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| About the writer |
 My
career as a journalist had humble beginnings. I filed farm market
reports for CBC's "Radio Noon", and kept a close eye on how
the A1 and A2 steers were doing at the Toronto Stockyards. Not the most
glamorous job in the world! I wanted to work as a reporter - get
out of the studios and into the community. I moved on and became a writer/broadcaster with CBC Radio in the Maritimes, working in Fredericton, New
Brunswick. I co-produced a national program called "The Food
Show" from studios on the prairie lands of Saskatchewan. Contract
stints also took me to Ottawa, Windsor and back to Toronto.
In the early nineties I found a job I
adored, and the fact that it was located in one of the most remote areas
of Canada only made the experience richer. I produced and hosted a daily
current affairs show on the southern tip of Baffin Island, in a town called
Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay). It was an exciting time, leading up to
the creation of Nunavut, Canada's newest territory. Iqaluit is now the
capital of Nunavut. Living amongst the Inuit people, whose ancestors
have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years, was an incredible
experience. People with names such as "Kootoo" and "Jaypeetee"
always gave me straight answers. They also taught me a lot about
not taking life too seriously.
I returned to Ontario for family reasons in 1998. Soon afterwards I decided to take another path in the road. I took up a year's study of Interactive Multimedia technology at Niagara College. Most of my
(much) younger peers were masters of the universe when they logged on to
their computers. I held my own though, and by year's end won a juried
competition for multimedia productions. Wonders never cease.
After graduating I started writing online content for websites, and continue today with my own business - Writings by Whiteside.
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