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Paul Christopher Webster is a freelance writer and documentary film director based in Toronto, Canada.
Paul's work in film has appeared on the BBC, CBC, SWR, Discovery, Vision, National Geographic and Deutsche Welle Television networks. His work as a writer has been published in dozens of magazines, journals and newspapers across Canada, the U.S, the U.K., Germany and Switzerland.
He holds a BA from McGill University and an MA from Dalhousie University.
Paul has reported from 21 countries since 1992 and has won four national magazine awards for his writing, along with a Tier One Journalism Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Most recently, he won the top award for feature writing in the Public Issues category at the 2010 Western Magazine Awards. He is a regular contributor to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
His work on documentary films has garnered awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists, Hot Docs, the Canadian Academy of Film and Television, and PARISCIENCE, the international festival of scientific films.
Paul’s work focuses on themes in business, science, and politics. For samples of his work in these categories, please click on the links to articles below.
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CANADA'S MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR eHEALTH CONUNDRUM:
A 31-part series of articles investigating why Canada lags the world in building a public health infostructure. |
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In Russia’s remotest corner the descendants of gulag prisoners and guards now work side by side under Canadian bosses.
The Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine, March 23, 2011
To read the article, click on poster above.
Iraq is a Hard Place (cover story)
Iraq boasts the world's fourth-largest proven oil reserves. The daunting risks of drilling in the world's most violent oil frontier are offset by the fact that it is also the world's most promising oil frontier.
Report on Business Magazine, February 27, 2009
Hard-Hat Heaven
A powerful alliance of builders, bureaucrats and bankers is quietly sliding an entirely new foundation across some of the Canadian economy’s most important terrain. “There’s no magic in it,” says Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty “You just want to do it in a way that doesn’t saddle your kids with excessive payments.”
Report on Business Magazine, February 25, 2010
A Religious Revival:
Buddhism is Big Business in China
Phoenix is one of China’s largest private television networks, broadcasting to over 40 million Chinese homes, and bringing in more than US$100 million in annual advertising income. Although the network is partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, the world’s richest media baron, the majority owner is 57-year-old Liu Changle, who ranks 179th on Forbes’ most recent list of China’s richest people. His net worth is estimated at US$440 million. Phoenix, behind its low-budget façade, is a major money-maker.
Canadian Business, December 8, 2008
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The redlining of harm reduction programs
“Ottawa’s new approach is to criminalize what should still be seen as a health issue,” says Cathy McIsaac, executive director of Direction 180, a methadone clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. “You can’t even use the term harm reduction anymore when applying for federal funding. The taps have been turned off.”
Canadian Medical Association Journal, November 24, 2011
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GLOBAL HEALTH:
AN EVERYDAY HOLOCAUST OF PREVENTABLE DEATHS
To see articles from this 18 part series, follow this link. |
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ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE MOVING FROM SOUTH ASIA TO EUROPE TO NORTH AMERICA: A GLOBALIZING HEALTH CRISIS
To see articles from this 12-part series, please follow this link |
To view these films, click on the links below.
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Two documentary films about the ring of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean, from prospecttv
La Ceinture de Feu du Pacifique-2
From: prospecttv | 2 juin, 2011
La ceinture de feu du Pacifique - Kamtchatka, Hawaii et Alaska
un film de Jürgen Hansen et Paul Webster
Montage: Frédéric Frankel
La Ceinture de Feu du Pacifique-3
From: prospecttv | 2 juin, 2011
La Ceinture de Feu du Pacifique - Mexique et Guatemala
un film de Jürgen Hansen et Paul Webster
Montage: Frédéric Frankel
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JAPAN’S NUCLEAR CRISIS IN CONTEXT
Should the U.S. More Tightly Control Nuclear Fuel It Makes?
Some say the U.S. government should reexamine its legal obligations under the law and add safety rules to the agreements countries sign when they buy U.S. fuel or reactors.
ScienceInsider, 29 March 2011 |
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To see more articles on nuclear power and nuclear weapons, please follow this link. |
Why is nuclear safety always shrouded in secrecy?
The Japanese Government was quickly accused of hiding the full extent of the danger at the Fukushima nuclear facility. Why is nuclear safety always shrouded in secrecy?
CBC Radio, The Current, March 22, 2011 |
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To view Deutsche Welle's English-language version of this film, click on poster above.
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A 30 minute documentary film for SWR and Deutsche Welle International Television, Germany
Canadian Aboriginal People can block multi-billion dollar industrial mega-projects including the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by Enbridge Inc. to connect Canada's controversially dirty oil sands with markets in Asia. Enbridge admits it may cost upwards of a billion dollars to win Aboriginal support.
Deutsche Welle English web English-language broadcast Feb 8, 2010.
SWR German website German-language broadcast Feb 3, 2010. |
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Contact Paul via email
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