Travel – Hiking the Saskatchewan Badlands

First Nations

Losing tax exemption tough sell

Part 13 in an 18-part series by the Nanaimo Daily News on a treaty proposal with the Snuneymuxw First Nation focused on band members’ fears of losing a federal tax exemption.

Feature writing

Steeped in tradition

If you think $135 a pound is a lot to pay for rare Panamanian coffee, consider the price-tag on a 30-year-old 400-gram cake of pu-erh Chinese tea at the Best Tea House in Richmond: $1,500.

Court

Duplicity nets fraudster seven years

A 63-year-old woman who preyed on vulnerable seniors gets lengthy jail term and verbal excoriation from judge.

Web/print publishing

Town Hall Online

When the Richmond News was trying to draw readers’ attention to the paper’s web site, I came up with this idea to use the print medium to promote the online medium. The online version included video clips and a reader feedback, with the feedback received online running in a subsequent print edition. I laid the page out, as well.

Layout

Digital killed the video store

Studying the rhetorical devices and wordplay of Alexander Pope comes in handy when coming up with snappy, catchy headlines, like this one, which is a play on the 1979 pop song, “Video killed the radio star.”

Business

Expanding at the speed of light

Richmond firm makes the components for a new particle accelerator that will produce radioactive isotopes for nuclear medicine and which can be used by scientists in their search for  “dark” matter.

Sports

Dutch dominate 5000M speed skating

Sven Kramer mines gold for Holland in 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Richmond.