Hi! I’m Rowan. I am a freelance journalist and feature writer based in Toronto and sometimes from Vancouver Island. I focus on Canadian health and social issues, from substance use to sexual health and migration. I tell complex stories impacting people and the world, from close and afar, to ignite change, harmony and better understanding. My long-form, human-centred stories combine research and investigation to report comprehensively.
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Community Newsletter: A Part of the City
The goal was to make a small platform for folks whose perspectives are often excluded from mainstream media, while providing practical and engaging content. The project is also available in a printed version that was delivered to some community spaces and shelters in Toronto. The interviews are condensed for clarity — but they did not go through a traditional fact-checking process. The purpose was simply for each interviewee’s perspective to be shared. This is not to suggest there are inaccuracies, but rather to acknowledge a different type of journalistic process grounded in building relationships within a community.
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Feature: Vancouver Island outdoor enthusiasts want authorities to ‘open the gates’ to the backcountry. Here’s why it’s complicated. (The Discourse)
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of unceded land privatized decades ago are blocked off — causing confusion and frustration for many outdoor lovers. But accessing land with complex ownership is far from simple.
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Feature: ‘The biggest keyword is hope’: The expanding futures of Syrian students (The Eyeopener)
Syrian students are envisioning lives with new possibilities and feeling relief now that a repressive regime has ended
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