This is what Tim Hortons Christmas cups used to look like:

Yorkdale shopping centre parking lot on Boxing Day in 1998

PIECE OF THE WEEK: A Perfect Storm: The Children of Elderly Canadians with Dementia Are Fighting Over Their Estates and Tearing Families Apart buff.ly/4gO8ncP (Zoomer Magazine Carolyn Abraham)

ICYMI: Read Rob Csernyik 🏳️‍🌈's investigation into gambling-related suicides in Newfoundland & Labrador #nlpoli Part 1: Preventing deaths like Susan Piercey's theindependent.ca/news/investiga… Part 2: Learning lessons from Susan Piercey’s death theindependent.ca/news/investiga…

Literally anyone who works any job at all should expect a living wage. What would otherwise be the point of working

I've been travelling for nearly two years and have noticed this in multiple countries from people of assorted ages and backgrounds. It is absolutely baffling behaviour and, for the record, a topic I'm desperate to write an essay on.

Dang ol’ RIP Jimmy Carter

Happy new year! Looking forward to another year of sharing GCL picks, writing classes and more with all of you.

Today is a great day to dive into Rob Csernyik 🏳️‍🌈’s groundbreaking report on the relationship between gambling and suicide in Canada. Two years in the making, and funded by Prix Michener Award, this is journalism you don’t want to miss.

GCL HIGHLIGHT: How a former MPP and Toronto city councillor found himself living in a homeless shelter buff.ly/49WChJv (Toronto Star Ben Cohen)

Seven years ago today we featured Michael Lista's "The Hacker King" as our first piece on GCL. buff.ly/38qEnmO (Toronto Life Michael Lista)

ICYMI while on holiday.

In my first piece for WIRED, I dig into the waning influence of the "Taylor Swift effect" on sports betting.

Writing Great Canadian Business Journalism 101 is back on Wednesday, March 12. Sign up today for an early bird rate of only $40. [1/3]

Delighted to finally publish a feature with The Local, especially one about gambling.

Space is still available in my next Great Canadian Longform class, a three hour session on Business Journalism 101. I'll share the key tips and tricks I would have loved to have at the start of my career. Join me March 12, and learn more here. docs.google.com/document/d/12v…

Manitoba frequently has one of Canada's highest gambling addiction rates. Yet, in 13 separate years since 2000, the OCME has recorded zero gambling-related suicides. Experts say there are more. Learn more in my Prix Michener Award-supported investigation. winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2…

GCL HIGHLIGHT: To address gambling-related suicide in Manitoba, addiction professionals say medical officials first need to get in the game when it comes to identifying and collecting data on such deaths buff.ly/0aBDnmI (Winnipeg Free Press Rob Csernyik 🏳️‍🌈)