Worked as a news reporter at CJOH-TV in Ottawa for one year, then worked for 8 years across Canada as a reporter, writer and producer for CBC Radio and Television. In 2005 moved to New York City to run the CBC's news bureau at the United Nations. My work appears on CBC TV, CBC Newsworld, CBC Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio and also on the French networks of Radio-Canada.

 

In 1994, I created the Canadian Parliament's first web site. Also produced and narrated thousands of short news reports, dozens of longer documentaries and several TV shows.

 

I regularly perform live news reports on national television and most of the time it's completely improvised. BOFA taught me that you don't have to know what you're going to say when you go on. You just have to be confident in your ability to do it.

 

Single and looking.

 

I'll never forget the day the late Johnson Moretti came and told us we had to cut two members from our team. The CIG had a new rule that limited each team to 8 players. We were devastated. Mrs. Moore asked the
2 youngest players to leave. It was awful. A week later Johnson came back and told us we could have ten players. I can't describe how excited we all were. Johnson told us he couldn't break a team.

 

Moving overseas and writing a screenplay for BOFA: The movie.

 

Meeting and interviewing world leaders and famous people: from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Kofi Annan, Nicole Kidman to Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, whom I recently challenged over his inability to protect the people of Darfur.

 

Being on a team that won the Howard Jerome Trophy has actually been the best award of my life. Nothing else will ever match the sweat, emotion and fun that went into BOFA.