selected features and essays

• “The Case of the Least Touristy Gulf Island, Texada.” The Tyee. November 11, 2024.

• “How to De-junk the Coast. A Tyee photo essay.” The Tyee. September 19, 2024.

• “The Case of the Ghostly Trestle.” The Tyee. December 15, 2023.

• “‘We Didn’t Treat it as a Park. That Was Our Home.’” The Tyee. June 28, 2023. (Nominated for a Digital Publishing Award.)

• “In Powell River, the Case of the ‘White Tower.” The Tyee. May 16, 2023.

• “Whales Are Back in BC. But Fishing Gear Is Killing Them.” The Tyee. March 30, 2022

• “Into the Deep.” The Tyee. December 27, 2021. (Nominated for a Digital Publishing Award.)

• “What If Riding the Bus Was Free?” The Tyee. November 29, 2021.

• “On Lasqueti Island, a Wild and Woolly Issue Has Divided Residents.” The Tyee. September 23, 2021.

• “My Garden Flourishes ‘Because Someone Has Saved the Seed.’” The Tyee. July 5, 2021.

• “This Spring, My Garden Will Bloom Again.” The Tyee. March 16, 2021.

• “Thicker than Water.” Chatelaine. January 2021. 72–73.

• “On Nursing My Baby While Nonbinary.” Chatelaine. October 6, 2020. (Excerpted from “Milk and Time,” Like a Boy but Not a Boy.)

• “What it’s like to nurse when you’re non-binary.” Xtra. September 25, 2020. (Excerpted from “Milk and Generativeness,” Like a Boy but Not a Boy.)

• “On Being Bipolar.” The Walrus. September 24, 2020. (Excerpted from Like a Boy but Not a Boy.)

• “Smoke Signals.” This magazine. July/August 2019.

• “The In-Between Space.” Hazlitt. September 18, 2018.

• “Like a boy but not a boy: one experience of non-binary pregnancy.” Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories. Caitlin Press. Fall 2018.

• “The Precariat’s Parental Leave.” Briarpatch. November/December 2017.

• “Shake, Rattle, Roll: The part cyclists will play in disaster relief after the Really Big One hits the Pacific Northwest.” Maisonneuve. 64 (2017): 36-43. (Written with the generous support of an Access Copyright Foundation Marian Hebb Research Grant.)

• “Who Gets to Be an Atheist?” (co-written with Kim Fu). Hazlitt. September 26, 2016.

• “Chain Reaction: What does it take to puncture cycling’s insular bro culture?” Maisonneuve. 60 (2016): 16-19.

• “Beyond Mom and Pop.” (co-written with Kim Fu) Hazlitt. September 11, 2015.

• “Boom: What happens when you take on the gas industry—and your neighbours—in a small British Columbia town.” The Walrus. 12.2 (2015): 42-51. (Written with the generous support of an Access Copyright Foundation research grant.)

• “Water Upon the Earth.” Maisonneuve. 54 (2014): 31-41. (Winner of a National Magazine Award.)

• “Putting Eternal Salvation in the Hands of 19-Year-Old Missionaries.” (co-written with Kim Fu) The Atlantic. August 20, 2014.

• “No Choice: Inside Canada’s New Prolife Movement.” (co-written with Kim Fu) Maisonneuve. 48 (2013): 20-27.

• “Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto’s 2010 G20 debacle.” Maisonneuve. 46 (2012): 34-43. (Nominated for a National Magazine Award.)

• “In the House of the Lord.” Maisonneuve. 42 (2011): 34-43.

selected short features, q&as and columns

• “Shear Genius: Turning Waste Wool into Clean Fertilizer.” The Tyee. June 11, 2024.

• “Can Whales and Warships Coexist in the Salish Sea?” The Tyee. March 5, 2024.

• “The More I Scrub, the Better I Feel.” The Tyee. February 9, 2024.

• “Naomi Klein: ‘A Grift Only Works If You’ve Got Customers.’” The Tyee. October 16, 2023.

• “What’s Behind the ‘Housing Crisis’ in Canada? A Q&A with Ricardo Tranjan.” The Tyee. May 3, 2023.

• “How Myles Gray’s Family Will Remember Him.” (cowritten with Jen St. Denis) The Tyee. April 17, 2023.

• “An Ice Cream Made from Trees?!” (co-written with Chris Cheung) The Tyee. June 9, 2022.

• “A Week in the Life: An OB/GYN Who Provides Abortions.” The Tyee. June 1, 2022.

• “Want to See a Big Tree Up Close and Alive (Instead of on a Truck Bed)?” The Tyee. May 28, 2021.

• “Writers Are Broke. Is This Government Policy to Blame?” The Tyee. April 19, 2021.

• “When COVID News Was Scarce, He Stepped Up as His City’s Crisis Communicator.” The Tyee. April 16, 2021.

• “How rescue dogs embody the transformative power of unconditional love.” Xtra. March 3, 2021.

• “Buckle up: Overalls are the non-binary uniform.” Xtra. November 13, 2020.

• “Two Girls: An extremely online Canadian art mystery.” (co-written with Paige Sabourin) Maisonneuve. January 30, 2020.

• “They.” Vogue Italia. September 2019: 152.

• “I’m a non-binary parent. There still isn’t space for me.” Xtra. May 10, 2019.

• “The Rides of March.” Maisonneuve. 71 (2019): 64.

• “Food and Friendship: For Montreal’s Sister Sabria, caring for one’s neighbours means moving beyond the boundaries of religion and culture.” Reader’s Digest. November 2017. 14-16.

• “How Montreal’s Librairie Drawn & Quarterly earned its reputation as a beloved institution.” Quill & Quire. September 2017.

• “Shared Vision: Optician Philippe Rochette believes everyone has a
  right to see clearly, no matter their means.” Reader’s Digest. September 2017. 14-16.

• “The Art of Being a Good Person.” Reader’s Digest. July/August 2017. 92-95.

• “12 Extraordinary Real Life Stories About the Kindness of Strangers.” (Also featuring stories by Melissa Martin and Katie Underwood.) Reader’s Digest. June 2017. 39-47.

• “Whose story is it anyway? Where CBC's Story of Us went wrong.” This magazine. July/August 2017: 43.

• “The challenge of vacationing as a freelancer.” The Globe & Mail. January 12, 2017.

• “Lost in translation: Exploring bilingualism through Quebecois film.” This magazine. January/February 2017: 42.

• “Money story: Documentary explores the oppressive realities of capitalism.” This magazine. November/December 2016: 42.

• “Rated R: How TV violence draws—and repels—women.” This magazine. March/April 2016: 43.

• “Montreal’s Hôtel-de-Ville Residence celebrates eclecticism.” The Globe & Mail. January 21, 2016.

• “The Year in Work.” Hazlitt. December 9, 2015.

• “Man Shows: What Macho Reality TV Reveals About Modern Gender Roles.” This magazine. November/December 2015: 42.

• “Community groups search for space as real estate market squeezes them out.” The Globe & Mail. October 30, 2015.

• “Green Peace River: Liz Biggar divided her oil-and-gas town. Now she’s running for election.” The Walrus. September 24, 2015.

• “A Day in the Life of a Booming Gas Town in the Canadian Northwest.” Motherboard. September 2, 2015.

• “It’s a bro world.” This magazine. July/August 2015: 42.

• “Saying no to the dress.” This magazine. January 2015: 12.

• “Why can’t we be friends?” This magazine. March/April 2014: 12-13.

• “ViralVita: Content Aggregation Goes ‘Pro-life.’” Maisonneuve. April 24, 2014.

• “Hockeyville.” Descant. 163 (2013): 129-131.

• “The Om Factor.” This magazine. September/October 2013: 10-11.

• “BC Pro-Choice Activist ‘Vindicated’ in Court Ruling.” (co-written with Kim Fu) The Tyee. August 31, 2013.

• “Getting on the bus with pro-lifers.” Vancouver Observer. May 10. 2013.

• “Chris Kyle: The painful home truth of America’s military psyche.” Adbusters. March 11, 2013.

• “Fit to print.” This magazine. January/February 2013: 12.

• “How to Lobby your MP.” This magazine. January/February 2013: 31.

• “Canada is No Safe Harbour for Reproductive Rights.” (co-written with Kim Fu) Ms. magazine blog. December 4, 2012.

• “Power and Vulnerability: Coronary Episode, Corollary Enlistment.” Adbusters. 104 (2012).

• “Disaster Advertising.” Adbusters. 103 (2012).

• “St. Francis of Fukushima.” Adbusters. 102 (2012).

• “Tsering Kyi.” Adbusters. 102 (2012).

• “Things to Write on a Mother’s Day Card.” Maisonneuve. May 7, 2010.

• “Afghanada on Remembrance Day.” thecannon.ca. November 18, 2007.