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  • April 15, 2025 Can AI brain implants make us smarter?

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  • March 12, 2024 Pocketing medical AI: Nature Medicine March 12 2024

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  • December 7, 2023 STAT Dec 7 2023 – AI and reproductive freedom: The big tech threat

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  • August 28, 2023 Trashing nature for highway land speculation: Toronto Star Aug 28 2023

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  • May 12, 2023 Canada fails to curb pharma costs

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  • April 13, 2023 Why big tech grabs your health data

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  • February 25, 2023 Nature vs. Ontario’s Superhighway Plan

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PAUL C. WEBSTER


Recent Publications

Culture

The Treasure Seeker: Saving Russia’s Hermitage Museum

Saturday Night Magazine
May 5, 2001

The Treasure Seeker Saturday Night

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Who Stole Canadian History?

This Magazine
March 24, 2000

Who Stole Canadian History This Mag March 2000

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PAUL C. WEBSTER

Paul Webster is a freelance writer and documentary film director based in Argentina and Canada.

He has reported from more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Eurasia.

Paul's work in film has appeared on the Arte, BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, Discovery, National Geographic, Slice, SWR and Vision Television networks.

Among the awards for Paul’s writing listed below, he has also won four national magazine awards.

At the University of Toronto, Paul teaches Canada’s only course in freelance science, medicine and public health writing. To enrol, or for more information, click here.

Awards

Corporate Canada’s Indigenous Agonies – SABEW 2020 Business Awards Honourable Mention

Report on Business Magazine, February 22, 2019
AwardsBusinessDiseases of NeglectEnvironmentIndigenous Business RightsIndigenous HealthInternational Development

“Big Pharma vs Everyone”: Winner — 2017 Sanofi Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism

Report on Business Magazine, August 17, 2017
Access to Affordable MedicinesAwardsDrug PoliticsGeriatric HealthHealthcare Politics

Untreated prison hepatitis: Winner — 2016 Michener-Deacon Investigative Journalism Fellowship

Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 14, 2016
Access to Affordable MedicinesAwardsDiseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsHealthcare in PrisonsHealthcare PoliticsHepatitis NeglectIndigenous Health

Adverse Reactions — 2014 Western Magazine Award Winner

September 26, 2014
Awards

Adverse Reactions: Winner – 2014 Sanofi Pasteur Medal of Excellence in Health Research Journalism

May 22, 2014
Access to Affordable MedicinesAddiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaAwardsCanadian Science PolicyDiseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsHealthcare PoliticsMedically-Induced Opioid AddictionScience

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