on Peace Dividend Trust’s work in post-quake Haiti — Jan. 25, 2010
Listen to This #003: Scott Gilmore of Peace Dividend Trust — Jan. 11, 2010 (podcast)
For artists embedded in Afghanistan, propaganda concerns linger — January/February 2010
Road scholarship: the slippery facts about road salt — January/February 2010
NDP considering name change: the ‘Democratic Party’ — June 29, 2009
Death by a thousand cuts — July/August 2009 (unavailable online)
University Affairs
Ignatieff’s campus tour — Feb. 8, 2010
Reporter’s notebook: university naming policies — Jan. 25, 2010 (podcast)
Universities need naming policies — Jan. 25, 2010
Keshen on service learning — Sept. 18, 2009 (podcast)
Ottawa enhances student aid — Sept. 18, 2009
Canadian varsity teams barred from joining US league — Aug. 4, 2009
Goodyear says two-thirds Knowledge Infrastructure funds distributed — June 15, 2009
What does it take to win a Vanier? — June 8, 2009
First Vanier scholars hail mostly from home — May 11, 2009
Universities pick their priorities for infrastructure renewal — April 6, 2009
Government MPs form caucus on higher ed — March 9, 2009
Major changes proposed for research involving humans — Jan. 26, 2009
Canadian research misconduct to be studied by Health Canada-led committee — Dec. 15, 2008
Some graduates question thesis publication requirement — Oct. 24, 2008
New copyright bill affects universities and students — Aug. 5, 2008
Xtra.ca
Queer support of NDP dropped between 2006 and 2008 elections: study — Jan. 22, 2010
How the Second World War changed gay life — Jan. 21, 2010
Ontario won’t see hooker eviction bill before 2011 election — Dec. 15, 2009
Is the make-up of Canada’s next government in the hands of suburban voters? — Oct. 27, 2009
What Montreal’s Village can teach us about our own — July 29, 2009
Tories inch up amongst queer voters— July 29, 2009
Does Ottawa suffer from gay brain drain? — May 27, 2009
Can we talk? Notes from Canada’s free speech front line — March 4, 2009
Straight allies in support of gay marriage — Dec. 16, 2008
Guelph adds fuel to free speech fire — Dec. 5, 2008
Federal election results mixed for Ontario gays — Oct. 15, 2008
Court challenges back on agenda? — Oct. 13, 2008
The other freedom of expression battle — Oct. 10, 2008
Gays throw in their lot with artists, greens to stop Harper — Oct. 8, 2008
Clement tries to hang on to battleground seat — Sept. 18, 2008
POWER to Feds: hooking laws don’t work — Sept. 17, 2008
Kingston army base rejects Capital Xtra distributor — July 16, 2008
Only severe gaybashings reported to police — June 13, 2008
Student lobby vows to support censors — June 1, 2008
Around the Block on CHUO 89.1 FM
Please excuse the backlog of unavailable shows. It ought to be fixed.
A Sandy Hill Affair — Oct. 23, 2009
The one about Terry Gomes — Oct. 23, 2009
What (more) is in a name? — Oct. 16, 2009
How to name a building — Oct. 9, 2009
The little theatre that does — Sept. 25, 2009
Sandy Hill’s new spot of green — Sept. 18, 2009
An age cap reversed — Sept. 11, 2009
Walkin’ round the neighbourhood — Sept. 4, 2009
Another diplomat, this one Russian — Aug. 28, 2009
First a diplomat, second a fountain — Aug. 21, 2009
Ghost stories — Aug. 14, 2009
The clip show — Aug. 7, 2009
Slam poetry and local history — July 31, 2009
An historic building and another look at cycling — July 24, 2009
Navigating Ottawa’s advisory committees — July 17, 2009
How to make a difference at City Hall — July 10, 2009
Opinion leaders have their say — July 3, 2009
Ayoub’s and Fringe — June 26, 2009
A momentous occasion — June 19, 2009
Community Service Learning — June 12, 2009
A cycling summit and a talk about crime prevention — June 5, 2009
The story of the Lennikovs — May 29, 2009
Making King Edward a safer and more livable street — May 22, 2009
Creating a more walkable Ottawa — May 15, 2009
Research, citizenship, and the community — May 8, 2009
Sustainable transit and the University of Ottawa — May 1, 2009
Maisonneuve
Why Afghanistan is Canada’s next Korea — October 16, 2009
MediaScout
Big Band-Aid for Beleaguered Big Three? — Dec. 11, 2008
Back From the Brink, For Now — Dec. 5, 2008
For the rest of my writing at MediaScout, please visit here.
Post-secondary research spending stalls: Statcan — Aug. 15, 2008
“C” students not wanted — July 28, 2008
Colleges presidents salaries up, too — July 21, 2008
Educated immigrants less likely to find work: Statcan — July 18, 2008
Zigzagging to a degree — July 15, 2008
Presidents’ salaries up nearly 100% since 1997 — July 8, 2008
“Gappers” more employable, less wealthy: study — July 3, 2008
Mount Royal wants to be a university — June 17, 2008
PSE research needs new home in post-CMSF era — June 3, 2008
For the rest of my writing at Maclean’s OnCampus, please visit here.
Ottawa Citizen
New codes of conduct stifle speech, students say — May 27, 2008
Hill Times
Tories active in Markham, hope to wrest Chinese vote from Liberals — Aug. 13, 2007
Grit, Bloc MPs who resigned their seats ‘breaking their word’: Poilievre — July 30, 2007
18 months in government — July 23, 2007
Harper marks 18 months in office, recent poll should breed more humility, expert says — July 23, 2007
Liberals try to fix fundraising with move to Tory-model national member registry — July 16, 2007
Conservatives may find Quebec fundraising success in ‘old bleu’ support, say political experts — July 9, 2007
Prime Minister Harper targets ethnic media and ethnic voters in vote-rich Ontario — July 2, 2007
Other writing
Thirty Days Across America — October and November 2008
Gulf Coast Politics — April 2008