David Staples

60 Degrees of Separation

The Arctic is North America's biggest beat in terms of land mass. Veteran reporter David Staples describes what it's like to work as a foreign correspondent without ever leaving Canada

If you try to communicate with someone on the other side of a busy street, you can shout all you want, but something gets lost in the translation. This is what it?s like covering the Arctic from a southern city, but it?s the way most major Canadian news organizations do the job. The sometimes-strained nature […]