Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What does a reality TV producer do? It can range anywhere from coming up with an idea to casting a concept to selling a show to developing a show to figuring out financing. It involves managing the creative and the business elements through production to seeing the show on the […]
Written for FLARE’s 9-5 series. … What does it mean to be a DJ? I’m the party captain. I have a crowd where some people are wasted, some people are sober, some people don’t want to be there but their friends dragged them out. It’s my job, within the first 10 minutes of my set, to […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … How has climate change affected the way you farm? Springs come in later and fall ends later, in general, but it’s kind of unpredictable. We’re seeing more and more where it won’t rain for two weeks and then it’ll be a downpour of like 30mm of rain in eight minutes—more […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5. When you started studying computer science at Dal, how many women were in your classes? Very few, sadly. It started out at around 17 percent but it dwindled over the years. That’s the unfortunate reality about being a woman in tech: it’s always a higher percentage when you start and then people […]
Op-ed written for FLARE. Sure, actress Amber Heard is a total babe, but now, apparently, science has “proven” that she has the most beautiful face in the world. British cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva used the Golden Ratio of 1.618—an ancient Greek measure of physical perfection—to map out the ideal placement and proportion of facial features, […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … How did you get into documentary filmmaking? One of my professors at UBC, John Zaritsky, had won an Oscar for one of his documentaries, Just Another Missing Kid. I had always loved documentaries, but he was the one who really encouraged me to pursue it. He alerted me to the […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. Also live Snapchatted from the set of the photoshoot. … What drew you into the world of competitive mountain biking? I have two older brothers who took an interest in it when they were teenagers and my parents were super on board. They bought a motorhome and we would drive across […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What’s your favourite destination? Vancouver, because flying over Canada lets you see how beautiful this country is. The view from the cockpit is breathtaking and words can’t describe some of the things you see, especially when the sun is coming up or you see weather at a distance. Having a […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What is the Tseshaht community like? We have over 1,100 members, however not all of them live in Port Alberni, B.C. on the Tseshaht reserve. A lot of them are off-reserve members. The Tseshaht community is really hard to explain if you’re not a part of it. The community is […]
Ishani Nath 