Category: People
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New Guardian byline: ‘His spirit is still among us’
Justin Trudeau may have shocked the world this week when he linked “agents of India” to the murder of a Canadian citizen in British Columbia, but colleagues who worked alongside Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar before he was shot dead this summer said the link was already clear.
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‘Pressure Cooker’ featured on Apple’s list of top new podcasts in 2022
One of the first criminal trials I ever attended as a freelancer for VICE Canada is now the focus of a CBC podcast written and produced by me, filmmaker Dan Pierce and CBC reporter Rafferty Baker.
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Two award noms for ‘Don’t Call It a Cult’
DCIAC has been shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. It’s also a finalist for a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.
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Listen to ‘A Little Bit Culty’ panel at SXSW 2022
In March 2022 I got to sit down for a live podcast taping with two central subjects of Don’t Call It a Cult and fellow author Amanda Montell.
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How an accidental phone answer exposed Rogers Communications ‘coup plan’
In mid September, Rogers Communications Inc CEO Joe Natale called his then finance chief Tony Staffieri, who was discussing a secret plan to shake up Canada’s biggest telecom company’s board and senior management, including Natale. Staffieri accidentally answered Natale’s call. (Story on Reuters.com)
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‘Don’t Call It a Cult’ is featured in the New Yorker
In the July 12 issue of the New Yorker, Zoë Heller breaks down “What Makes a Cult a Cult?”
Sarah Berman, journalist 