Selected Reporting and Essays
The Great French Fry Mystery
For Toronto Life magazine, I investigated a curious occurrence: when bags of A&W French fries kept appearing, day after day, in the middle of the night on my neighbour’s porch—and stumbled into all the makings of an international scam.
Big Lonely Doug
For The Walrus magazine, I wrote about the second largest Douglas-fir in Canada—a nearly 25-storey tree—that was saved by a logger.
The Search for the ‘Authentic’ in Travel is a Search Without End
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote an essay about the flawed search for the “authentic” in travel.
Lost in the Valley of Death
For Outside magazine, I investigated the mysterious disappearance of Justin Alexander Shetler, an American traveller who vanished in the Parvati Valley, India.
Outside
How I Learned to Love Bonsai
For The Walrus magazine, I profiled a bonsai YouTube star and wrote about my attempts to learn the ancient art.
Love Letters from the Battlefield
For The Walrus magazine, I wrote about uncovering the hundreds of love letters my grandparents sent back and forth to each other during the four years of World War 2.