Articles in National Magazine Award Gold Medal


December 2007

The Dead Are More Visible

NMA Gold Medal: Fiction


June 2007

Tank Talk

Overheard at the armoury. NMA Gold Medal: Spot Illustration

The Mindful Museum

Museums were once mausoleums of the past, but the museum of the future will help us understand our place in the vast expanse of time. NMA Gold Medal: Arts & Entertainment


May 2007

Alienated Cosmopolitans

Can we be world citizens yet still retain a sense of place? NMA Gold Medal: Portrait Photography


April 2007

Red Rush

No longer kept in check by cold winters, the mountain pine beetle has killed $50 billion worth of BC forest in less than a decade. NMA Gold Medal: Best New Writer; NMA nominee: Science, Technology & the Environment

God’s Slow Death

Three atheists argue for reason in the face of faith. NMA Gold Medal: Illustration

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