I like to tell the story that I started my career in journalism at the age of ten or so, around the time John F. Kennedy was running for President. I created and sold a mimeographed newspaper up and down the main street of my Canadian hometown for a few cents a copy. I suppose what followed was the natural outcome of a childhood interest. I studied journalism at university, which led to thirty-five years as a foreign correspondent for Canadian television networks. My first posting was to the Middle East; that was in the late 1980s at the beginning of the Palestinian intifada, followed by the first Gulf war, followed by a succession of war zones over the decades—Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine. I was posted to Jerusalem, Paris, New Delhi, Washington, DC and London in various roles as correspondent, bureau chief, and chief international correspondent.

My documentary work included an examination of social upheaval in France in the 1990s; Death of a Princess, an investigative report into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and in 2022, an hour special on my return to Afghanistan under the Taliban, after an absence of ten years.

In 2024, I was honoured by The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television with the Gordon Sinclair Lifetime Achievement award for Broadcast journalism.

I currently live in Toronto with my wife, Canadian author and broadcaster Mellissa Fung.