— Laas Turnbull, editor, Report on Business Magazine

I worked at the Globe and Mail as a magazine editor for 12 years before getting the opportunity to turn full-time to writing. For three years I was a senior writer at Report on Business Magazine, holding one of the very few senior staff-writing jobs in Canadian magazines.

Every year during that period, despite knowing virtually nothing about business when I started, I was lucky enough to win a national award for my work. One of my stories during this period, "Nickeled and Damned" — about the town of Placentia, Nfld. and how it came to pin all its economic hopes on a promised Inco refinery that never came — was featured in an anthology of the 25 best stories in 25 years in Canadian magazines. On this page are links to some of my more recent pieces, mostly written for Toronto Life magazine.

Click on the images at the right to read a selection of past stories...