Globe and Mail reporter in Toronto after stints in Quebec City, Ottawa and Montreal. ha@globeandmail.com. DM me for Signal.
Feb 16 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Our investigation into a huge healthcare issue: private agency nursing. We focus on Canadian Health Labs, an agency with a major share of contracts in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, despite charging X2 the rates of other companies theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The huge costs of agency nursing has already been the subject of other media reports but we've been able to get a unique, closer look at how this one agency operates, by scrutinizing hundreds of pages of contracts and invoices
Dec 15, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Wow. I've just discovered that my sister and I appeared in a photo in the Toronto Star 45 years ago, as refugees from Vietnam. I didn't even know of the photo's existence and didn't remember that there had been a stopover in GTA. torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ent…
Wherever you are now, Doug Griffin, tip of the hat for recording an extraordinary moment in my childhood.
Nov 9, 2018 • 50 tweets • 13 min read
For this year's Remembrance Day, which marks 100 years since the end of the First World War, I have written a story following the paths of a handful of Canadians during that conflict.
Allow me to share some of the things I've learned.
Among the first to volunteer was a lawyer, Alistair Fraser, who enlisted the day after the declaration of war, and his sister, Pearl Fraser. Their late father was Duncan Cameron Fraser, a Lt-Gov of Nova Scotia and confidant of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.