Yup, I’m that guy who won’t shut up about Canada. Sorry.

But it’s not all maple syrup and polite small talk. I write about Canada as a living, breathing contradiction. A country with abandoned mining towns and bleeding-edge AI labs. A place shaped by quiet revolutions and the occasional flash of chaos. What keeps me coming back, story after story, is Canada’s layered legacy. From the First Peoples who shaped this land long before borders existed, to the European settlers who came later, to the generations of immigrants who have been rewriting the national story ever since. Canada doesn’t sit still. It evolves, glitches, adapts. And I’m here to write my way through all of it.

I’m a journalist by trade. I studied it in college (twice, but that’s a whole different story). I cover the tech shaping Canada’s future—today. Artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty, fun little ditties about scrappy startups… I cover it all. My job is to make complex systems readable, and maybe even enjoyable, without dumbing anything down.

My work has appeared in The Logic, Ottawa Business Journal, Android Authority, Mobile Syrup, Ottawa Life Magazine, Glue Magazine, and other fine publications that have tolerated my word count.

But journalism is only half the story. I spend a lot of time writing fiction. Some of it is short and sharp. Some of it lives in the past, where every detail counts. And some of it jumps ahead, imagining what’s next. I like to ask the what-ifs: What if Canada keeps moving forward? What if it stumbles? What if, no matter what we do, the world drags us down with it—just like it has before? I write about what it means to be here. Now, then, and someday.

My love for Canada runs deep. I was born here, a first-generation kid raised by English immigrants. I even had a little British accent for a while—charming at age five, less so by junior high. I spent seven years teaching English abroad, living across Asia and Europe, from South Korea to Thailand, Russia to Austria. Not just visiting—living. That kind of immersion gave me a view of Canada I never would have found by staying put.

I’ve driven across this country three times and lived in five provinces. These days, I call Ottawa home, but I love Vancouver Island as much as Cape Breton, Edmonton as much as Kitchener. I even spent a year at sea, working on a commercial fishing trawler off the west coast of British Columbia. I think being a little lost and a little reckless helps the writing. It keeps me curious. Keeps me listening.

Writing about Canada also means writing from within it. I live with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that shapes how I move through the world, both physically and creatively. It’s taught me resilience and the value of pacing myself—on the page and in life. I was also raised in Ottawa’s LGBTQ+ community by a passionate, stubborn, and brilliant mother. She was a teacher, an activist, and one of the co-founders of Ottawa Pride. I grew up surrounded by people who had to fight to be heard. That kind of upbringing changes how you see a place. It changes what you choose to write down.

So yeah, I’m the guy who writes about Canada. Not just the headlines or the history books, but the little in-between spaces, too. The overlooked stories. The quiet revolutions that never made the news. Thanks for being curious. I hope you’ll stick around and maybe see this country in a new light. And if not—no hard feelings. But shove off, then, hoser. Sorry.