Elizabeth has a large network of sources across multiple beats and a knack for unearthing stories in unexpected places. She’s passionate about long reads, investigative and human-rights based journalism.

Read some of her work below. Award-winning and nominated pieces are marked with an asterisk.

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INVESTIGATIONS

• Overworked, underpaid: Ottawa’s chronic underfunding leaves First Nations water operators behind – Global News, Feb. 2021 (*)
• Thousands of Nova Scotians at risk of lead exposure from wells – Global News, Nov. 2019 (*)
• In Halifax, more than 100 schools on municipal water systems still haven’t tested for lead – Global News, Nov. 2019 (*)
• Exclusive: Sources identify ‘huge risk’ on Nova Scotia construction sites – Global News, Sept. 2019 (*)
• Coverups, lies a ‘systemic cancer’ in world of oilpatch health and safety breaches: whistleblowers – Global News, Aug. 2019 (*)
• Honduran women are leading a rights revolution. How many lives will it cost them? – National Observer, March 2018
• Inside Saskatchewan’s failure to stop a silent killer – National Observer, Oct. 2017 (*)
• Fear and money breed silence in Saskatchewan – National Observer, Oct. 2017 (*)
• Furry fiasco: Investigation finds canine fur at Kit and Ace – National Observer, Nov. 2015 (*)

LONG READS 

• ‘We are still here:’ Indigenous Tunisians still fighting for rights 1,300 years after colonization – Global News, March 2023
• Endometriosis: Why Canadian women flocking are flocking to a clinic in Bucharest for surgery – Global News, October 2022
• ‘I downplayed it all’: Métis man shares journey to self-love after residential school – Global News, July 2022
• Inadmissible: How a U.S. policy is wreaking havoc on the lives of Iranian-Canadians – Global News, April 2022
• Something is different about this trip to the Vatican. Phil Fontaine says it’s hope – Global News, March 2022
• From healing to disappointment, here’s what a papal apology could mean for residential school survivors – Global News, Dec. 2021 (*)
• Blackmailed and beaten: The life of a female journalist in Honduras – National Observer, May 2018
• Everybody in Uganda is kung-fu fighting – Roads and Kingdoms & Slate, Jan. 2015
• Grande Prairie Rugby Team touched by Kenyan friends  – CBC Edmonton, March 2015
• In one Uganda slum, gambling is a prudent financial investment – VICE, Feb. 2015

NEWS 

• ‘Stronger than we were before’: Nova Scotians reflect six months after mass shooting – Global News, Oct. 2020
• N.S. premier says chief of staff knew of allegations against former Liberal MLA for months – Global News, Feb. 2020
• Halifax site where crane collapsed had history safety violations, but no fines or penalties – Global News, Jan. 2020
• Halifax ranks eighth for federal spending commitments under Trudeau – Global News, Sept. 2020
• Less than 20 per cent of Health Canada staff receive mandatory ethics training – National Observer, May 2017
• Canadian permanent residents exempt from New American travel ban – National Observer, Jan. 2017
• Indigenous leaders shocked by exclusion from climate change meeting – National Observer, March 2015

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE EXTRACTIVE SECTOR

• Indigenous Xinka march in Guatemala to banish Canadian mine – National Observer, April 2018
• Raids, incarceration and decimation of Indigenous lands stain Canada’s reputation in Guatemala – National Observer, Dec. 2017
• Violence at Canadian-owned mines turns up heat on Trudeau to create new standards – National Observer, October 2016
• Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold fired a whistleblower. Then it spilled cyanide into five rivers – National Observer, June 2016 (*)