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Paul Webster is an award-winning freelance writer and documentary film director based in Toronto. He has reported from more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Eurasia, and currently teaches Canada's only course in freelance science, medicine and public health writing at the University of Toronto.

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What's making the rich richer?

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is a Canadian business rock star who ⁠— with his owlish eyeglasses and golfer’s caps ⁠— resembles a Starbucks-mooching slacker.
Coronavirus in Canada
Analysis | May 22nd 2020
Baffin Correction Centre, Iqualit, Nunavut

British Columbia is saving lives by giving drugs to opioid-addicted prisoners

British Columbia's newly ramped-up program, known as Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST), provides access to two synthetic opioid substitution drugs known as Suboxone and methadone.
News | June 23rd 2017

Fighting scourges of polio and terrorism of Boko Haram

Just as authorities began to think Nigeria was polio-free, new cases emerged. Boko Haram terrorism has disrupted progress in one of the few countries where polio is not eradicated.
News | May 9th 2017
Daniel Turp, Pierre-Karl Péladeau, Canada, Saudi Arabia

Ottawa faces new legal challenge of arms exports to Saudi Arabia

Lawyer Daniel Turp is appealing a Federal Court ruling against judicial review of the Canadian government’s exports of heavily-armed vehicles to Saudi Arabia.
News, Politics | February 8th 2017
Stephane Dion, Global Affairs Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister, Climate change, Syria

EXCLUSIVE: Dion not properly briefed on human rights before Saudi arms deal

According to documents obtained by National Observer, Stéphane Dion was not properly briefed on human rights abuse in Saudi Arabia before he approved a $15-billion weaponized vehicle export deal.
News, Politics | January 31st 2017

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