[2] Off got her start in journalism as a staff writer for The Gazette, the student newspaper at the University of Western Ontario.

[4] Previously a documentary reporter for The National, where she covered international affairs, Off also hosted the political debate series counterSpin on CBC Newsworld.

[7] Off has also written books on the Canadian military, including The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle (2000) and The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War (2005, ISBN 0-679-31294-3).

In 2006, she released Bitter Chocolate, a book about the corruption and human rights abuses associated with the cocoa industry.

She wrote that French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who was kidnapped in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, had been murdered for exposing Ivorian government corruption in connection with cocoa.