My name is Craig Desson. I'm a producer, documentary maker and journalist at CBC.

I've also worked at The Toronto Star, TVO and Journalists for Human Rights. My work has won awards at The Third Coast International Audio Festival and The New York Radio Festival. I was a 2017 Arthur F. Burns journalism fellow.

• Whose Condo Is It, Anyway? Did I buy a condo on stolen land? How purchasing my first home made me question property rights, Doc Project

• As Google for Education tools enter classrooms across Canada, some parents are asking to opt-out A special one hour episode of Spark about Google in Canada's education system, I co-produced and reported for Spark.

• Hotel Limbo Documentary for The Doc Project about The Toronto Plaza Hotel, which was home to more then 1,000 Syrian refugees.

• The man who brings astronomy to downtown Montreal Documentary for The Sunday Edition about a Montrealer who is bringing astronomy to the street.

• 'We didn't think America would be like this' Why Somalis facing deportation are turning to Canada Documentary for The Doc Project about ICE deportations in Minneapolis.

• Utopia on the prairie A radio documentary for the Sunday Edition about underemployed Ontarians who move to a ghost town in Saskatchewan.

• We're Still Here A documentary about refugee camps in Greece.

• Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People — Winner of best short doc at Third Coast.

• Walking with Kaie Kellough in Montreal Take a walk through Kaie Kellough's Montreal of poetry, seditious cafes and immigrant vitality — CBC Arts

	<li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twRySBDM1k&" target="blank">The bomb defuser</a> The separatist group FLQ began planting bombs around Montreal in 1963, forcing the police to quickly organize a bomb squad.  Robert Côté was one of the founding members.

— CBC Arts

	<li><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1872813123989/" target="blank">It's Saturday night in Montreal and food-delivery drivers rule the roads</a> After the 8 p.m. curfew sets in, foodies get their fixes with the help of people like Marie Beaulieu

— CBC News

<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/radiocbc/videos/10156361907136913/" target="blank">The ice carver</a> Immigrants often find it tough to land work in their field. But Ross Baisas makes it look easy. He's a wood carver in the Philippines and is now an award winning ice carver at the Montreal Casino.  — CBC News</p></li>


<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=461208221285161" target="blank">Cross-country kitty</a> Trucker Sean Litwack says having his cat Pouces on the road with him is "'the best thing that's ever happened to me." — CBC News</p></li>



<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=669374663480720" target="blank">The past, present and future for sale at Villeray shop</a> At Passé Présent Futur, shoppers can buy antiques from the past, present-day clocks and futuristic drones. — CBC News</p></li>




<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=310168819587645" target="blank">Tall business owner finds a small niche selling big shoes</a> Finding shoes that fit was a tall order for David Dubois, who is 6'11" and wears a shoe size 16. So he decided to start his own shoe store for big-footed people like him. — CBC News</p></li>



<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/radiocbc/videos/10156361907136913/" target="blank">Why so few people on Six Nations reserve have clean running water.</a> — Out in the Open, CBC Radio</p></li>


<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DocProjectCBC/videos/1987844198143922/"> Why my grandfather dissolved the Michel First Nation and renounced his Indian status </a>— Doc Project, CBC Radio</p></li>


<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DocProjectCBC/videos/1937322446529431/" target="blank">Operation Good Times</a>  When Faraj Mohyeddin was admitted to the hospital with terminal cancer, his daughter Samira wouldn't settle for the regular visiting hours and care regime. She moved in, and turned the last days of his life into a non-stop party. — Doc Project, CBC Radio</p></li>


<li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cbcdebaters/videos/1790586264317901/" target="blank"> Trash Talk:  Amanda Brooke Perrin vs. Nour Hadidi</a> —  The Debaters, CBC Radio</p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-prison-conditions-covid-19-human-rights-1.5545303" target="blank">Canada's prison watchdog calls out federal corrections for 'extreme' confinement as COVID-19 cases surge</a> — CBC News</p></li>


<li><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-jail-quarantine-controversy-covid-1.6088287" target="blank">Quebec COVID restrictions are loosening, but jails are still putting inmates in solitary to quarantine</a> — CBC News</p></li>

	<li><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/inside-ww2-internment-camp-montreal-1.5414940" target="blank">New tour of Montreal's Stewart Museum highlights its use as a WW2 internment camp</a> — CBC News</p></li>

• Quebec COVID restrictions are loosening, but jails are still putting inmates in solitary to quarantine — CBC News

<li><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-gaming-house-1.5129790">Go inside the Montreal house where gamers play, practise and live</a> — CBC News</p></li>

• How Montreal takes 300,000 truckloads of snow off the street every winter — CBC News

• Habitat 67, modèle d’une nouvelle génération d'appartements en Asie French translation by Radio-Canada of a CBC News feature

<li><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/privacy-blog/2015/05/what-happens-when-you-request-your-csis-file.html" target="blank">I asked CSIS for its file on me. Here's what I got</a> — The last part of a series for the Star where I used the Privacy Act to request documents about myself. — The Toronto Star</p></li>

• Esports program launches at Montreal high school for aspiring pro-gamers — CBC News

• Here's a list of well-known men in Canada called out for alleged sexual misconduct since Weinstein — Day 6, CBC Radio

• What's going on underneath @RealDonaldTrump's tweets? A small investigation — Day 6, CBC Radio

• Toronto-made computer program exposes who’s tracking you — The Toronto Star

• A former toilet paper factory that 1,574 refugees call home: Photo essays about refugees in Greece. — CBC News

• Auto lenders quietly install a digital repo-man — The Toronto Star

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