Digital journalist with CBC News. Previous stints at newspapers, magazines and broadcasting companies in Halifax, Ottawa, Tokyo and Dubai.

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'Q Day' Is Coming: Is the World Prepared?

'Q Day' Is Coming: Is the World Prepared?

Centre for International Governance Innovation — How should we respond? And how will that response shape a potentially transformative technology at a pivotal stage of development?

Canada at War: How Two Decades of Conflict Have Changed a Country

Canada at War: How Two Decades of Conflict Have Changed a Country

Vice — First there was Afghanistan, then Libya, then Iraq, where it now looks like we'll have troops until at least 2019. How has this affected our country? What changes has the "war on terrorism" brought home? And what does it mean for Canada's future?

Dusting off outdated patterns

Dusting off outdated patterns

Nature Magazine — Japan’s government wants to make the country more “innovation friendly” and it’s urging universities to help by undertaking major reforms. But experts say key changes are also needed outside of higher education.

Is Japan leaving the Rohingya out in the cold?

Is Japan leaving the Rohingya out in the cold?

The Japan Times — As violence flares around the world's largest group of stateless people in Myanmar, an exile is pleading with Tokyo to come to their aid.

Messaging app wars take new turn with Line IPO

Messaging app wars take new turn with Line IPO

Al Jazeera — Line has nearly 220 million monthly active users worldwide, but the company faces stiff competition from rivals who are vying for a bigger piece of the global market.

Top court green-lights surveillance of Japan's Muslims

Top court green-lights surveillance of Japan's Muslims

Al Jazeera — The country's Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging extensive police profiling and surveillance of Muslims across Japan.

Who's watching whom in Japan? It's a state secret

Who's watching whom in Japan? It's a state secret

The Japan Times — "Japanese police departments have tremendous power to surveil,” said lawyer Daisuke Igeta. “This is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Growing chorus of experts is raising ethical questions about the future of robotics

Growing chorus of experts is raising ethical questions about the future of robotics

The Japan Times — Japan's government hopes that robots will help overcome a demographic crisis and fix the economy. But getting them out of factories and into other corners of society presents all kinds of moral challenges.

Life on the Island at the Center of Tensions Between the US and China

Life on the Island at the Center of Tensions Between the US and China

Vice — Okinawa is a spellbinding place where you can waste away your vacation days hopping from island to island. But its people also find themselves caught up in worsening geopolitical tensions with China.

Victims seek redress for 'unparalleled massacre' of Tokyo air raid

Victims seek redress for 'unparalleled massacre' of Tokyo air raid

The Japan Times — It was among the deadliest wartime events in history, killing an estimated 100,000 people. So why has the Great Tokyo Air Raid never been properly memorialized?

Meet the Canadian challenging America's drone war

Meet the Canadian challenging America's drone war

CBC — Jameel Jaffer, a human rights lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, has emerged as a formidable critic of U.S. national security policy.

New Khadr film may be played in court at Guantanamo

New Khadr film may be played in court at Guantanamo

CTV NEWS — The 99-minute documentary paints a sympathetic portrait of Omar Khadr as a child soldier who has lived in a legal black hole, and has allegedly endured torture by U.S. authorities since his capture in Afghanistan.

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