Tavia Grant is a journalist on the investigative team of the Globe and Mail. In recent years, she has covered topics such as boarding schools, migrant workers, deaths, refugee flows, and the gender pay gap. nn
Her work with colleagues about residential school abuses and the Catholic church won a Michener Award, Canada’s highest honour for public service journalism, in 2021. She was part of a team that won the 2019 National Newspaper Award for Project of the Year for a series of stories about key data gaps in Canada. Tavia received the Landsberg Award in 2017 and was a co-winner in 2023 in recognition of her coverage of women’s equality issues. Her 2014 stories on the health risks from asbestos exposure put pressure on the federal government to change its policies about the deadly mineral.
Previously, he worked for a decade for the Globe’s Report on Business, where he covered topics ranging from inflation and global industry to sources of income inequality, cash markets, and labor.
Prior to joining The Globe, Tavia worked as a reporter for Bloomberg News in Zurich and Toronto. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Development and Spanish and has lived in Switzerland, Belize, Ecuador and Spain.