Produced for Life in Quebec
Bleu Pelouse – jazz, blues, folk, swing – it’s all in there
Profile of a local Quebec City band with a unique old-school proto-folk/jazz sound whose members got their start as buskers.
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Ruby P.
Quebec City, QC, Canada
About
I am a freelance print and radio journalist in English-language media in Quebec City. I am bilingual in English and French, and I speak basic Spanish and Haitian Creole. I currently work with CBC Radio, The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, International Figure Skating Magazine, Life in Québec Magazine (and website) and the French-language monthly Les Immigrants de la Capitale. I have had clips in the Montreal Gazette and La Presse. I have experience as a travel writer, copy editor and interpreter; I specialize in covering international development (especially as it relates to Africa), intercultural relations, GLBT issues, poverty issues, religion, mental health and obscure sports, although I enjoy wrapping my head around new issues. I can edit sound. I do not have a car. I am working on improving my photography, videography and video editing skills as well as languages.
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Produced for Life in Quebec
The Demystifiers
Profile of a community organization that sends presenters into schools to explain sexual diversity to teenagers through the life stories of the presenters.
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A Dubious Paradise: GLBT asylum seekers search for better future in Paris
Issues involving refugees, asylum seekers and stateless people have always fascinated me, especially the risks these men and women take and the reasons they decide to take those risks. With this story, I wanted to lay out the various catch-22's in which these people find themselves-- particularly bureaucratic and religious-- to promote empathy and public understanding of their situation.
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Elite racers break new ground in winter triathlon
A new form of triathlon made its world premiere in Quebec City. As a trilingual (English-French-Russian) speaker at this triathlon I was the only person able to interview all the athletes, including Pavel Andreev of Russia, surprise bronze medalist with an interesting backstory. A colleague and I did a total of 4 stories on this and the series is up for an award.
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Produced for Madavor Media
Romain Haguenauer: A New Era
I interviewed a noted ice dance choreographer in French and produced a piece in English for a well-known figure skating magazine.
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Michel Pleau, Canada's Parliamentary poet laureate
Profile of a French-language poet, his work and ideas for an English-speaking audience. Long-listed for a Quebec Community Newspaper Association award.
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