Articles:
Shane has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest (worldwide), Saturday Night, En Route, The Beaver, Equinox, Toronto Life, Shift, Report on Business, Elm Street, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and The National Post. Here are a few excerpts.
Team Spirit
Elm Street, February-March 2001
This article won a Silver Medal, National Magazine Award, in 2001, and was the starting point for the “Team Spirit” documentary which Shane wrote for the CTV national television network. It tells the uplifting story of the remarkable Ojibwa hockey coach Ted Nolan, and his equally remarkable (and controversial) national native hockey team, Team Indigenous.
Ted Nolan (photo by Chris Wahl)
Falconer Ulrich Watermann and one of his tools of the trade, a bald eagle
Photo by Rob Nelson
As the Crow Flies
Elm Street, December 2002
Nominated for two National Magazine Awards, this article investigates why hundreds of thousands of crows have begun invading certain towns in North America in the early 21st century. Shane entered this Hitchcockian world like a veritable ornithological Sherlock, and came up with some startling answers. Afterwards, he couldn’t stop these amazing, much-maligned birds from flying around and roosting in the rest of his work.
cover photo by Kevin Kelly Rulers of the Dohyo
Equinox, cover story November 1998
Investigate the amazing realm of sumo in this National Magazine Award nominated article. Shane goes to Vancouver to meet the quarter-ton men who battle on the “sacred dohyo” and sits so close to the action that he is in danger of being squashed. Fat, slow guys in clumsy wrestling matches? Hardly. Shane learns the incredible facts behind this ancient art, practiced by some of the most dangerous martial artists on earth.
Crème Brule
Shift, cover story, May 1998
Shane visits “Cool Britannia” when London was really swinging at the beginning of the Tony Blair era, and finds that one of its leaders is a guy from Winnipeg named Tyler Brule, conducting trends with his black-clothed employees in an office overlooking The Thames. Shane and his photographer, Kevin Kelly, infiltrate Brule’s “Wallpaper” life, even getting inside the handsome, style maven’s London flat. Cool doesn’t begin to describe his world.
The Great Farini Walks Again
The Globe and Mail, January 18, 2000
The world’s greatest high-wire walker, Jay Cochrane, comes to Port Hope, Ontario to re-enact the legendary Great Farini’s debut for a television documentary Shane is writing. A crowd of 10,000 gather and Jay gets off to an awe-inspiring start. Then rain threatens and Jay encounters problems. Shane watches it all from the edge of a building, close to Cochrane, able to talk to him while he walks, frightened out of his mind.
