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Features

Tales from the Crypt: Phil Zimmerman and the fight to keep your secrets secret

I was happy with the way this story came out, because it's a complex subject that I didn’t know anything about before the assignment, yet in my opinion the result is accurate, readable, and entertaining. Read it.

Life and Hockey in Silicon Valley

I wrote this story in the heyday of the technology boom, about the brain drain of Canadian hockey and programming talent to the United States. Ironically, many of the sources in the story have now moved back to Canada, or are unemployed in the U.S. The NHL is more lopsided than ever, though. Some readers will notice the presence of my buddy Jon Hyatt. He is one of the sources, and introduced me to many of the others. Read it.

News

Canadian Press Ontario Desk

Though I have spent the majority of my writing career in news, I have only these three stories in electronic format. They may be a bit dated, not material for the average Journal reader, but they're here for the record. Read them.

Product Reviews

Tamagotchi and Interstate ‘76

At The Convergence we were aware that we could never compete with bigger sites as a source for reviews. Therefore we concentrated on reviewing things that we knew we could make entertaining, such as an interesting video game and a ridiculous trendy toy.

Book Reviews

Canadian Press Entertainment Desk

CP receives many more books than it can ever read, so it has a bookshelf from which any CP employee can pick up a free book in exchange for writing a few paragraphs about it upon conclusion. Here are two I had published, Other Worlds and Guilty by Reason of Insanity. Of course, the Library section of this site has a lot more book reviews, if that's your bag.