The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias wrote her treeware column today on Kim Bolan. She's the Vancouver Sun reporter who's toiled long and hard on the Air India bombing file.

An excerpt:

Wearing a shawl given to her by Lata Pada, a Toronto dancer who lost her husband Vishnu and daughters Brind and Arati, Bolan told the students that she kept on the story even when her editors tired of it.

"You have to keep hitting people with the relevant facts; you have to keep the story alive," she said. "You have to continue the fight in the newsroom."

Which is where Bolan's "guerrilla journalism" comes into play. It's not like investigative journalism, which is too often conjured up to win awards. Nor is it like muckraking, which is to uncover scandal about public figures.

Guerrilla journalism, insisted Bolan, is what a reporter wages when she "sniffs out a story,'' grabs a hold of it and never lets go until "the whole truth comes out."

The column also mentions how she came under fire from a lot of Sikh students for not writing anything "positive" about their religion.