Dawn Rae Downton

Independent writer, journalist

Chronic pain, Opioids, Opioid crisis, Privacy, Security, Wireless engineering, Surveillance technology

Media

I don’t use fentanyl to get high. It lets me live without chronic pain

Supreme Court won't hear Organigram tainted marijuana class action case

N.S. court reduces scope of lawsuit over tainted Organigram cannabis

DAWN RAE DOWNTON: If you can’t wear a mask, sadly you don’t make the (hair)cut

'A friendship grew': Yanofsky remembered as the heart of the literary community

Biography

Dawn Rae Downton has a PhD in English from Dalhousie. She has run three large NGOs: the Halifax YWCA, the Writers' Federation of NS, and Planned Parenthood BC. She has been a freelance investigative journalist for more than thirty years. She's written and published three books internationally and has contributed news and commentary to all of Canada's important media outlets as well as to major outlets in the U.S.

Expertise

  • Chronic pain
  • Opioids
  • Opioid crisis
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Wireless engineering
  • Surveillance technology