ABOUT ME
Passionate journalist, digger and investigator. I have reported on the 905 extensively, piercing the veil on many issues pertaining to housing, transportation and healthcare. I am particularly interested in urbanism and growth related issues. Learning about history is often a pass-time for me, often doing archival research for my own enjoyment. I got my start covering Brampton city council. I have since done the same for Oakville and Halton Hills. Federal, provincial and the school boards all round out my coverage.
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Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s voice offers a universal message
Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s voice offers a universal message for South Asian diasporas separated by an ocean Gurinder Chadha’s first film I’m British but…, released in 1989, explores the dueling identities many second-generation immigrants struggle to reconcile. Through a series of interviews and slice-of-life scenes — mostly crafted through the lens of music —Chadha told the… Read more
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Brampton MPP Amarjot Sandhu pleads guilty after being charged with operating illegal basement suites weeks before he was elected
Brampton West MPP Amarjot Sandhu, while campaigning to get that job last year, was charged with four non-criminal offences under provincial law related to having illegal secondary suites at two properties he owns, court documents show. He pleaded guilty on those charges three weeks ago and was given a suspended sentence. City of Brampton bylaw… Read more
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Oakville girl, 5, becomes published author with two children’s books
Local girl pens two children’s books While most children in mid-August are getting ready to go back to school, five-year-old Journee Campbell is helping them prepare in more ways than one. The Oakville youngster is the author of two books: “The Little Voice in my Head” and her latest work “Save Your Tears Have no… Read more
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Who was the iconic Chicken Man of Halton Hills?
Sightings of the Chicken Man around Halton Hills caused much excitement, but few actually knew anything about him. HaltonHillsToday connected with his brother and friends to find out more about this man of mystery. A Georgetown brewery has made the Chicken Man a household name with its beer label inspired by the local resident who commonly rode around town… Read more
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100 years on, the nation still remembers the Georgetown Boys
Georgetown’s Cedarvale Park – formerly Cedarvale Farm – changed the lives of over 100 Armenian refugees and set the tone for Canadian humanitarianism for decades to come They are all gone now, so we can never directly hear what they have to say about Georgetown’s Cedarvale Park. But Canada and Armenian Canadians have not forgotten… Read more
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When it comes to tourism during COVID-19, there are two Caledons
Piano teacher Jenni Le Forestier girded herself for the fall. She feared the coming flood of tourists who would fill up her tiny hamlet within the bucolic town of Caledon, Ont., to see the leaves change colour. Meanwhile, arts centre co-founders Jeremy and Jordan Grant wonder with an equal sense of dread where some of… Read more
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