Daniel Gawthrop

Daniel Gawthrop is a Vancouver writer, the author of the novel "Double Karma," published this spring by Cormorant Books, and five non-fiction titles, including "The Rice Queen Diaries" (2005) and "The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican's Assault on Reason, Compassion and Human Dignity" (Arsenal Pulp, 2013). He still plays left wing for the Cutting Edges, the Vancouver-based 2SLGBTQ+ hockey club he co-founded in 1993.
National Hockey League Pride Nights: Not Everyone on the Ice is a Dinosaur
Cutting Edges left-winger (and author) Dan Gawthrop joins Pittsburgh Penguins exec Brian Burke in backing Hockey Pride Nights, as Canada’s national sport leaves behind the age of the social dinosaurs.
Read MoreAfter the Asshole Apocalypse
From the Archives: How to keep thinking and acting during and after the Apocalypse. Daniel Gawthrop has some practical suggestions.
Read MoreOmar Khadr: Window on the Canadian Soul
Thinking through the controversy over a child soldier.
Read MoreNanaimo Pride: The Resistance of Memory
Nanaimo, B.C. held its first Pride Parade. But when?
Read MoreAn Independent Newsroom Where Self-Censorship Rules
Dan Gawthrop reports from Burma. The post-dictatorship press looks “independent,” but what about the big story on which it is tip-toeing the government line?
Read MoreThe Lady, the Cult, and the Dented Halo
Dan Gawthrop on the future of Myanmar, and its internationally renowned political figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, “The Lady.”
Read MoreA “gay-friendly pope”? Let’s hope.
Dan Gawthrop is keeping an eye on Pope Francis.
Read MoreThe Vancouver Sun: Death by a Thousand Buyouts
Dan Gawthrop investigates the Vancouver Sun story that the Vancouver Sun can’t print.
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