Showreel
2025
This is a cutdown of some of my on-camera reporting experience in investigative. Keep scrolling for a look at some highlights of my work.
*At CBC, the byline of major investigations includes all editorial team members (producer, associate producer, and TV host) to reflect the team effort, with the writer listed first.
Broken Homes, Broken Promises
2023, short-form, data investigation
Digital news story: Ontario long-term care homes with poor records are getting tax dollars to expand
For this short-form story, I investigated the promises provincial government officials made to improve safety in long-term care after the pandemic saw 80% of COVID deaths happen in these homes. I analyzed policy, funding and health data and followed a daughter's journey to protect Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro who now lives in an Ontario care home. The piece culminated in an accountability interview with Ontario’s Government House Leader and Minister of Long-term Care.
Child Suicide and Sextortion
2023, short-form, hidden identity
Digital news story: Social media apps that facilitate sextortion blamed for not doing enough to prevent it
This investigation began with exclusive, North American data given to me by a source at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection detailing sums of reported victims who had met their abuser on each social media app. The sextortion industry, largely based in Nigeria, had guide books and systems shared among criminals on messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp. Beyond the data, I uncovered nearly a dozen children and youth who had died by suicide in the last three years because of sextortion, and interviewed a father who lost his son. I also conducted a hidden-identity interview on-camera with a young man who nearly killed himself but now helps other victims on the reddit forum r/sextortion.
North Korean Forced Labour in Clothing Supply Chains
2021, long-form, OSINT
I used shipping records and satellite imagery to link a Chinese factory suspected of using North Korean labor to a Canadian clothing retailer. I used satellite imagery to locate the Dandong factory location and liaised with a covert videographer in China. I took extreme care to ensure that his identity would not be compromised and his payment would not be tracked. I analyzed visual clues within the hidden camera footage to identify workers at the factory. Following the broadcast of the story, Reitmans removed all clothing purchased from that factory from their shelves.
Abuse and Neglect in Long-term Care
2019, long-form, hidden camera + data
Digital news story: Hidden camera footage reveals overstretched nursing home staff struggling to care for residents
I went undercover as a support volunteer at a nursing home for six weeks, capturing evidence of neglect in long-term care. I adapted to unpredictable situations, making quick decisions about when to record and when to stop recording, based on legal and editorial considerations. This story was the second in a five-year series investigating systemic abuse and neglect in Canadian long-term care, and it earned the continuing coverage award from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
Illegal Recycling Trade
2019, long-form, covert tracking
Digital 2: (contributed to the journalism but didn’t write) Canada's plastic recycling dumped and burned overseas
The team went undercover overseas and posed as recycling brokers to expose the lucrative plastic recycling business. We revealed that Malaysian companies are willing to break the law to buy Canadian plastic and show how some of it is dumped and burned in illegal landfills, where the toxic fumes and run-off appear to be making people sick. Back in Canada, we bought nine tonnes of plastic and secretly tracked where the major recycling companies took it. This investigation won the “Best Long Feature” award from the Radio Television Digital News Association. My colleague and I were invited to speak about this project at the Hot Docs Festival and at Convergence Tech’s Challenge for Climate Action conference.
Food Insecurity in Northern Canada
2019, long-form, financial investigation
Digital news story: Why millions of dollars in food subsidies haven't lessened food insecurity in the North
Used open-source financial data and other investigative techniques to do a comprehensive analysis of grocery chain profit-margins compared to operation-cost across Canada. I field produced shoots in Iqaluit, Nunavut, adapting to an unfamiliar climate and territory and having to travel hours with crew and gear to remote shoot locations by snowmobile. Extreme weather forced adjustments and nearly every shoot needed to be rescheduled or reimagined at the last minute because of these factors, but quickly adapted to find new characters and locations to ensure we finished shooting on schedule.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
2016, digital project, OSINT
Digital profile sample: Unresolved: Della Ootoova
Full project: Missing and Murdered
I was an investigative reporter on a nation-wide project profiling cases of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. I uncovered several cases where the authorities had deemed a death a suicide or accident, but the family and community felt it was murder and wrote profiles on each of the women after conducting interviews with their families and/or communities. The project earned an investigative award from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
ABOUT ME
Since relocating to London from Toronto last year, I had the opportunity to freelance as an investigative journalist for BBC Arabic and a producer for Sky News while working on two documentaries in development. With a decade of experience in investigative, I’ve reported extensively on issues at the crossroads of consumer affairs and human rights, including global supply chains, food insecurity, sextortion and health and science misinformation.