Writing
Selected Publications by Cynthia Brouse
"Journey Through the Labyrinth" (making breast cancer treatment decisions), Homemakers, October 2007
"Cancer's Forgotten Faces" (breast cancer in young moms), Chatelaine, June 2007
"Lessons from Adele" (coping with cancer as a single woman), Chatelaine, April 2007
"3 of a Kind: From Food to Fashion, It's Easy Being Green" (Bullfrog Power, Rowe Farm Meats, Lileo), Green Living, Spring/Summer 2006
"The Cricket Connection" (Betty Stone and the Roden Public School cricket team, by Betty Stone as told to Cynthia Brouse), Homemakers, November 2005
"Indian Summer" (Neighbourhoods column on Gerrard India Bazaar), Toronto Life, September 2005
"How's Your Gaydar?" (the phonetics of gay speech), Saturday Night, February 2005
"Home Is Where the Graveyard Is" (memoir of Massey, Ontario), HighGrader, Fall 2004
"Death By Stereotype" (Observer column on snowmobiling), Saturday Night, Winter 2004 (honourable mention, National Magazine Awards, 2004)
"The Maud Squad" (L.M. Montgomery as pop-culture phenomenon), Saturday Night, September 2002 (two honourable mentions, National Magazine Awards, 2002)
"STORM's Trooper: Conservation activist Debbe Crandall celebrates a victory on the Oak Ridges Moraine," Seasons, Spring 2002
"Home alone" (essay on buying a house as a single woman), Elle Canada, November 2001
"Gross encounters" (cover story on Paul Gross/Due South and fan culture), Toronto Life, May 2000 (winner of gold National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, plus honourable mention in Arts & Entertainment category)
"What are we doing for Christmas?" (family memoir), Canadian Living, December 1999
"Do you know what your reader's thinking?" (report on Magazines University '99 seminar), Canadian Magazine Publishers Association Newsletter, July 1999
"Tourists of the world, unite" (travel memoir), The Globe and Mail, January 30, 1999
"Internet authors put TV buddies in unusual romances" (slash fiction), The Globe and Mail, August 8, 1998
"What I remember" (memoir of friend's death from AIDS), The Church-Wellesley Review (on-line), Winter 1998
"Cut teacher 'perks'? Let's gut education and be done" ("Talking Point" column), The Toronto Star, Feb. 27, 1996
"Thanks, but I'd rather walk" ("Facts & Arguments" column on recreational walking), The Globe and Mail, December 13, 1990
"The snubs that rub: why fact-checkers get ticked off" (guest column), Masthead, February 1990
"Winners: Alva Atkinson has a case of terminal cleanliness" (Nightingale Computer Cleaning Services), The Financial Post Moneywise Magazine, September 1988
"Policewomen on patrol" (article adaptation), Reader's Digest, August 1988
"The Genesis Foundation" (women's reproductive health care), Toronto Life Fashion, Holiday 1987
"The medium is the message" (voice training), Images, October 1987
"Blueprint for better living" (YWCA Well-Being Program), Toronto Life Fashion, Fall 1987
"Y's Advice" (YMCA Youth Enterprise Centres), The Financial Post Moneywise Magazine, September 1987
"Alice Klein and Michael Hollett: Toronto's alternative press gang" (NOW magazine), Canadian Business, August 1987
"I'm writing a romance novel," Images, April/May 1987
"Secret Garden: sweet scents of success in giftware," Canadian Business, December 1986
"Bringing the romance novel home," Maclean's, July 21, 1986
"Upgrading the datebook" (Filofax), Maclean's, March 3, 1986
"The Nashville Network," Starweek (The Toronto Star), September 22, 1984
"In the bag: two sisters sew up the market for travel accessories" (Maggi-B), Canadian Business, August 1984
"A flock of seagulls: one man's flying fantasy soars to success" (For the Birds wooden mobiles), Canadian Business, April 1984
"Technical turbulence: can portable computers zap airplane systems?" Canadian Business, March 1984
Various feature articles, AIDS Committee of Toronto Volunteer Bulletin,1992-1995
Broadcast
"Down at the Mouth" (memoir of beach at Massey, Ontario), Fresh Air, CBC Radio One, aired October 3, 2004
Reprints
"The Cricket Connection" (Betty Stone and the Roden Public School cricket team, by Betty Stone as told to Cynthia Brouse), reprinted in Reader's Digest, July 2007
"The medium is the message" (voice training), reprinted in print and electronic formats for the programs and services of the Saskatchewan Government Correspondence School, 1998
"Cut teacher 'perks'? Let's gut education and be done," reprinted in Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald, April 10, 1996
"Secret Garden: sweet scents of success in giftware," reprinted in Student Activity Book to Accompany Managing for Excellence: The Fundamentals of Canadian Business Management, by Lori Cranson, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1989
"The medium is the message" (voice training), reprinted in Exploring Perspectives (high school English textbook), by Neil Graham, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1991
"Thanks, but I'd rather walk," (Globe and Mail column on recreational walking), reprinted in Reader's Digest, June 1991