Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Pitched and reported this original story. Published online and in print in the Globe and Mail, May 10, 2012 The crowd cheered as the lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies called 11-year-old Harrison Lee to the stage in Whistler, B.C., last summer. The pint-sized seventh-grader stood centre stage, hair slicked to the side and hands clasped […]
Appeared online and in print for the Ryersonian, Feb. 15, 2012 Matt Buie’s hometown is so small that it has no official name. Instead, he tells people that he’s from Duntroon, Ont., which is the closest officially recognized address – a hamlet consisting of fewer than 200 residents, a single intersection and an “extremely white” community. […]
Appeared online for The GridTO, Jan. 31, 2012 Edward Keenan’s Nov. 10, 2011 cover story for The Grid posed the question of whether downtown condo complex CityPlace would become Toronto’s next ghetto, noting its high concentration of short-term residents and disengaged foreign ownership and the lack of nearby amenities and large, family-friendly units. In the […]
Appeared on J-Source.ca, Dec. 6, 2011 CBC benched Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi edition in October, but vehement support from the Punjabi community have put the broadcast back in the game. Beginning Dec. 10, Hockey Night in Canada will be broadcast in Punjabi on digital cable and online every Saturday for the remainder of the […]
After discovering this scoop, I broke this story on J-Source and then sold an edited copy of it to The Province. It then went national on the Postmedia wire. Appeared online at J-Source.ca, Oct. 19, 2011 Don Cherry may be dominating hockey headlines but Indo-Canadians are more concerned about the recent cancellation of Hockey Night in Canada’s […]
Ishani Nath 