Posts in category Spring 2000

The offices at Shift Media are rarely silent. Phones ring constantly and lively conversations buzz along, meshing with hypnotic bass-heavy electronic music pouring out of …

Rebecca Eckler sits on cold, grungy steps outside the Chicago Main Greyhound Bus Station between two scruffy-looking men. It’s 12:45 a.m. and I’m just arriving, …

In a small village in southern China, in the province of Fujian, a fruit seller is unable to face another winter without enough produce to …

Everybody is thinking about money. Those of us building our financial futures want and need to know more about the little money we have. Those …

Scowling portraits of premiers past glower at the members of the Queen’s Park press corps as they saunter down from their comfortable offices to the …

It’s the end of a long week in October for Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan. This was supposed to be her last day in the …

Fil Fraser, armed with his remote control, is hoping to show me how times have changed for black journalists in Canada. He aims the remote …

“Has this been lawyered?” How often in newspaper, radio and TV newsrooms, in magazine offices, does this clarion call go out on any given day? …

To say that Ben Rayner and Joshua Ostroff are exhausted would be an understatement. The pair has endured three days of burning sunshine, fast food …

Patricia just turned 55, but with her youthful skin and blond-highlighted hair, she could easily pass for 45. She has three kids, a full-time career, …