Here are samples of different projects we’ve worked on, as well as copies of the articles we have published.
Click on any of the titles below to see them.
Climate Related Work
- Glasgow Financial Alliances for Net Zero (GFANZ):
- Scaling Transition Finance and Real-economy Decarbonization, Supplement to the 2022 Net-zero Transition Plans report
- Recommendations and Guidance on Financial Institution Net-zero Transition Plans
- Real-Economy Transition Plans
- Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Driving Enhancement, Convergence, and Adoption
Articles/White Papers (prepared for the Chartered Insurance Professionals Society)
- Let’s talk about Allyship — CIP Society Quarterly Review — Winter 2024
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — Spring 2023
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — October 2022
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — May 2022
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — October 2021
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — April 2021
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — October 2020
- CIP Society Quarterly Review — March 2020
- Mergers & Acquisition Insurance — Part II
- Mergers and Acquisitions Insurance
- Legal Expense Insurance
- Treating Customers Fairly
- From Rootstock to Bottle
- What Blockchain Can Do for the Insurance Industry
- Insuring Unique and Unusual Properties
- Clearing the Haze What Insurance Professionals Need to Know About Cannabis in Canada
- Cyberbullying
- Reputation Risk Insurance — Insuring Your Good Name
- Terrorism Risk and Insurance
- Preparing for an Emergency
- Peer-to-Peer Insurance Models — Sharing Economy Adds (New) Tech Tools to (Old) Risk Pooling
- Risks Associated with Fracking in North America
- Drones — The Latest Buzz for the Insurance Industry
- Understanding Political Risk Insurance
- Uber Ride Sharing and Liability Bearing
- Airbnb – Unique Accommodations and Unique Insurance Issues
- Reigning In Auto Insurance Rates by Regulation
- Pet Insurance
- Living High In the Sky — Trends in Condo Insurance
- Insuring Green Roofs
- Insuring Wine Collections
- Do Cell Phones Pose an Emerging Risk for Insurers
- Hydraulic Fracking — An Emerging Insurance Issue
- Do You Recall?
- Insuring Art
Manuals and Guides
Newsletters
Business Articles
Writer’s Edge columns (published in CICBV’s Business Valuator)
- Know thy [fill in the blank] (Spring 2016)
- A Style of Your Own (Winter 2015)
- Keeping it Short (Fall 2015)
- Accentuate the Positive (Summer 2015)
- Could You Repeat That (Spring 2015)
- The Editor’s Role (Winter 2014)
- Getting Dates Right (Fall 2014)
- Random Acts of Capitalization (Summer 2014)
- Why Layout Matters (Winter 2013)
- Are Your Readers Taking Your Cue? (Fall 2013)
- SEO Your Email (Summer 2013)
- Creating Ambiguity (Spring 2013)
- In Praise of Paragraphs (Winter 2012)
- In 500 Words or Less (Fall 2012)
- Where to Place References (Summer 2012)
- Citation Formatting (Spring 2012)
- Help for Poor Spellers (Winter 2011)
- Are you using “a”, “and”, and “the” properly? (Fall 2011)
- The Art of Writing Good Headings (July 2011)
- Pesky Prepositions (March 2011)
- How Long Is Your List? The Series Comma Makes It Clear (December 2010)
- Executive Summaries (September 2010)
- Are You a Slasher? (June 2010)
- Applying Storytelling Techniques to Report Writing (March 2010)
- The Ideal Length (December 2009)
- Crafting Bullet Lists (September 2009)
- The Virtues of Active Voice (July 2009)
- The Power of Ordinary Words (March 2009)
- CanadianCapital On-Line Zine Case Study: Working with Family – featured on Canadian Capital Magazine (on-line edition) April 2012
- E-mail Best Practices – featured in CheckMark, Autumn 2008, a publication of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
Magazines and Newspaper Articles
- Museum with a Mission: Can Art Help Bridge the Western/Muslim Divide? (Rochester Magazine, May 2015)
- Having a Grown Up Snow Day (Rochester Magazine, January 2011)
- Ice Attack (Impact Magazine November 2010)
- Niagara’s sweet celebration (Rochester Magazine, January 2010)
- As Luminato floods Toronto with creativity you can take your pick (Democrat and Chronicle, May 2009)
- Edible Montreal: the 11-day High Lights Festival (Rochester Magazine, January 2009)
- Water powers Welland Canal in St. Catharines (Democrat and Chronicle, September 2008)
- Plenty to see at Toronto’s HotDocs film festival (Democrat and Chronicle, March 2008)
- Winter in Niagara-on-the-Lake (Rochester Magazine, December 2008)
- Gourmet Toronto Delux hotel packages (Rochester Magazine, February 2008)
- Go ahead and challenge yourself (Toronto Star, December 2007)
- Subway blitz opened hearts and pockets (Toronto Star, December 2006)
- Poison pills for the environment (Toronto Star, March 2006)