Restless Builder of Sacred Order 

Who I Am

I live in North Bay with my wife and our son, and our second child is on the way. My interest in this city’s future begins with the life we are building here and the community our children will inherit.

I built our home. I was my own general contractor, hired the trades and worked alongside them. Building a small home for our family meant making careful decisions about what we could afford, what mattered and where we could keep things simple. That experience is where my push for attainable housing comes from, and my interest in what the City does with the land it already owns. I want more people to have a realistic path into a modest starter home and the stability that comes with it.

I have run NCL Media, my film and photography business, since 2016, working with couples, homeowners and local businesses. Much of my working life has been spent telling other people’s stories and documenting the homes, commitments and livelihoods they have built. Running a small business has taught me to be clear about what I am promising, pay attention to costs and answer for what I deliver. I am bilingual in English and French.

I write about family, nutrition and mineral biology, and I am the author of The Courage of Restraint, a book about protecting the relationships and responsibilities that give life its meaning. Its subjects include marriage, fatherhood, home, faith, friendship and community. Much of that writing grew out of learning to carry those responsibilities in my own life. I keep returning to the conditions people need to stay healthy, remain present for their families and build something that lasts.

I am God fearing, and the wife He placed alongside me has shaped how I see the world. She is one of the people who taught me to look for the person a decision lands on, and to ask what would make it fairer. That matters when a household is already stretched, when a parent is exhausted or when someone has little room left to absorb another cost. My faith requires me to examine my own conduct as seriously as I examine the institutions I want to change.

Why I Am Running

I have written about protecting what matters. Running for council means placing those ideas under consequence, where residents can judge the decisions I make and the work I follow through on.

The City plans important work and leaves it unfinished. A retention pond for Chippewa Creek was identified as necessary in 2009 and still has not been built, while basements keep flooding. Our treated water tested between 47 and 66 nanograms per litre for PFAS in 2025, against Health Canada’s objective of 30, and permanent treatment is still not built. Those delays land on people in their homes, their household budgets and their confidence in the water coming out of the tap.

I did the homework before asking for the job. Every figure in my eight-plank platform is traced to a public document. When I could not find one, I said so. Writing the DNSSAB plank, I looked for what ambulance offload delays cost us, found no public number, and wrote that on the page instead of guessing. The note is still there.

I want overdue infrastructure addressed before we take on further expansion, and public spending judged by whether it strengthens the households paying for it. That requires clear priorities, visible decisions and the willingness to stop spending when something is failing to deliver.

I will move to publish every consultant contract, make council votes searchable by name, push for recorded votes at the DNSSAB board, and require every service the City funds to show what it costs and what it delivers.

I will not vote for something I cannot explain to you afterward.