Enterprise News Features & Analysis

  • 'We have more in common with America than the rest of Canada'

    The threat to Canada's sovereignty from US President Donald Trump has dominated the 2025 election, but the country also faces a challenge from within. Some western Canadians, fed up with a decade of Liberal rule, are openly calling for separation.

  • 'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease

    Five hundred people in a small Canadian province were diagnosed with a mystery brain disease. What would it mean for the patients if the disease was never real?

  • What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps

    As cities across North America grapple with homelessness, one Canadian city has taken a different approach by regulating tent encampments instead of banning them, as it tries to tackle what one official calls the issue "of the decade".

  • A small Alberta city is home to the busiest drug consumption site in North America. We spent 12 hours inside

    Every day, hundreds of people in Lethbridge visit the supervised consumption site. Staff say they’re saving lives, but the site itself may not survive as politicians and some neighbours call on the province to cut its funding.

  • Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US

    Prime Minister Mark Carney's new approach to Canada's foreign policy can perhaps be distilled in one line: "We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be." His new deal with China is a sign that he is serious.

  • On patrol with Canadian forces securing the Arctic as global threats grow

    I joined Canada’s military on their longest Arctic sovereignty patrol yet, as they travelled a path through the country’s vast, frozen north that had not been attempted for 80 years. Their mission is made more relevant by the growing geopolitical scramble for the Arctic’s resources.

On Camera

  • Why has Meta banned news in Canada?

    Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has blocked news content on its platforms over a dispute with the Canadian government. I explain why in this video for the BBC.

  • Defiance or diplomacy - how Canadians want to deal with Trump

    As part of the BBC’s 2025 Canada election coverage, I asked everyday Canadians their thoughts on their country’s changing relationship with the US, and how they want their incoming prime minister to engage with Donald Trump.

  • How we reported in -30C temperatures in Canada's Arctic

    My colleague Eloise Alanna and I reflected on our trip to Canada’s Arctic in this video diary for the BBC.

Magazine Features

  • Flight 752: A family torn apart

    Abbas Saadat said goodbye to his family as they headed home to their lives in Edmonton. Don’t worry, they told each other. Life was good.

    A feature co-written with Maclean’s colleague Shannon Proudfoot and reported by me on how tragedy befell one Iranian-Canadian family in Edmonton when a passenger plane was shot down accidentally by the Iranian regime in Tehran.

  • For the Wet’suwet’en nation, formal land rights may be on the horizon

    Before Covid-19 hit, the biggest story in Canada was the defiance of the Wet’suwet’en nation against a planned gas pipeline that was to run through their community - inspiring protests across the country. I travelled to the First Nations community in British Columbia as they were on the cusp of a historic agreement with the Crown.

  • Coronavirus turns Easter, Passover and Ramadan into long-distance occasions

    Religious leaders are finding creative ways to perform services and comfort congregants. But without the human touch, holy days just aren’t the same.