2026 DIGITAL PUBLISHING AWARD NOMINATION
My investigative series “A Canadian Arctic Port in the Shadow of Trump 2.0” — for Canada’s National Observer — has been nominated for a 2026 Digital Publishing Award for Best News Coverage. Here’s an excerpt:
AWARDS FOR PITFALL
At the November Writer’s Trust/Basillie Prize gala in Toronto with Margaret Atwood and Jim Basillie, flanked by fellow prize finalists Wendy H. Wong and Gregor Craigie.
- Finalist for the $60,000 Writer’s Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Winner of First prize in the 2024 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Competition for British Columbian Authors of Nonfiction
- Finalist for the 2024 Banff Centre Mountain Book Competition in the Environmental Literature category
- Winner of The US Science in Society Journalism Book Award
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
How Much Further Can Mining Go?
“Unless business as usual can change, companies will venture into ever deeper, darker, and riskier places.”
Read an abridged chapter from my book Pitfall, published by The Walrus
CHRIS HEDGES IN VANCOUVER
I met journalist Chris Hedges at the 2026 WebSummit in Vancouver — he told me what it was like to collaborate with cartoon journalist Joe Sacco on one of my favorite non-fiction books, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. I gave him a copy of my book Pitfall!