A career in print journalism led to a posting as Washington bureau chief for The Montreal Star (now defunct.)
In 1980, I co-authored a best-selling non-fiction book, The Canadian Caper, about the rescue of six American diplomatic hostages in Iran by the staff of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor.
I learned television news as a reporter with Global TV in Toronto. Here are some early clips, and some later ones.
In 1985, I became a correspondent with CBC's The National, with Peter Mansbridge.
In 1989, I was appointed as the CBC's chief European TV correspondent based in London. There, I covered important stories such as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the 1990s, I worked as a special overseas correspondent for Global National News. I reported from four different continents, and filed stories for Global (and for the CBC) from Bosnia, Colombia, Rwanda, Haiti, Iraq, Cuba and elsewhere.
As a freelancer, I filed reports for CBC Radio on a variety of stories, ranging from sweatshops in Haiti, to the ongoing troubles of one-legged marathon man Steven Fonyo.
In 2003, I was appointed Canwest Visiting Professor of Broadcast Journalism at the University of British Columbia. I worked as a journalism instructor until 2005.
I'm an active freelance writer, published in Reader's Digest, Vancouver magazine, B.C. Business, as well as online publications including The Tyee and J-Source.
Recent articles of note include an exhaustive look at the life and death of Vancouver's Bev Giesbrecht as a hostage of the Taliban, the failures of the native compensation program in Canada, and a business feature on the jade-mining industry in British Columbia.
