'A little like Game of Thrones': How the Royal Family came to rule

We may associate the Royal Family with strict protocols and stiff upper lips, but King Charles III and the House of Windsor can trace their lineage back through centuries of bloody wars and brutal power struggles to 1066, when the illegitimate son of a duke and grandson of a tanner ascended the throne. I tried to somehow distill a thousand years worth of dynastic lineage into as many words in this overview that traces the Windsors back to William the Conqueror.

I cover a broad range of topics as a freelance general news writer at CTVNews.ca. From the serious to the absurd, you can find a (regularly updated) selection of those stories here as well.

CTVNews.ca, General News, Business, Canada, Economy, Small BusinessS HoSeptember 16, 2022

Grieving family says Canada abandoned son in Florida prison

I wrote about Sacha Bond, a Quebec man who had been in a Florida prison since he was 19 - nearly half his life. Due to a series of events, he ended up in a coma, still chained to his hospital bed and under 24/7 guard. From the length of his sentence and the family’s efforts to bring him back to Canada to serve his time, to the state of U.S. prisons and issues around mental health and incarceration, it’s a tragic story on many levels. Sacha Bond died three days after this story was written, on Aug. 16, 2020.

CTVNews.ca, Canada, General NewsS HoAugust 13, 2020Sacha Bond, Incarceration, U.S. Prisons