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The McGill Tribune
The McGill Tribune is a weekly campus newspaper at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
Biometrics at the border
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is proposing a multi-billion-dollar biometrics campaign that will collect fingerprints and, eventually, facial recognition and iris information from all foreign travelers at American airports as they exit the country.
1317 days later: Rebuilding in New Orleans
Ask anyone who’s been to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina — real New Orleans, past the French Quarter and Bourbon Street and the one thing that’s brought up over and over is the people. How kind they were. How thankful. How — and this is the most surprising, after everything they’ve been through — happy. It’s been over three and a half years since the waters that covered the city receded, and the rebuilding has hardly started, but residents and volunteers alike are working towards Louis Armstrong’s wonderful world.
Google reinvents the library
Libraries are institutions unlike any others. They have served as architectural masterpieces, intellectual focal points, and keepers of the written word, from the mass-produced to the obscure. But with the rise of Google’s Book Search project, which has already digitized seven million books, rifling through yellowed volumes might be a thing of the past.
The secret(ly boring) life of private investigators
Everyone recognizes the decades-old private investigator stereotype: a mustached figure in a trench coat and black fedora, hiding under the windowsill with a pair of binoculars. Today’s P.I. is fighting to overcome the old typecast, but the profession is still as relevant as ever; the ability to uncover information in any form is a hot commodity for customers, who range from international insurance firms to lawyers to suspicious spouses.
Black & Blue: 18-year-old festival gets a face-lift
From October 8 to 14, Bad Boy Club Montreal held their 18th annual Black & Blue, a festival fundraiser for people living with HIV/AIDS. Combining a new artistic direction, hope for increased funding, and an innovative drug awareness campaign, Black & Blue is as fresh and relevant as ever.
SP&T News
SP&T News is a national source for news, technology and techniques aimed at security industry installers and dealers.
Learning through the lens
At the Medical Simulation Centre in Montreal’s McGill University, students and professors are doing something which has been taking off around the world — learning through the use of security cameras.
Avoiding the rush hour blues
With rising gas prices comes an increase in drive-off theft from the pumps, where people speed away with a full tank at someone else’s expense.
Unisys to integrate new ID management system for airports
In a $4.5 million deal, Unisys Canada Inc. has been selected by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to supply, integrate and manage a new identification management system for 29 airports throughout Canada.
Canadian Security
Canadian Security is a subscription-only magazine for professional security management.
The dark side of telecommuting
The easy access to information that makes telecommuting possible creates an opportunity for that same information to spread to places it doesn’t belong.
Retailers tackle internal controls
With the growth of retail organized crime in the Canadian marketplace, the types of security measures being employed by retailers is also growing, according to a new survey of medium and large retailers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Retail Council of Canada.
CLB Media Inc. | WorldSkills 2009
WorldSkills is a biannual international skills competition.
Providing coverage of the 2009 WorldSkills competition for CLB Media Inc. included creating video, print and web content for Design Product News, Canadian Electronics, Manufacturing Automation, Electrical Business and several other B2B publications.
WorldSkills 2009 wrap-up
From September 1 to 7, competitors from all over the world flocked to Calgary, Alberta, for WorldSkills 2009. The event had over 1,000 of the world’s top students and apprentices — aged 17 to 23 — competing for gold, silver and bronze medals in their respective fields, which spanned trades, services and technology from Electrical Installation and Information Network Cabling to Industrial Control.
The University of Toronto Bookstore Review
The University of Toronto Bookstore Review is a bi-annual review magazine covering recent releases.
DeLillo Dalliance
Falling Man, the fourteenth novel by Dan DeLillo, author of White Noise and Underworld, reveals slices of life following 9/11 with all the grace of a falling corpse.
Scrivener
Scrivener is a literary and visual arts magazine based in Montreal, QC.
Review: Lullabies for Little Criminals
The debut novel by Montreal writer Heather O’Neill is a far cry from the lighthearted, feel-good novel its lime green and hot pink cover professes it to be. Narrated by Baby (not a nickname), a twelve-year-old girl living in the rougher areas of Montreal in the 80s, Lullabies for Little Criminals is neither a heart-warming coming-of-age story nor a sentimental tragedy. Instead, it’s gritty, and more than sometime shocking.
GraniteNorth Publishing
GraniteNorth specializes in personal finance and investment for Canadians.
I provided copy editing for GraniteNorth’s second release, Financial Planning for Canadian Teachers, which gives educators essential planning strategies and information on investing, mortgages, pension plans, estate planning, insurance, real estate, income splitting and debt management.
I also provided general editorial services for Conservative Investing for Canadians, a guide to investing while preserving capital.