Boom, Bust and Housing

Boom, Bust and Housing

Maclean’s, April 27, 1998 by John Schofield Calgary realtor Rudy Spiess has some sage advice for prospective buyers these days: remember your chequebook. In the country’s busiest markets, hungry buyers are prowling the streets in search of real estate, and...
Lieutenant-Governor’s Literacy Programs

Lieutenant-Governor’s Literacy Programs

Education Today (Ontario Public School Boards Association), Spring 2008 By John Schofield The carefully printed notes are short, but the gratitude they express is sincere and touchingly sweet. Penned by aboriginal children in some of Northern Ontario’s most...
Saving Our Schools

Saving Our Schools

Maclean’s, May 14, 2001, Vol. 114, Iss. 20; pg. 22, 4 pgs By John Schofield On a bright spring day in Toronto, a weather-beaten candy wrapper blew silently across the schoolyard at Valley Park Middle School, disappearing into piles of trash. The place was a mess...
WSIB Redesign for ywap.ca: Storyboard and Script

WSIB Redesign for ywap.ca: Storyboard and Script

Feb. 13, 2008 by John Schofield Illustrations: Bojan Redzic Frame 1 ERIC OLIVIERI’S STORY Frame 2 Hi, my name’s Eric Olivieri. I’m 17. I was working in a factory last summer, and I got crushed by a 10-ton steel door. Frame 3 My supervisor told me to...