Paul Webster
About Paul Webster
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.