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Commentary, reporting and feature-writing since 2007, filed from locations as varied as the Canadian prairies, refugee camps in northeast Myanmar and Barcelona’s Camp Nou.
Publications include The New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ESPN, The Mirror, beIN Sports and the Winnipeg Free Press.
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"There were tens of thousands of people in the streets. The demonstration was from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m." I can hardly fathom it. Then again, I can hear his downplayed, matter-of-fact way of speaking as I read his email. It’s the same voice that, slightly more than three years ago, calmly warned me that "there will be soldiers on the other side of the river; don’t look at them."
Jose Maria Marin left little doubt that Luiz Felipe Scolari would be appointed Brazil's manager for a second time when, having relieved the team's former boss Mano Menezes of his duties on Friday, he revealed that the next national team trainer would be Brazilian, have a "winning profile" and be best suited to help the Selecão "realise the dream of a home championship."
A few years ago, during a stay in Barcelona's Eixample district, I discovered the sound of centuries. "Tink-tink-tink," hammer to chisel to stone. My apartment looked directly onto the apse of Sagrada Familia, the back of the spectacular, unfinished basilica, whereupon the spire - one of more than a dozen that will have ascended upon completion in 2026 - is the text of Ave Maria.
It may be tempting to laugh at Michael Caputo, the top communications official at the United States' Health and Services Department, who recently accused Center for Disease Control scientists of "sedition" and predicted a socialist uprising would follow the November election. "Remember the Trump supporter who was shot and killed [in Portland late last month]?
Lionel Messi's recent photo shoot for PAPER is slaying the web. In the New York-based pop culture magazine's Sports Issue the Barcelona forward and Argentina captain - popularly styled the Greatest Of All Time - is shown petting a goat, holding a goat and playing football with 12 goats.
MYITKYINA, MYANMAR - People in northeast Myanmar know disappointment. They're also all too familiar with gunfire, with fleeing their homes and with what they feel is the systematic suppression of their ethnic Kachin culture.
"Alarmingly humanoid" was how the Smithsonian Magazine described the lamb’s facial features in a December article, published shortly after the completed restoration. That it took almost exactly a month for the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb to go viral is somewhat surprising, given the haste of social media. But for whatever reason, people decided they wanted to gawk at a "cartoonish" ovine in late January. And, naturally, to make memes.
Issa Ebombolo was not expecting the level of malnutrition he encountered among people displaced by flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai.
There is a Mexican saying: "If the river sounds, it's because it has water." One can almost imagine Mexico City-born Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who crossed an ocean on a cargo ship as a teenager, reflecting on this proverb throughout the making of his latest film.
In Numero Zero Umberto Eco describes the debauched practice of news-making, and in so doing the renowned semiotician, prominent thinker and celebrated author of The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery and Foucault's Pendulum delivers a novel as shallow as the exercise he satirizes.