Getting a free look inside an exciting OSINT software. Rolli is founded by a former CNN journalist, who connected with me because we both used to work for Voice of America. I can say that Rolli do offer discount codes for organizations who say they heard about Rolli through my posts.

Greetings from tiny Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where I bought my friend Matt Zalot a beer because he just switched from being a Canadian military officer to being a Canadian military reservist. Matt didn’t know what his future held after the military but now his future holds more military life.…….

Happy to say that, with the permission of the Nova Scotia Guard, I have added the Nova Scotia Guard to my LinkedIn page under "volunteering." The Nova Scotia Guard is the provincial government's volunteer corps for natural disasters. Some of my students were interested in signing up to volunteer too

LatinFax may be affected by rain, in which case seven of us will stick around Afri-fest under the tent!!

Anyone looking for us at Afri-fest, we’re the three people pictured here closest to the stage, plus me with this tasty bag of African donut puffs to share……….. Watching Ifo Ikede leading the drum circle with storytelling………

Networking with Generation Z at the Third Wednesday tech and media happy hour tonight…….. Well, my friends I showed up with and met here are all Millennials and Generation X but…….. Today’s networking haul were Generation Z. Invited them to my in-person discussion group…………

I befriended a Canadian military chaplain at the event today at the military base downtown. He’s agreed to be my September guest speaker in my in-person speaker series I’ve been organizing monthly since June 2025. I have a non-alcoholic beer in this photo as I teach in 30 minutes………..

Me today giving a talk in-person about higher education and OSINT, through DEFCON Halifax at the Volta co-working space. Almost 20 people showed up and it’ll be on YouTube. My last DEFCON Halifax talk, in February, about anti-hate OSINT, got over 200 views on YouTube………

Me hanging out with the other journalists waiting for PM Mark Carney to arrive. Talked to the local newspaper and Globe and Mail lots (the other writers), but met CBC and Global. Mélanie Joly is here. PM Carney arrives soon! Also talked to the US military guy here. He’s from Virginia………

A huge networking win this year was I met a Good Robot manager at an international trade conference…… Months later, a mentor messaged me yesterday with a photo of Good Robot’s newest non-alcoholic option, an IPA. So today I filled a reusable grocery bag with eight of the new non-alcoholic beer.…….

Welcome to the Jollof festival, a Nigerian food festival, the latest social outing of my in-person geopolitics MeetUp group that I’ve been organizing monthly since June 2025 (and now multiple times a month)……… I’m a little under-slept so I’m staying out of photos, but here’s our group for the outing

Today my lecture to the International Academy of Law and Mental Health conference started with me broadcasted into two conference rooms at the same time. I watched the wrong room slowly fill with people, with me still on screen, until the nice French Canadian tech lady fixed the issue.........

Hey! After I got a Naloxone kit for attending big music festivals, someone from my personal life helped me learn how to administer Naloxone in Hindi. PM me to get a copy, it's a several-page PDF that she just wrote up herself (with a section of it provided here as a sample, in case you have edits).

Enjoying attending a round table featuring Claire Zhang, Director, Quebec Chapter & Atlantic Canada at the Canada China Business Council (CCBC). This event was organized by the Canadian International Council (CIC), where I’m on the Halifax office board of directors.

Welcome to the latest in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group I’ve been organizing monthly since mid-2025…… Our guest speaker is Jeff White, talking about his work in politics. We have six attending today, the least in a year, but it is one of the first really warm days of the year outside……

Hey everyone! Check out the report "Living Planet Report Canada 2025," which was just randomly sent to me in a LinkedIn In-Mail by WWF-Canada. Lots of informative stuff. Link: wwf.ca/wp-content/u...

With Selena Atwell who is on the Board of Directors at Literacy Nova Scotia. Selana invited me to the Literacy Nova Scotia gala tonight. Maybe you should attend next year……. I just befriended Cindy Day!!!!

Welcome to our monthly in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group…… Going strong 12 months in a row, now expanded to two events a month for most of 2026……. Our guest speaker is Cintya Hein who is talking to us about politics in Brazil……. Cintya brought us homecooked treats from Brazil……

Happy to have journeyed today to Good Robot Brewing Company’s outdoor patio beer garden, to try how walkable it is to pick up their new .5% non-alcoholic beer. I was encouraged to try the new non-alcoholic option, when I met the marketing guy for Good Robot. A good .5%/.4% is hard to find…….

Had such a mind-expanding trip to Le Balcon D’Art in the Montreal satellite city of Longueuil……. I just love exploring Longueuil……… Got a print, and I was given free books that they give to all teachers………

Thanks to Toronto’s York University for hosting me today as a speaker at their American Psychological Association conference……. In this photo I’m holding tree bark handed out by one of my co-panelists! She was Czech and her presentation was about nature therapy…… There was a bug on my tree bark.

Got an authentic Georgian tarragon lemonade with my khinkali dumplings at Georgia House in Toronto…….. Conference badge pictured!

Meeting for a coffee in Toronto with celebrity Canadian spy Mubin Shaikh (now featured in the spy museum in Washington DC) and our friend Jess Ben Arosh who just got hired to do OSINT for EY……….

In-person diplomatic event with 50 heads of mission is over! Got the business cards of the ambassadors from Indonesia, Chad and Costa Rica. I’m now recruited to help plan an October event where the heads of African universities meet in Halifax…..

Was invited to an event of 50 diplomatic heads of mission…… So far got the card of the Indonesian ambassador, and I’m sitting with a retired Admiral and a retired military attache……. I nodded at the Swiss embassy delegation and the Malaysian ambassador and I waved at each other (long story)……..

Tonight the in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group is having a networking outing for African food to Mary’s African Cuisine……. People attending from Canada, Lebanon, Nigeria and Colombia………… In cybersecurity, tech, government and journalism (me)!

Here's me presenting by Zoom to an in-person conference at the University of Victoria, an international conference titled "Mad Pasts, Mad Presence." I had four questions directed toward me in the panel Q&A. I'm enthusiastic about watching the remaining presentations of the conference........

I was put to work at the Green Party AGM…….. because they don’t have a photographer!!! So I took a bunch of photos and sent them to Sean, the sound guy………..

Welcome to the latest in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp…….. This time it’s a Burger Week hangout with friends in cybersecurity………. We have two cybersecurity professionals, plus literally two former Army medics, a criminal investigator, and me, a mere journalist…… PM me to join next event………

Welcome to the latest speaker in the speaker series I’ve been organizing monthly since June 2025…… We have people here today from Canada, China, Lebanon and Brazil…….. Our speaker this month is Tasha Clowater, with US cybersecurity firm BeyondTrust……. Fresh off of ATLSECCON……..