Brett Popplewell
@b_popps
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Prof @JSchool_CU. Write @thewalrus @MotherJones @BW @torontolife @globeandmail @macleans etc. Author, latest book is called “Outsider” @harpercollinsca
Joined June 2009
Two days after its launch my new book - “Outsider: An old man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past” - has made it onto the national bestsellers list. Thank you everyone who has supported the book. 🙏
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RT @ProfAllan: Glad to see journalism students @JSchool_CU take the initiative to catch up with Premier Doug Ford after he helped launch Ca…
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RT @scottsimmie: In the studio today with @b_popps for a special project. It was an absolute blast!
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RT @thebigstoryfpn: A portrait of Winston Churchill used to hang in one of the most famous buildings in Canada’s capital — until it was sto…
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RT @Tol_stoy_an: Just finished reading @MikeFinkel's excellent THE ART THIEF, and found the perfect digestif... Here's @b_popps on the the…
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RT @Jleerankin: Journo job alert: Permanent journalist position in @TorontoStar's Ottawa bureau is open
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RT @HarperCollinsCa: #Outsider by @b_popps has been shortlisted for the 2024 Ottawa Book Awards (@OBA_PDL) in the English non-fiction categ…
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RT @thewalrus: It wasn’t the cheap frame that gave the forgery away. Nor was it the photocopied image of the scowling Winston Churchill ins…
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RT @thewalrus: In this new investigative story for The Walrus, @JSchool_CU professor @b_popps begs the question: Why did the theft of an ic…
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RT @thewalrus: In the eighty-three years since it was taken, The Roaring Lion, a portrait of Winston Churchill, has become one of the most…
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RT @hmrustad: The magazine has been working on this for more than a year. Here it is from @b_popps for @thewalrus: the full story of The Ro…
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My latest #longread can be read via @thewalrus. I’m a bit biased but I consider it the definitive read on what has been called the most scandalous art heist in 21st century Canada.
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When a famous portrait of Winston Churchill was stolen from the Chateau Laurier, the hotel staff were prime suspects. I was a year into reporting this story when I learned the portrait was in Italy. Here’s my inside story of a baffling art heist @thewalrus
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RT @cstarnino: Tremendous reporting from @b_popps, who has been tracking this story—in these final days, all the way to Italy—for nearly a…
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We were months into reporting this story when we were tipped that the priceless photo of Winston Churchill had been found. Here’s the definitive read on the wildest art heist in 21st century Canada. My latest via @thewalrus
How the brazen theft of an eighty-three-year-old photograph of Winston Churchill became the most mysterious art heist in twenty-first-century Canada:
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