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I am an Emmy-winning freelance journalist currently working out of the Greater Toronto Area. As a staff writer, I have operated news bureaus in Halifax, Nova Scotia (where I worked as the Atlantic Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail until 2019), post-quake Haiti and Afghanistan. I have previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, the Toronto Star, and the Edmonton Journal. My byline has appeared in the magazines Today’s Parent, Chatelaine, Report on Business Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Professionally Speaking and elsewhere.

I’m also a Mom, which most days feels tougher (and often far more gross) than any of those other jobs I just bragged about doing.

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