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H.G. Watson

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  • Writer, Freelance
  • Journalism Instructor, Ryerson University
Toronto
As seen in: Medium, MSN Canada, Yahoo Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), CBC Arts, The Toronto Star, VICE, Chatelaine, Maclean's, Nieman Lab and
Writer. Sometimes teacher, sometimes audience development. Writing a book about the teen mags of the 1990s and 2000s. 👩‍💻💖

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Is Canada measuring air quality accurately?

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By H.G. Watson Verified
| TorontoToday.ca Verified
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. On Wednesday, July 15, Torontonians looked to the sky and found the sun obscured by haze. It wasn’t smog or fog – it was smoke drifting down from 185 active wildfires in northern Ontario.
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In defense of blue-collar creative work

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By H.G. Watson Verified
| J-Source Verified
On the necessity of valuing the labour of writing When I started my Master of Fine Arts in the summer of 2023, AI was creeping into more of our lives. I get the fascination of bringing ideas to life with ChatGPT or Claude, in a way—It’s playing God without the messy work of tilling Eden. But that’s just the thing: creation is more than an idea. It’s the work. How many great novels, movies, investigative features, came because of the thinking, the research, the edit? Almost all of them, I’d wager.
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How Canada Can Become a Nuclear Superpower

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By H.G. Watson Verified
| Maclean's Verified
I first got interested in nuclear energy after the birth of my son in 2018. As an emergency physician, I specialize in triage, focusing limited time and resources on the most urgent problems. When I applied that logic to the climate crisis, the defining threat facing my son’s generation, the power of nuclear energy became clear. Between 1971 and 1993, Canada commissioned 22 reactors—one per year—resulting in one of the fastest per capita additions of clean energy the world has ever seen.
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