I field produced and wrote two half-hour segments of the History Television reality series The Journey Home. In the first, Marty's Search, I accompanied Edmonton man Marty Chan to mainland China, in search of the grave of his grandmother, a victim of the Cultural Revolution. He'd never met her. I secretly filmed the China portion of his odyssey.
The second, Ky's Secret, was a story of a Vietnamese boat person who returned to Vietnam in search of two children she'd abandoned when she fled the war in the 1970s.
While living in Hong Kong, I filmed, wrote and co-produced a 22-minute documentary called The Holy Man and Mother Ganga, about a man with a dream to clean up the heavily-polluted Ganges River. This was broadcast on CBC's Man Alive. I also produced a full-length documentary on the aftermath of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, called Rwanda: Out of the Darkness, that was aired on The Passionate Eye, and CBC's The National.
I also worked as a videographer and story producer on a segment of the vastly successful American reality series, Trauma; Life in the ER. The segment was taped in the emergency ward of a major metropolitan hospital in Florida, and featured dramatic real-life stories of the wounded, the sick and the dying.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING/PRODUCING
In 1989, I was appointed as the CBC's chief European TV correspondent based in London. There, I covered important stories such as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the 1990s, I worked as a special overseas correspondent for Global National News. I reported from four different continents, and filed stories for Global (and for the CBC) from Bosnia, Colombia, Rwanda, Haiti, Iraq, Cuba and elsewhere.
As a freelancer, I filed reports for CBC Radio on a variety of stories, including sweatshops in Haiti. I also filmed the bizarre wedding of one-legged marathon man Steven Fonyo.
In 2003, I was appointed Canwest Visiting Professor of Broadcast Journalism at the University of British Columbia. I worked as a journalism instructor until 2005.
I'm an active freelance writer, published in Reader's Digest, Vancouver magazine, B.C. Business, as well as online publications including The Tyee and J-Source.
Recent articles of note include an exhaustive look at the life and death of Vancouver's Bev Giesbrecht as a hostage of the Taliban, the failures of the native compensation program in Canada, and a business feature on the jade-mining industry in British Columbia.
