I follow breaking news, politics and social movements in France. I also dabble in culture as it intersects with daily life, whether it be a profile of a street artist, or how climate change is threatening the country’s sense of itself as expressed through traditional cheese. I’m especially interested in France’s attempts to address its colonial history.
My Background
I have been a journalist for more than a quarter century. I joined The Times in 2017 as the Canada bureau chief, based in Toronto. For the previous 16 years, I worked at Canada’s largest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, as a columnist, feature writer, environment reporter and foreign correspondent, mostly in Haiti. I arrived in Port-au-Prince shortly after the 2010 earthquake and returned more than two dozen times to report. I consider the country my second home. In 2019, I published a book about my ties to Haiti called “A Girl Named Lovely.”
In 2022, I was part of a team that won the George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigation of the assassination of Haiti’s president.
I have a bachelor’s degree from McGill University in English literature and history, and a master’s degree from York University in English literature. Before moving to Paris in 2022, I also lived in Montreal and Vancouver, Canada; Ladakh, India; Dakar, Senegal; and Montpellier, France.
Journalistic Ethics
Above all, it is important to be fair, accurate and empathetic in my coverage. I want my stories to reflect the voices and perspectives of the people of France, and to reflect the diversity of the country. I’m proud to work for a company with a strong ethics policy and am committed to abide by The Times’s standards. That means I don’t publish anything unless I can prove it is true, and will make a third or fourth call to check the smallest detail in a story. I believe in holding power to account, but don’t publish without giving the subjects of my reporting a chance to respond first.
Organizers of the Games promise to slash greenhouse gas emissions by re-using historic buildings, adding bike lanes, even putting solar panels on the Seine. Will it work?