Chris Selley is a Toronto-based journalist. Tart Cider is his five-year-old blog, which used to be read by thousands of people and may be again some day. Why is Chris Selley talking about himself in the third person? Because it seemed apropos when he started writing this, okay? Anyway, until recently, he was an Assistant Editor at Maclean’s, Canada’s newsweekly, where he wrote on a great many different subjects for both the website and the magazine proper. He now blogs for the National Post, where you will find his popular roundup of the nation’s political punditry—Full Pundit. His services are currently available to the highest and/or most interesting bidder(s). He can be reached at (416) 565-9967 or by e-mail.

Selected writing samples:

• “White pride mom” (News feature on a Winnipeg white supremacist fighting to get her kids back, and whether child services agencies should intervene based on extreme political beliefs.)
• “Can Lady Grey be saved?” (Business feature on the renaissance of Greyhound Bus Lines, and North American bus travel in general.)
• “Goodbye to Wi-Fi” (Business feature on the collapse of various free municipal wireless internet schemes.)
• “Like Woodstock, but with buffets” (Entertainment feature on rock and roll cruises run by Sixthman, an Atlanta promoter.)
• “Welcoming back Khadr” (News feature on the feasibility of trying Omar Khadr in Canada.)
• “Not even close” (News feature post-morteming the No victory in Ontario’s electoral reform referendum.)
• “A little bit of history—repeating” (News feature on a highly predictable surge in refugee claims from Eastern European Roma.)
• “Kidnaps and catnaps” (News feature on a series of hilariously inept kidnappings in British Columbia.)
• “Fact Check: the ban handguns campaign” (News feature looking at Toronto mayor David Miller’s statistical justification for banning handguns.)