He joined the faculty at Carleton in 2003 after spending 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper. Allan worked for ten years as a correspondent for The Star on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, reporting on foreign affairs, defence and immigration issues. He first reported from Rwanda for The Star in 1996 during the mass exodus of Rwandan refugees from eastern Zaire. He visited Rwanda again in 1998 to prepare a series of feature articles. Over the years he has also chronicled Romeo Dallaire's career in a series of reports for The Star. In January 2004, Allan travelled to Arusha, Tanzania, to report on Dallaire's testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the military trial. © 2006 Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication DESIGN: SMDESIGN