I think if I could start again I’d make a list of everyone I’ve interviewed and call it people who told me who they were.
I could also call it people who know more about the world than I do. Early on, someone said to me: a good journalist always knows the answers to the questions they're asking. After a decade and a half of asking questions, every answer tells me I know nothing about anything. I think that’s what I like the most about talking to people.
You can see an infrequently updated portfolio here but below is a small selection of stories I enjoyed telling:
Smell doesn’t work like memory. It’s not always specific; sometimes it’s just an idea, something nameless we carry with us that brings us back to where and when we first experienced it. For Melissa Condotta, founder of plant-based apothecary Sunday’s Company, recreating that feeling is a strange alchemy.
Sunday’s Company and the Strange Alchemy of Scent, Wander the Resort
Some would say I’m a momma's boy but I’m proud to be the way I am because growing up with sisters, you get in a lot of fights, you get hand-me-down chick clothes. I’ve no knuckles left and I broke my nose 12 times...
Mike Wekerle, the Wolf of Bay Street Yahoo! Canada Finance
In Shuvinai Ashoona's work, it's eggs and alligators, baleen and bones that become anchors, giving some strange familiarity in the beautifully surreal worlds the contemporary artist creates. Even in large format pieces where Ashoona's coloured pencil seems to dance off the page, you're never lost for long, her lexicon bringing you back to whatever the story is she's trying to tell.
The beautifully surreal worlds of Shuvinai Ashoona, RBC Wealth Management x Masterpiece London Art Fair
If we can eliminate the feeling that we aren't enough or we aren't qualified enough to do something, then all of a sudden we're going to have more and more women who are applying to things that they're more than qualified for.
How Make Lemonade Became One of the De Facto HQs for Toronto Female Founders, Startup HERE
Marlin Martin doesn’t care much for technology. The 34-year-old Mennonite farmer doesn’t own a smartphone or have internet access, although he uses electricity on his farm outside Dundalk, Ont.; he uses a horse and buggy, and he raises his cattle hormone – and antibiotic-free – on the grasses of Marita Fields. However, he’s decided that a partnership with an e-commerce startup is the best way to get his products to market.