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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.