About Me

Since 1969 I have worked in virtually every aspect of broadcast journalism. I spent fifteen years with CBC Radio as a freelance journalist contributing reports and documentaries for local and national programs. I was also a CBC Radio news reporter in Yukon and Northwest Territories. And I regularly did on-air reports for Radio Canada International and reports and documentaries for CBC Radio’s Northern Service. I was a producer on CBC Radio’s Olympic Games coverage in Montreal in 1976, and executive producer of CBC Radio’s daily programming during the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. I spent five years as a story editor & producer at CBC TV in Montreal, producing feature reports for a current affairs program “Quebec Report” and an arts and culture program “Steppin’ Out”. I also produced one season of a weekly one-hour television program “North/South” hosted by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Flora MacDonald, for Vision TV. Since leaving the CBC more than 25 years ago, I have researched, written and/or directed television documentaries around the world. They have been seen on CBC, CTV, Bravo, the Discovery Channel, Channel 4 in England, and numerous other domestic and international networks.

I was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and moved to Montreal with my family at age 12. Went to high school in Lachine, Quebec, then a juniorite Catholic seminary in Dunkirk, NY, and two years of college at Holy Family Seminary in West Hartford, Connecticut.  I then became a working stiff in a variety of interesting fields and locations: the harbour in  West Saint John, New Brunswick and Montreal, Quebec; a railway construction gang in northern Alberta, and a motor manufacturing plant in Lachine, before finally launching into a career in the media.