Columnists
The Globe and Mail’s award-winning columnists are a fundamental pillar of our coverage. They range in their interests from politics, to world affairs, to business, to the arts, to the way we live. No matter the issue, they are always in the middle of our national discourse. They are trusted by our readers and followed by our nation’s decision-makers. Influential, provocative, and engaging, our columnists provide insights and analysis that can’t be found elsewhere, making them a prime destination for Globe readers.
All Columnists
Campbell Clark has been a political writer in The Globe and Mail’s Ottawa bureau since 2000. Before that he worked for The Montreal Gazette and the National Post. He writes about Canadian politics and foreign policy.
Andrew Coyne is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. He has contributed to a wide range of publications in Canada and abroad, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is also a weekly panelist on CBC’s The National.
Marcus Gee is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. He has previously worked as an editorial writer, foreign affairs columnist, Asian business reporter and features writer for the paper.
Tony Keller is a columnist with The Globe and Mail. He was previously the paper's editorials editor from 2013 to 2022.
Marsha Lederman is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver and was previously The Globe’s Western Arts Correspondent. Her memoir Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed was a national bestseller.
Lawrence Martin is a Washington-based public affairs columnist and the author of ten books, including six national best sellers. He served as the Globe's bureau chief in Washington, Montreal and Moscow, where he opened the paper's first bureau in 1985. He has been a columnist for The Globe since 2002.
Sandra Martin has been The Globe and Mail's Standards Editor since 2023. She previously was the Head of Newsroom Development at The Globe.
Gary Mason began his journalism career in British Columbia in 1981, working as a summer intern for Canadian Press. One of his first assignments was covering the last days of the province's favourite son, Terry Fox.
André Picard is a health reporter and columnist at The Globe and Mail, where he has been a staff writer since 1987. He is also the author of three bestselling books.
Shannon Proudfoot is a feature writer in The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau. Before joining The Globe, she was the Ottawa bureau chief for Maclean's and wrote for Sportsnet magazine, Postmedia News and the Ottawa Citizen.
Eric Reguly is The Globe's European bureau chief based in Rome and writes a weekly column for the Report on Business. Since 2007, when he moved to Europe, he has primarily covered economic and financial stories, ranging from the euro zone crisis and the bank bailouts to the rise and fall of Russia's oligarchs.
Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist.
Tanya Talaga is an Anishinaabe journalist, author and speaker. A five-time nominee for the Michener Award in public service journalism, she also has won two National Newspaper Awards during her 20-year career. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, the first Anishinaabe woman to be so.
Kate Taylor is the visual art critic at The Globe and Mail and a columnist in the arts section.
Rita Trichur is an award-winning journalist. She is a senior business writer and columnist in the Report on Business. Her previous roles at The Globe and Mail include senior editor, financial services editor, and Canadian business columnist for the Report on Business Magazine.
Robyn Urback is a current affairs columnist with The Globe and Mail. She previously worked as the editor of the opinion page at CBC News, and, before that, as a columnist and editorial board member at the National Post.
Andrew Willis is a business columnist for the Report on Business, based in Toronto.
Columnist Konrad Yakabuski writes on politics, policy and business for The Globe and Mail’s Comment section and Report on Business.
In Memoriam
Michael Babad was a Report on Business editor and co-author of three business books. He had been with Report on Business for several years, and had also been a reporter and editor at The Toronto Star, The Financial Post and United Press International. He died as an active staff member of The Globe in 2020.
FROM THE GLOBE AND MAIL PHOTO ARCHIVE. September 3, 1972 -- EATS HIS WORDS -- With absolutely no appetite whatever, Globe and Mail sports columnist Dick Beddoes is eating his words, which expressed his addled belief that Team Canada would beat the Russian National Hockey team in all the eight games of the Canada-Russia Summit Series. Pravda correspondent, Konstantin Gueivandov shred the Canadian journalist's column into a bowl of borscht, to the delight of Russian players (from left) Vladimir Vikulov, Alexander Gusev and Alexander Sidelnikov at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Toronto on Sept. 3, 1972. Team Canada lost the first game of the series, 7-3, in Montreal on Sept. 2, 1972.
Photo by Tibor Kolley / The Globe and Mail.