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TORONTO STAR -- The West Coast may not be ready for Canada's next giant earthquake. But this First Nation is.
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ '22) -- ANACLA, B.C. — Looking back, Qiicqiica Dennis thinks his awful trip five years ago — shattered, and terrified in the back of a car on a bumpy road home — echoed what his Huu-ay-aht ancestors experienced during the legendary earthquake and tsunami that happened generations ago. The heaving ground, the struggle to stay alive. READ MORE.
TORONTO STAR -- Stuck in limbo. Preyed on by kidnappers. In shadow of Trump's wall, Biden's plan creates danger zone for migrants at Mexican border
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ '22) -- TIJUANA, Mexico—Nicole is exhausted from staying awake, night after night, to make sure her two tiny daughters are not kidnapped by child traffickers. READ MORE.
NEWS DECODER -- Decoder: What does it mean to be German?
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ '22) -- When Indian-American Shuchi Thanawala worked as an academic in Munich she found it hard to fit in. “There were so few people of colour that we would wave at each other across the street,” Thanawala said at the time. But this was in the early 1990s when people of colour were a small minority in Germany and belonging meant having four grandparents with German names. READ MORE.
TORONTO STAR -- Why residents of ‘the most beautiful city in the world’ are struggling to survive — and say they feel abandoned by authorities
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ '22) -- MARSEILLE, France— It is 10 a.m. but the squalid streets beneath the stained tower blocks of the Rosiers neighbourhood are deserted. A few young men armed with Kalashnikovs stand guard near a playground where torn garbage bags and rusted-out shopping carts perch in place of children. READ MORE.
TORONTO STAR -- On the Hollywood picket line: With kids in tow, striking actors describe ‘feast or famine’ in harsh industry
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ '22) -- LOS ANGELES— It was 10 a.m., and hundreds of actors and writers had already started filing along the scorching one-mile loop outside the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. READ MORE.
TORONTO STAR -- 30 years in jail for a murder they say they didn’t commit. These sisters’ first trip together was harder than either could have imagined
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ '22) -- She had waited a lifetime to dip her feet in the ocean. Now Odelia Quewezance would not wait one minute longer. She changed into borrowed clothes, squeezed her daughter, Kursten, and rushed toward the beach. READ MORE.
TORONTO STAR -- Hot shots: Are laced drugs being used to murder people?
Guest: KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) -- Are criminals using laced drugs to target and murder people? With overdose deaths more than quadrupling from 2016 to 2021 in the Niagara region and investigations ongoing, some say that some of the once-believed accidental deaths may have actually been caused by ingestion of “hot shots” (a recreational drug intentionally laced with a lethal substance, like fentanyl). Homicides disguised as an overdose are hard to prove. There’s no set threshold for authorities to investigate an overdose death that might be suspicious and these cases are incredibly hard to prove. This episode was produced by Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar. LISTEN HERE.
TORONTO STAR -- Fully investigating overdose deaths could be key to uncovering ‘hot shot’ murders
BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) -- In Niagara no death is just an overdose. As the region grapples with a spiralling opioid crisis, local police are taking new steps to scrutinize fatal overdoses — and to lay criminal blame where possible. READ MORE.
