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. 🙏 https://t.co/5cUyr9BCpe

Glad to see journalism students @JSchool_CU take the initiative to catch up with Premier Doug Ford after he helped launch Carleton's new nursing program. When the Premier slipped out a side entrance with no media availability, journalism students scrummed him in the garage. Bravo

In the studio today with @b_popps for a special project. It was an absolute blast!

A portrait of Winston Churchill used to hang in one of the most famous buildings in Canada’s capital — until it was stolen. @b_popps tells the story of how The Roaring Lion was lost, then found again

Just finished reading @MikeFinkel's excellent THE ART THIEF, and found the perfect digestif... Here's @b_popps on the theft of one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill's Roaring Lion portrait, from the Chateau Laurier. https://t.co/gFuWubI8Yh

Journo job alert: Permanent journalist position in @TorontoStar's Ottawa bureau is open

#Outsider by @b_popps has been shortlisted for the 2024 Ottawa Book Awards (@OBA_PDL) in the English non-fiction category! Congratulations! 🎉

It wasn’t the cheap frame that gave the forgery away. Nor was it the photocopied image of the scowling Winston Churchill inside. “It was the way it hung, crooked against the dark oak-panelled wall—a slight tilt, down and to the right,” writes @b_popps. https://t.co/8xKjYnBjFv

In this new investigative story for The Walrus, @JSchool_CU professor @b_popps begs the question: Why did the theft of an iconic piece of art take so long to solve? https://t.co/8xKjYnBjFv

In the eighty-three years since it was taken, The Roaring Lion, a portrait of Winston Churchill, has become one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century. Its theft and forgery sent shockwaves through the art world.

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.

It turned out police had tracked the portrait halfway around the world but were struggling to get it back, until now. 📸@davidkawai

I was about a year into my reporting and was weaving this story together for @thewalrus when we were tipped that the photo had been found. That was July of this year but the details of what had happened were too vague to confirm. 📸@davidkawai

I was fascinated by the photo’s significance to history, by the Ottawa photographer who had captured it on a winter’s night 83-years ago, and by the baffling narrative of the theft and forgery. 📸@davidkawai

Soon no one seemed to be talking about what had happened to the portrait or why it mattered. I first started reporting on the mysterious disappearance of The Roaring Lion (one of the world’s most iconic photographs) in the summer of 2023. 📸@davidkawai

On August 19, 2022 a security officer at the Chateau Laurier called police to notify them that a priceless photo of Winston Churchill had been stolen from a wall in the hotel and replaced with a fake. A media frenzy ensued, then it died down. https://t.co/ON0DtNkkf8

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

Tremendous reporting from @b_popps, who has been tracking this story—in these final days, all the way to Italy—for nearly a year. https://t.co/YdTRjdQZ9O

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