Culture Trip • 10th May 2020

Quarantined in Mexico

And so, like the countless others now potentially stranded on foreign soil, this chronically nomadic Canadian writer was forced to make a decision: heed the advice of government officials and imploring relatives and make my way “home”, or stay the course, hunker down, and try to make this thing work.

National Geographic • 15th April 2020

Coronavirus, Mariachis, and Mexico City

Having so far avoided the worst of the pandemic, Mexico is bracing for its own reckoning with the Coronavirus. Stricter measures are being implemented, businesses are closing, and tourism is all but shut down. All of this with millions of citizens floating along the edges of an already fragile economy.

Lonely Planet • 15th January 2020

Envision Costa Rica: The world’s most sustainable festival

Envision has earned a reputation as one of the world’s greenest festivals, a gathering for music, yoga, and a variety of wellness and socially-conscious activities. Built on ideals of sustainability, art, and personal and spiritual enlightenment, the festival is more than a party in paradise.

Medium / The Startup Magazine • 8th January 2020

Changing the World, One Jungle Party at a Time

An entire temporary society running on how things should be. Not yearned for in some theoretical haze but built and bought and paid for. Swiped with a credit card and issued by e-ticket. Made real. Dreams starting to live in the world they wish to change.

Lonely Planet • 7th October 2019

Like a Local: An Autumn Tour of Montréal

Autumn in Montréal is a two-act play. The first scenes are set to a multi-colored backdrop of burnt amber and willowing orange, the Quebecois characters linking arms and popping their collars.

EDM.com - The Latest Electronic Dance Music & News • 22nd August 2019

Osheaga 2019: Montréal Honors its History in EDM

Osheaga is continuing Montréal’s commitment to electronic music. Here are some highlights from Osheaga 2019.

Lonely Planet • 23rd July 2019

A Revival of Jewish Culture in Krakow

The horrors of the Holocaust ravaged Poland’s Jewish community to near-extinction, but lately there have been signs of a revival. Poles – Jews and Gentiles alike – are rediscovering their shared history as Jewish life and culture is slowly returning to Krakow.

Lonely Planet • 23rd May 2019

A Regional Road Map to Colombia's Food Culture

From Caribbean flavors and fresh seafood in the north to the hearty dishes of Antioquia, exploring the world of Colombian food is its own form of travel guide.

Lonely Planet • 21st March 2019

At the Border in Tijuana

The border looms. Perpetually. At night, a row of huge spotlights shine along the edge of the city; a glowing, glaring, piece of politics so perennial that it’s become just another part of the skyline. During the day, the heavy rusted metal follows you as drive into town, silently herding you south.

Lonely Planet • 11th February 2019

Under the radar USA: multiculturalism in El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a border town. Cowboy boots and corn tortillas, border walls and cross-border communities, one of the nation’s safest cities practically sharing a downtown with one of the world’s most infamously dangerous: Welcome to El Paso.

Medium • 19th October 2019

JOKER Forces Us to Witness and Rethink Mental Health

This film made me both witness the ravages of mental illness and recognize my own experiences in them, melting the walls between definitions. If that’s not an example of what art is supposed to do for us, I don’t know what is.

Sustainable Brands • 24th April 2019

Canadian CleanTech Company Using Algae to Combat Climate

Pond Technologies is a Canadian cleantech company using nature’s filters to combat climate change, while also providing a model to help existing industries join the shift towards a low-carbon economy via value-added, recycled-carbon products.

Pond Tech • 13th June 2019

Bridging the Gap Between Business and the Environment

Pond Technologies has created a model to help existing industries join the shift towards a low-carbon economy via value-added, recycled-carbon products.

Medium / Travel • 16th April 2019

One Night in Bombay

Travel writer Jason Najum hits the streets of Mumbai and gets a truly local experience.

Medium / Travel • 16th April 2019

Planting Trees in an Indian Desert

I’ve come to volunteer at Sadhana Forest, a reforestation project in southeastern India’s Tamil Nadu province. Something different was apparently going on in the forest...

Lonely Planet • 24th May 2019

Road Trip Through Mexico's Baja California

Baja California evokes a rugged, wild west kind of adventure. Stretching some 760 miles south from the US border, this Mexican peninsula is a land of compelling contrasts.

Lonely Planet • 2nd July 2019

A Guide to Prague's Local Cultural Scene

Prague is a continental epicenter. It’s not only the Czech Republic’s capital, but arguably the region’s most culturally relevant city. And the word is out, with tourism on the rise. Yet there’s more there than the usual tourist to-do list.

HuffPost • 13th May 2017

Remembering My Mother's Dying Breaths On This Mother's Day

The simple and unassuming woman that you might not have noticed had a strength and wisdom that most could learn from. Featured on HuffPost's Mother's Day special

Medium • 1st June 2018

It’s All Gotta Go (A Man on #MeToo)

We seem to be at the beginning of what can only be called a sexual revolution. Brave voices dragging the culturally acceptable up against the morally obvious and saying "nuh uh, no more". A line has finally been drawn: on one side the past; on the other, something better.

Lonely Planet • 24th October 2018

Emerging Montreal: walk the less touristed neighborhoods

Montreal is a collage of language and history, a sum of its eclectic and evolving parts...but beyond the bagels of Mile End and cobblestones of Old Montreal are districts that, despite being off the tourist trail, remain vibrant parts of the city’s unique tapestry.