Just to say Lord Thomson of Fleet and I both had our start in my hometown of Timmins, a lovely mining town in northern Ontario. I worked at the Timmins Daily Press and he bought it.
He went on to be a media mogul and i got to witness history and meet so many truly extraordinary people. Yaay me
policymagazine.ca
On Being Canadian: From Timmins to Afghanistan, More than Not Being American - Policy Magazine
On the frontlines of conflict, where I have spent much of my career, regardless of the war I was covering or with which side I was speaking, being Canadian